Health Blog Category: aches
7 Things You Can Start Doing NOW To Increase Your Physical Activity
What are you doing right now, being still or something else? If you are not moving around, you may be suffering from a sedentary lifestyle. As explained by the American Heart Association, increasing physical activity does not mean a person must train in a state-of-the-art gym. Take a moment and think about how many times a day you get up and move around.
If you work a desk job, chances are you are living a pretty sedentary lifestyle.
Read full blogAre You Experiencing Both Back AND Neck Pain? PT Can Help
Relieve Your Pain with the Help of Physical Therapy!
Back and neck pain are very common problems that many people deal with throughout the course of their lives.
According to the National Institute of Health, back pain is one of the most common reasons people see a doctor or miss days at work. Even school-age children can have back pain.
Unfortunately, it’s not always a straightforward job to locate the exact cause of pain you experience in your neck or back.
Read full blogChronic joint pain can be debilitating. Find out how physical therapy can help relieve your aches and pains.
Chronic joint pain can last for weeks and even months. Joints are the structures that form the connections between the bones. Joints provide support and assist you in movement. There are many different conditions that can cause chronic joint pain, including bursitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sprains and strains. Joint pain can occur in any part of the body, but the knee, hip and shoulder are most common.
Physical Therapy for Joint Pain
A physical therapist can work with you to strengthen the muscles that surround the joint, improve range of motion, stabilize the joint and relieve joint pain.
Read full blogHow proper nutrition can help with aches and pains.
Many people know that good nutrition is the pathway to good health. But, many don’t realize that good nutrition can also help with those aches and pains. Combine good nutrition with physical therapy, and it’s a powerful duo.
Nutrition and Physical Therapy
“A systematic review and meta-analysis in the 2017 European Journal of Nutrition found that a Mediterranean-style eating pattern exerts a protective effect on the risk of cardiovascular disease, and is associated with smaller gains in BMI and waist circumference.
Read full blogGet Back to the Activities You Once Loved With Physical Therapy!
Can’t Live Life on Your Own Terms? Turn to Physical Therapy for Help
That oil painting you started way back when still awaits the finishing touches. You bought a guitar last year, but you can’t stand the thought of trying to play it. Your golf friends wonder if you’re ever going to join them for another nine holes. Your tennis game got rusty shortly after your elbow did the same.
Do these scenarios, or similar ones, strike a little close to home?
Read full blogDon’t Spend The Rest Of Your Life Taking Medicine To Control The Pain.
Our bodies are amazing machines. Not only do they have the ability to heal and repair themselves, they can adapt to nearly any situation. That includes the types of things we put into them. Temporarily taking medicine to control your pain as you recover from an injury or surgery can be a viable part of your treatment plan. However, taking these medications on a regular basis, over a long period of time creates dependency and fails to address the underlying problem.
Read full blogGet Rid of Your Chronic Back Pain! 5 Ways a Physical Therapist Can Help Relieve Your Pain
How Physical Therapy Helps You Triumph Over Chronic Back Pain
Does chronic back pain keep you from living the life you want? This debilitating symptom, which may be caused by a variety of underlying issues, may make you wish you could just spend the rest of your life in your recliner. Actually, you can conquer your chronic back pain by getting out of that recliner and scheduling a course of physical therapy. Here are five ways that our physical therapist can use this healing modality to help you put chronic back pain behind you for good.
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