Desperately seeking effective pain relief from your headaches? Prescription drugs only mask the pain, they don’t solve the problem. Physical therapy addresses your pain at source. Book your appointment now. Do you, or someone you love, suffer from headaches? For many patients, the misery of headaches disrupts their daily lives for decades before they findContinue Reading »
Chronic pain is perhaps one of the most frustrating conditions for a health care provider to treat as well as for patients to deal with. The model used to train many of us was to identify a disease or injury by looking for a mechanical or chemical cause for the pain and then address theContinue Reading »
“I’ve Been Told I Have Bone on Bone Osteoarthritis. How Can Physical Therapy Help?”Traditional thought has lead us in the direction that the changes often seen on X-rays and MRIs have a direct relationship with pain. Arguably the most common of these changes is osteoarthritis, or more informally known as the dreaded “Bone on Bone”Continue Reading »
For a long time now, many of us have heard from medical professionals, friends, and family to drink more water. Why? Because water keeps us hydrated? Because most of our body consists of water? What if one of the reasons is that drinking more water will actually prevent you from going to the bathroom soContinue Reading »
To fully heal and regain mobility, you need QUALITY sleep. Physical therapy can help. We help people heal from injuries every day. We monitor patterns and look for similarities in the people who have the best and worst results with physical therapy. One of the biggest variables that play a significant role in people’s ability toContinue Reading »
Pelvic pain can ail anyone at any age, even those who have not had children. In this article we will discuss three different populations that we see in our clinic with pelvic pain: Pregnant women, postpartum women and women of childbearing years. Let’s go over what is meant when we say “Pelvic Pain”, here’s aContinue Reading »
Whether it’s a New Year’s resolution, Lenten promise, or just an idea in your head that you’re finally taking action on forming a new habit, it can be a very challenging task. Human beings just naturally seem to opt for the path of least resistance- and creating a new habit is most certainly not thatContinue Reading »
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who have received a COVID-19 vaccination, chances are you may be experiencing some side effects as many of our patients have – here are some ways Physical Therapy can help ease those symptoms and keep you moving! After a year of lockdowns and a winter filled with unpredictableContinue Reading »
Let’s start by addressing what exactly inflammation is. Inflammation is a natural defense mechanism our bodies use to fight off illness and is even a necessary component of the healing process. Inflammation can be present in both acute instances like a sprained ankle or sinus infection, as well as instances of chronic conditions like asthmaContinue Reading »
When you hear the term “pelvic floor”, what comes to mind? Kegel exercises? The impact of childbirth? Urinary incontinence (a.k.a. leakage)? Pelvic organs falling down? Sex and aging? Pain and spasms? Millions of women in the US alone suffer daily and weekly with urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, sexual pain, pelvic pain of varied origins, andContinue Reading »
