Health blog Category: Health and Wellness
Managing Arthritis with Physical Therapy
When it comes to managing Arthritis aches and pains, you may have more options than you realize. There is a lot you can do to reduce your aches and pains from arthritis while gaining more mobility and function.
Managing Arthritis pain and inflammation is what we help our patients day in and day out with. Patients often experience pain from arthritis because of stiff joints, muscles and other tissues. In addition, muscles become weak, therefore not supporting the arthritic joints.
Read full blogStretching: What’s the big deal?
When you think of stretching your muscles, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?
Have you even thought of stretching in a while?
Is it just for ballerinas, yoga classes, and your cat when he gets up from a nap?
What does it do for you anyways? Well, here are a few reasons why everyone should stretch!
What does stretching actually do?
Read full blogTips to Achieve Fitness Goals
Welcome to 2024! The new year is in full swing, and with it comes the urge for many people to start fresh with new goals to make this year better than last year. If you find yourself wanting to improve your physical condition, but feel overwhelmed with where and how to start the journey to a healthier you; don’t stress! Here are 6 steps to help you get moving towards your wellness goals, literally!
- Start with the end goal
- Choose which physical activity you want to be able to start, resume, or improve.
How Does Stress Impact Our Neck?
Many people experience neck pain but aren’t sure what is causing their pain. As silly as it may sound, one source that could be to blame, is stress.
Could stress really be causing me to physically hurt? The answer is yes.
The tension of stress can cause the small muscles in our neck to tighten up and stiffen which can cause pain. This can also cause us to lose motion in our neck and make it harder for us to turn and rotate our head.
Read full blogSetting Fitness Goals in the New Year
A new decade, a new set of goals to achieve. At LSTC, we’re all about helping people reach their physical goals. In fact, some of the goals we helped people reach last year were:
- Back to golfing
- Picking up a baby without pain
- Back to running
- Completing triathlons and the like…
- Sleeping comfortably
- Doing necessary household chores without wincing
- Managing concussions and getting students back to school and sports
- Dancing again without pain
- Taking trips out of the country pain free
- And so much more…
So what are your goals for the new year?
Read full blogDon’t Slouch! ~ Combating Poor Posture
All of us have heard these instructions at least once in our lifetime. However, many of us disregard this common command in our everyday lives. Think about how many times a day you spend; bent over a computer, looking down at your phone, or slouching on the couch. All of these things are common displays of poor posture that can lead you to feeling discomfort and pain. It’s often easy to see and point out signs of poor posture in other people, but it can be harder to notice and break poor postural habits of your own.
Read full blog7 Common Questions About Physical Therapy
Out of All the Questions We Receive, This One is the Most Common… “What is physical therapy?”
The use of exercise, manual therapy and different techniques to improve movement patterns, increase function and decrease pain to overall improve quality of life.
“Do I need imaging before coming to PT? MRI? Xray?”
No you do not need imaging before coming to PT. At the initial evaluation will do specific testing to determine a diagnosis.
Read full blogTips to Avoid Injuries While Shoveling Snow
As the temperature starts to drop again, and the chance of snow could arise we want to be sure you are prepared to clear your sidewalk and driveways without sustaining and injury. Believe it or not, shoveling is a common task that our community members do that leads to an injury. Here are 7 things to do to help avoid and injury…
- Warm up with dynamic or static stretching (CLICK HERE to learn more)
- Do not twist through your back-instead turn your whole body (WATCH this video!)
- Do not throw snow over shoulder
- Push snow instead of lifting and don’t overload- if lifting is required bend and lift through
legs not back.
Top 5 Things to do to Start Your Year Off Right
The New Year is here which means we are planning our resolutions and setting goals. Here are 5 things you should do to start your year off right!
Get Moving
Even if you just go on a short walk, try to get moving everyday. Exercise is not only good for your physical health, but it plays a huge role in mental health as well. When you exercise, your brain releases happy chemicals that improve mood.
Read full blogLow Back Pain and Radiating Symptoms
Many people suffer from low back pain of varying levels and usually don’t take measures to resolve or work on it until the pain becomes debilitating on some level to where it becomes limiting in day to day activities.
There is also a common theme in today’s society where people feel going online and doing just a few minutes researching a topic; all of the sudden have gained enough knowledge about a that topic to be able to treat it.
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