Stop Allowing Joint Pain to Control You: Physical Therapy Can Help!
Chronic joint pain is typically associated with arthritis, although other physical ailments can lead to joint deterioration and pain. While physical therapy is not a cure for arthritis, it can help to alleviate the pain, increase your range of motion in the affected joints and help you get control over the problem so that it doesn’t get worse. If you are not proactive when it comes to joint pain, it likely will worsen over time.
Read full blog3 Reasons Stretches Are Important In Physical Therapy Treatment
It may be hard to believe at first, but some simple physical motions dramatically improve your overall health, wellness, and quality of life!
Stretching exercises are a staple of physical therapy for just that reason. You might be surprised to discover just how many ways stretches can help you. While strength and endurance exercises are also incredibly important, stretching can be especially helpful in helping a patient manage their aches and pains.
Read full blogHow Physical Therapy Can Relieve Stress-Related Headache Pain
When you see someone clutching their head, you may assume either that they are under extreme stress, or that they have a headache. You may be right to assume both! Physical and emotional stress can cause tension headaches; they can also trigger cervicogenic and migraine headaches, any of which can leave you effectively disabled
Did you know that headaches are the third most common pain complaint? It’s true. Headaches are extremely common and can be so debilitating to the point that they impact a person’s quality of life.
Read full blog5 Activities to Get Moving and Improve Your Health
The notion of taking part in some sort of physical exercise may be the farthest thing from your mind, especially if you spend your days hobbling painfully from your bed to your reclining chair and back.
However, the fact is that your fitness, health, flexibility, mobility, and overall quality of life can be greatly enhanced by being involved in physical activities. Here are our physical therapist’s five exercise ideas that you may enjoy incorporating into your lifestyle!
Read full blogOvercoming Back Pain With The Help of Physical Therapy
Chronic back pain can prevent you from performing the countless daily tasks you need or want to perform. Even when you’re not engaged in activity, your back pain may be keeping you miserable 24/7.
Did you know that approximately 80 percent of Americans have experienced (or will experience) back pain? That’s a depressing statistic, especially if you group yourself in with those people! Many turn to over-the-counter medication and opioids for help, but don’t be so quick to assume that drugs can provide more than temporary relief, or that surgery won’t create more problems than it solves.
Read full blogTaking Opioids For Arthritis Pain? Physical Therapy is A Better Alternative
Taking an opioid painkiller for relief can be a powerful temptation when a person suffers from arthritis, especially in a weight-bearing joint like the knee or hip.
The bad news is that the patient’s bones begin to rub together while an opioid will temporarily relieve pain, making the underlying cause of the disease even worse. And that’s long before you consider the addictive qualities of opioids.
Find the drug-free solution to arthritis pain instead of turning to opioids: physical therapy.
Read full blogKick Opioid Dependence With Physical Therapy
Did you know that opioids like morphine and oxycodone are making your pain condition worse? Drugs like these alter your perception of pain, but they don’t relieve it. So, if you’re taking an opioid and believe it’s relieving your pain, know that it’s doing nothing to improve your pain symptoms, it’s only masking them!
Opioids are not the only option you have to get relief. Physical therapy can help you find the peace you’re longing for.
Read full blogAre Pain Meds Worth The Agony? Physical Therapy Can Help
Pain is uncomfortable, but it’s a necessary evil. It’s a helpful messenger, an alert that something in your body needs to be fixed. Regardless, pain can also be an agonizing annoyance that ruins your quality of life.
Many pain problems are rooted in underlying conditions, often originating in a different part of the body than the part exhibiting symptoms.
Although pain medication may mask your pain for a little while, it isn’t going to solve a chronic underlying functional problem.
Read full blogKick Pain and Inflammation With a Healthy Diet
In your daily struggle against pain and inflammation, are you reaching for a pill bottle, or are you looking for a healthy lifestyle change? That latter choice will do more for you in terms of long-term function, mobility, and safety.
Did you know that you can improve your pain and inflammation by choosing to eat healthier foods? It’s true! Pain and inflammation can be significantly reduced through a combination of better lifestyle choices, healthier eating habits, and physical activity.
Read full blog5 Ways To Know You’re In Need of Physical Therapy
Physical therapy isn’t just for rehabilitation or athletes in training. There are many reasons why a person might need the assistance of a physical therapist. Maybe they were in an auto accident and experienced painful whiplash or broke a bone. It could be that they received an injury on the job site. Physical therapy is not only helpful in cases of obvious injury though!
Our clinic put together five basic indicators that you need to visit a physical therapist.
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