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August 5
Get Back to the Activities You Once Loved With Physical Therapy!
Posted in UncategorizedCan’t Live Life on Your Own Terms? Turn to Physical Therapy for Help That oil painting you started way back when still awaits the finishing touches. You bought a guitar last year, but you can’t stand the thought of trying to play it. Your golf friends wonder if you’re ever going to join them for […]
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July 20
Headaches Can Ruin Your Day, Let Alone, Make It Difficult to Get Anything Done. PT Can Help!
Posted in UncategorizedDealing with headaches around the clock is incredibly frustrating, and can quickly become debilitating. Whether they are tension headaches or more traditional migraine headaches, waking up with the pain already present in your head only to feel it grow more intense and painful as the day goes on can interfere with whatever you have planned […]
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July 10
Don’t Spend the Rest of Your Life Taking Medicine to Control the Pain. Talk to Your Doctor About Physical Therapy!
Posted in UncategorizedOur bodies are amazing machines. Not only do they have the ability to heal and repair themselves, they can adapt to nearly any situation. That includes the types of things we put into them. Temporarily taking medicine to control your pain as you recover from an injury or surgery can be a viable part of […]
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June 20
3 Reasons It’s Important to Stay Active as You Age
Posted in UncategorizedWant to Stay Healthy for Life? Start by Staying Active “You’re only as young as you feel,” or so the saying goes. It might be more accurate, however, to say that you’re only as young as your health permits. When you see elderly people shuffling along on walkers or refusing to leave their favorite chair, […]
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June 10
Physical Therapy can help you ditch the pain meds!
Posted in Health & WellnessMillions of individuals live with chronic pain. To cope with everything from back and joint pain to debilitating pain from accidents, many people have turned to pain medication. Whether prescription or over-the-counter, there are several drawbacks to relying on medication to relieve pain. Pain pills can sometimes interact with other medications, they can be addictive, […]
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May 18
Pre and Post Surgical Rehab: What Is It, and Is It Really Important?
Posted in Health & WellnessScheduling Surgery? Don’t Forget the Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Rehab Surgery might not be as much of a certainty in life as death or taxes, but many of us will undergo some kind of surgical procedure. If you will be scheduling major surgery in the near future, give serious thought to scheduling two other important tasks: […]
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May 10
Get Rid of Your Chronic Back Pain! 5 Ways a Physical Therapist Can Help Relieve Your Pain
Posted in UncategorizedHow Physical Therapy Helps You Triumph Over Chronic Back Pain Does chronic back pain keep you from living the life you want? This debilitating symptom, which may be caused by a variety of underlying issues, may make you wish you could just spend the rest of your life in your recliner. Actually, however, you can […]
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April 20
4 Things To Do if You Wake Up Feeling Achy
Posted in Aches and Pains, Health & Wellness, Physical TherapyWhy are you feeling so achy and stiff in the morning? Could it be an old, ill-suited mattress? An unsupportive pillow? A poor sleeping position? Do you have an underlying health condition like osteoarthritis? What about dehydration? Maybe it’s a combination of these issues, or maybe it’s something else entirely. Whatever the reason, a.m. stiffness […]
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April 10
Does Your Desk Job Keep You Sedentary? Here’s How To Stay Active During the 9-5!
Posted in Aches and Pains, Health & Wellness, Physical TherapyOne of the many benefits of physical therapy is that it helps show you how physical activity is medicine! Our physical therapy team strongly believes that the human body was meant to move, and when it doesn’t, things start to break down. Unfortunately, the modern environment isn’t great for promoting regular physical activity. Many of […]
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March 20
Could Herniated Disc Be The Cause Of Your Back Pain?
Posted in UncategorizedHas anyone ever told you they have a “slipped disc”? This term is actually a misnomer, since discs don’t really “slip” but either degenerate, bulge, or herniate. Fortunately, a physical therapist can treat all these issues! The latter condition, called a disc herniation, occurs when the outer layer of the disc tears. This allows the […]
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