Health blog
Having Shoulder Pain While Putting On Your Jacket?
The rotator cuff is responsible for the rotation and movement of the entire shoulder joint and all of your arm. If you have ever had pain, soreness, pinching, or other discomfort in your shoulder, you most likely had a rotator cuff problem. Experiencing these symptoms when putting on your jacket, is common when dealing with a rotator cuff problem.
WHAT IS YOUR ROTATOR CUFF?
In order to better understand how your rotator cuff works you need to know what it is.
Read full blogPain Free for the Holidays: Travel Tips
Want to be pain free for the holidays? Have a holiday trip is on the calendar?
Trips are always something to look forward to and we want to make sure you get to your final destination without any nagging aches or pains. Avoiding pain and discomfort will allow you to enjoy your trip and can even help you improve daily ergonomic habits when you return home safely after your trip. Let’s keep you pain free for the holidays!
Read full blogAvoiding Injuries on a Hike
It’s a beautiful time of year to be outside with the color change in the leaves, the vibrant blue sky, and the crisp autumn air. What better way to enjoy it than going for a hike!
Here are some tips for enjoying your outdoor adventure while also avoiding injury…
Wear good sneakers or hiking boots
- Protecting and supporting your feet can help reduce the risk of problems in your knees, hips and back too
- If your walking/hiking shoes or boots are a few years old and worn out, look at getting a new pair
Pick your trail difficulty carefully
- Exploring a mountain trail can be exciting, but if you haven’t hiked in a while or are used to only walking on level/paved paths it can lead to injuries.
Plantar Fasciitis: A Common Foot Problem
Ouch! If you’ve ever had plantar fasciitis, you know just how excruciating those first few steps are when you get out of bed in the morning. It can feel like you’re stepping on a knife as the tight connective tissue on the bottom of your foot stretches out. As someone who has had a recurrence of plantar fasciitis over the years, beginning in high school, I can tell you first hand just how painfully necessary it is to address the underlying cause to avoid flare-ups.
Read full blogRotator Cuff Strains: Causes, Symptoms, and Effective Treatments for Quick Recovery
The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that help stabilize our shoulder within it’s socket as we do overhead movements. There are four muscles that make up the rotator cuff, each muscle has a different action and all must be equally strong and flexible in order to avoid a number of different shoulder injuries.
Shoulder Injuries
Rotator cuff strains are common in professions that require a lot of repetitive overhead movements and rotator cuff tears are common in sport athletes who participate in overhead motions for example baseball, tennis, and basketball.
Read full blogFrom Tee to Treatment: Physical Therapy for Golf Injury Recovery
Golf is a sport that requires complete full body movements that are not always the same for the average golfer. With a golf swing you will use everything from lower body movement up to mild rotation of the neck. If you have any imbalances throughout the body whether it’s involving strength differences or mobility impairments it can start to affect other areas of the body to try and compensate for these imbalances.
Some common injuries that arise with golfer are:
- Lower back pain
- Rotator cuff injury
- Medial epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)
- Wrist injuries
- Knee injuries
Why Do Injuries Occur?
Physical Therapy’s Role in Total Knee Replacement Recovery
Both pre- and post- op physical therapy treatment are crucial for a smooth and fully recovery of a total knee replacement.
Preoperative Treatment
Preoperative treatment has been shown to reduce the recovery time of those undergoing a total knee replacement. Here are some things to expect:
- Knee flexion range of motion (ROM) improved at 3 months postop.
- Knee extensions ROM improved at 1 to 3 months postop.
What Makes this Joint Pop, Snap, and Crackle?
If you hear or feel your joints pop, snap, or crackle, this could be a sign of patellofemoral pain.
What exactly is patellofemoral pain?
Patellofemoral pain is a general term used to describe pain that resides in the front of the knee and around the kneecap. Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome, PFPS, is also known as both runners’ and jumpers’ knee due to the type of athletes who commonly complain of the problem.
Read full blogSitting for Several Hours Each Day?
Neck pain is a common complaint that we see in physical therapy. Our posture as a society has continued to decline with the increased use of phones and computers. Poor posture when sitting or standing can lead to many neck injuries that can be addressed with physical therapy.
Common Neck Injuries:
Cervical radiculopathy is a term that means radiating pain down into your arms/hands or upper back. This is due to nerve compression in the neck.
Read full blogThe Importance Of Core Strength
When most people think of the core, they think of the abdominals and doing sit-ups and generally know that one needs to have good core strength. Beyond that, most people don’t know much else about the core.
So what are the core muscles and what do they really do?
The core muscles consist of the muscles surrounding and providing stability and postural control to the torso, abdomen and pelvis.
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