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Preparing for the Road to Recovery: The Importance of Pre-Op Physical Therapy
By: Courtney Kline, LPTA
Surgery is scary. No matter what kind, it’s a scary process and preparing for it both mentally and physically can be a daunting task. Your body is about to go through a planned trauma. Even though you are already in pain, hence the need for surgery, you know there is going to be discomfort and a long road to recovery afterwards. Preparation is crucial. Getting pre-op physical therapy before your surgery can help make that rehabilitation journey a little easier for several reasons.
Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge: Week #4
You’re at week #4 of our Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge! Awesome job! Now it’s time to put everything we’ve learned in the past 3 weeks together into an interval training workout!
Need to catch up on the first 3 weeks? No problem! Watch our demo videos HERE to see LSTC’s Kate Zanoni show you how to do Bent Over Rows, Goblet Squats, and Standing Side-Bending Oblique Crunches properly.
Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge: Week #3
Great job on completing Weeks #1 and #2 of our Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge! Get set for a brand new exercise to incorporate into your workout regimen!
Need to catch up on the first two weeks? No problem! Watch our demo videos HERE to see LSTC’s Kate Zanoni show you how to do Bent Over Rows and Goblet Squats properly.
JUST TO REVIEW: All month long, Loudoun Sports Therapy Center is putting you up to a ‘Fall Into Winter’ Fitness Challenge.
Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge: Week #2
Great job on completing Week #1 of our Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge! Get set for a brand new exercise to incorporate into your workout regimen!
Need to catch up on week one? No problem! Watch our demo video HERE to see LSTC’s Kate Zanoni show you how to do Bent Over Rows properly.
JUST TO REVIEW: All month long, Loudoun Sports Therapy Center is putting you up to a ‘Fall Into Winter’ Fitness Challenge.
Fall Into Winter Fitness Challenge: Week #1
In the seasons of pumpkin spice everything, Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas cookie exchanges and snow days, it can be easy to let chillier weather push our fitness goals to the back burner. That’s where we’re stepping in. Starting in November, Loudoun Sports Therapy Center is putting you up to a ‘Fall Into Winter’ Fitness Challenge. You might already have some resolutions you plan on getting around to once 2016 hits. Let’s get a jump start! Our goal is to help you stay active during the Fall and Winter months, which can become a challenge as daylight fades into cold winter nights and holiday festivities (often involving unhealthy foods) take precedence over exercise.
Read full blogHow to De-Stress Your Body For Better Health
We live in a fast paced world filled with deadlines, endless hours staring into a screen, sleepless nights and battling traffic. What does this do your body and most importantly, what can you do to change it? Ultimately, your health is in your hands. Depending on pills to handle aches, pains and stress is not a long-term solution and the many side effects can have a debilitating effect on your body.
Here are natural solutions that you can work on to feel your best:
Regulate your breathing
When you are under a constant state of stress your autonomic nervous system operates on a flight or fight response for extensive periods of time.
3 Easy Steps to Healthy Knees
For many people, knee pain can be a way of life, limiting their ability to climb stairs, squat down to get something off the floor, enjoy long walks, shopping and a host of other daily activities. The knee joint is one of the most complicated joints in the body and has to bear up to 6 times your body weight with running or jumping.
This incredible joint has to move over a million times each year and over 80 million times over a lifetime.
Physical Therapy Just as Effective for Spinal Stenosis as Surgery
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that followed 169 participants showed that physical therapy was just as effective for people suffering from spinal stenosis as surgery (1). In fact, the results point to what physical therapists have known for decades, people suffering with back pain should try physical therapy first, before considering more invasive procedures.
Spinal stenosis is a common back pain condition that affects people mostly as they age. In the spine there are canals that are formed by the vertebrae in which the spinal cord passes through the nerves branching off it.
Back or Neck Pain? What Different Types of Pain Mean
When you have an ache or pain it can leave you scratching your head as to where the pain is truly coming from. Just because it hurts in that part of your leg or arm, doesn’t mean that is where the problem is coming from. Is it a bulging disc, muscle strain or did you just over do it?
Being a physical therapist is much like being a mechanic for the body. Where is that pain coming from, what type of pain is it, are you out of alignment, what are you not able to do that you want to get back to, how is your body moving incorrectly, etc.?
3 Ways to Beat Achy Shoulders
Do you find your shoulders aching at the end of the day or when having to lift your arms? Whether your pain is from an old injury or just from moving all day long, try these simple techniques to feel better and stronger.
Why Your Shoulders Hurt
Your shoulders are the most complicated joints in your body and thus, one of the most easily injured. They have to move through an incredible 180 degrees of motion, while still maintaining stability and strength.
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