Pain Relief Tips & Resources
Read our latest pain relief tips and resource articles from our health blog. We cover topics ranging from pain, injuries, and current treatment strategies that are supported by research. We’ve tried to distill this information down to a simple, easy-to-read format, so you don’t have to wade through the mind-numbing statistics, p-values, and T-tests. Our hope is that these articles help guide you on your road to overcoming pain and returning to those activities that are meaningful to you.
Lifestyle Changes: Managing Chronic Pain
Lifestyle changes that can help with Managing Chronic Pain Chronic pain can be defined as pain that lasts more than 3 months. More than ¼ of US citizens deal with chronic pain. It is one of the most common complaints seen in outpatient medical clinics. The United...
Should I Get an X-Ray or MRI for Pain?
"Should I Get an X-Ray or MRI?" Sometimes, when we have a pain in a muscle or a joint, the immediate reaction tends to be "get an x-ray or an MRI to see what's going on in there." But is that really necessary, or even the best way to go? Especially, when dealing with...
Back Pain? Try This First!
What should you do if you experience back pain? In our clinic, back pain is one of the most common diagnoses we see. And it’s not surprising considering that a person’s lifetime incidence of a back pain in adulthood is as high as 84% (1). Chances are, if you are...
How to Reduce the Risk of Injury as You Begin Exercising
Reducing the Risk of Injury with Exercise As a physical therapist, I am often instructing patients on certain exercises to help with pain, stiffness, or muscle weakness. If someone is new to exercising and has not previously been active, it is important to take...
Why Home Exercise Programs are Important with Physical Therapy
If you have ever been to physical therapy before, you have likely been told to complete a certain set of exercises at home, in conjunction to your PT sessions. You may wonder why you need to do things at home if you are already coming to physical therapy 1-2x/week....
Physical Therapy & Heart Failure
Heart Failure, Exercises, & Physical Therapy Heart failure - two scary words that most of us hope to never hear in our lifetime. Well, what is heart failure? This is when your heart is no longer able to efficiently pump blood to your body. Heart failure is a...
Avoid These 5 Things to Improve Your Pelvic Floor Health
A PTA Shares 5 Things That May Negatively Impact Your Pelvic Floor Health Although pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) is not necessarily new, there is more of a widespread range of educated providers that are referring to physical therapy to help improve the lives of both...
Thinking of Virtual Therapy Appointments?
One of the positive things that came from the COVID-era was an increased focus on telehealth services and virtual medical visits. Most insurance companies now pay for virtual visits for physical therapy, and most patients already have the technology needed for visits...
Understanding Medicare & Medicare Advantage
Struggling to Understand the Whole Medicare & Medicare Advantage Thing? We hear questions, complaints, and comments from patients all the time in the clinic about Medicare and Medicare Advantage. Often times, these patients want to know the details about the...
Exercise for the Older Adult
What do you think of when you picture older adults exercising safely? Chair aerobics? Slow walking? Resistance training with 3lb weights? If this sounds appropriate, then you are unfortunately thinking like the majority of Americans do. We vastly underdose exercise...
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