Health Blog Category: physical therapists
Manage Your Chronic Pain with the Help of Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy Can Help You Find the Relief You Have Been Seeking
Chronic back pain is typically defined as a pain that lasts for three months or longer. This type of pain may have developed for a variety of reasons, including spinal arthritis, aging, disc problems, or myofascial pain syndrome.
With spinal arthritis, a slow thinning of the cartilage inside the spine can result in pain. A herniated or bulging disc can also result in discomfort if it is compressing on the nerve.
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Move with Ease Once Again with Physical Therapy Treatments for Hip and Knee Pain!
The knee is considered to be a hinge joint while the hip is a ball-and-socket joint. They are both complex joints with a network of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and cartilage, all working together to keep you moving.
With these many moving parts, it’s not surprising that, as we age or engage in strenuous activity, we sometimes experience pain.
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Are You Doing Everything You Can for Your Health?
Do you move around every day? If not, you really should be! Getting regular exercise can increase your lifespan, improve your mood, help you maintain a healthy weight, and increase your strength, flexibility, endurance and balance.
Additionally, exercising can help you manage chronic pain and other health conditions that may be making life difficult.
Frequent physical activity is so important that our physical therapy team is always looking for tips to help our patients move.
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You Don’t Have to Go Through Life with Chronic Headaches
Headaches are a common issue that can plague everyone from pre-teens to retirees. However, when recurrent tension or stress-related headaches make it difficult to get through your day, physical therapy may be needed in order to provide long-lasting pain relief.
Our experienced physical therapists have the skills needed to target the root cause of your headaches and to create a tailored treatment plan that is safe and effective.
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Get the Relief You’ve Been Looking for with the Help of Physical Therapy
If you are living with arthritis, you are not alone. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost a quarter of all American adults are living with arthritis
Arthritis is a general term that actually encompasses hundreds of different diseases. Whether you have osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or any other type of arthritis, two of the most common symptoms are inflammation and joint pain.
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Find Relief for Your Persistent Aches and Pains
Any pain that lasts longer than three months can be classified as “chronic pain.” When people have chronic pain for a long time, it can become a downward spiral. As a result of the pain, they can become more inactive and sedentary, and their health can begin to worsen.
People with chronic pain may even turn to extreme options, such as surgery or addictive painkillers, to try to find relief from pain.
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Stretching Has Numerous Proven Health Benefits – Here’s Some of the Best!
Have you ever noticed how good a stretch is after a nap, when you first wake up in the morning, or after vigorous physical activity?
That good feeling is just the beginning of the many healthy benefits you can get from daily stretching!
That’s why our physical therapist commonly recommends specific types of stretching exercises to complement other physical therapy methods and treatments.
Read full blog7 Easy Ways to Increase Your Activity and Live Healthy
Do you move every day? Doing so can increase your lifespan, improve your mood, help you maintain a healthy weight, increase your strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance, and help you manage chronic pain and other health conditions. Regular physical activity is so important that our physical therapy team is always looking for tips to offer our patients that will help them get moving. Here are seven suggestions to keep in mind!
1. Walk More
No need to overcomplicate things.
Read full blogYou Don’t Have to Live With Chronic Back Pain – Get Your Life Back with Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy Can Help With Your Pain Relief Needs
Chronic back pain leads many people to consider surgery or addictive painkillers to deal with the problem. The depression that can accompany serious, long-lasting back pain can lead people to think that.
But what if surgery or opioids didn’t need to be a part of your story? If you’ve been thinking about surgery to finally feel some relief, contact our clinic today to find out how working with a physical therapist can be a possible solution to your chronic back pain.
Read full blogChronic Pain Doesn’t Have to Take Over Your Life – Find Relief with Physical Therapy
Did You Know You Could Relieve Your Chronic Pain With Natural Treatments?
Have you grown accustomed to feeling a twinge here and a spasm there? Do you suffer from recurring aches and pains for reasons you don’t totally understand? Have you been gritting your teeth and putting up with a longstanding chronic pain condition?
Maybe you’ve been putting off medical treatment for your ailment because you’re afraid of one particular form of care – surgery.
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