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What is the Difference Between Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Care?
Find Out Which Will be Best For You!
Think about the last time you felt any kind of chronic pain. If it was related to your back, your friends or family might have recommended that you go and see a chiropractor, but did anyone recommend that you see a physical therapist? Chiropractic care is different from physical therapy, but many people don’t understand what sets these two forms of pain management apart from each other.
Read full blogReady to Improve Your Health? These 5 Activities Can Help
Are You Ready to Get Started on the Path Toward Improved Health?
If you spend your days hobbling painfully from your bed to your reclining chair and back, the notion of pursuing any kind of vigorous activity may be the furthest thing from your mind.
The truth, however, is that getting active can vastly improve your health, your comfort, mobility, and overall quality of life.
What should I know about my health?
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 meds may mask your pain for a little while, it isn’t going to solve a chronic underlying functional problem.
Read full blogStruggling with chronic joint pain? Find out how physical therapy can help relieve your aches and pains.
Chronic joint pain can be an issue that plagues you weeks and even months. It’s something everyone dreads and when it comes, we often have no clue how to deal with it.
Joints are the structures that form the connections between the bones. Joints provide assistance and support in movement. There are a wide variety of different conditions that can cause chronic joint pain, among them are bursitis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sprains and strains.
Read full blogHere are 3 Reasons Why You Must Stay Active as You Age
Looking to Stay Healthy for Life? Start by Staying Active!
“You’re only as young as you feel,” or at least that’s how the saying goes.
However, it’s likely more accurate to say that you’re only as young as your health allows you to be. When you see elderly people shuffling along on walkers or refusing to leave their favorite chair, you might assume that you could face the same scenario in your old age.
Read full blogAre Headaches Ruining Your Day and Making it Difficult to Get Anything Done? PT Can Help!
So many people think of physical therapy as something to turn to after sustaining a severe injury or a car accident. And sure, while there are plenty of times that physical therapy will be recommended in those instances, this isn’t the only use for this incredibly helpful therapy method.
Physical therapy treatments are designed to help the body function at its peak, and that often means using the core PT strategies like exercise, muscle training and targeted massage to do so, as well as adjustment and at times even acupuncture, to address whatever the primary cause of pain may be—including headaches.
Read full blogBack to the Activities You Once Loved With Physical Therapy
Let Physical Therapy Help You Get Back to the Activities You Love!
Struggling To Live Life on Your Own Terms? Physical Therapy Can Help!
Your golf friends wonder if you’re ever going to join them for another nine holes. 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 tennis game got rusty shortly after your elbow did the same.
Read full blogDon’t spend the rest of your life taking medicine to control the pain
Tired Of Relying On Prescription Painkillers And Medication To Control Your Pain! Ask Your Doctor About Physical Therapy!
Our bodies are incredible machines. We all know that they have the ability to heal and repair themselves, but they can also adapt to nearly any situation. That includes the types of things we put into them. This can include supplements, food, and medications.
Temporarily taking medicine to control your pain as you recover from an injury or surgery can be a viable part of your treatment plan.
Read full blogGet Rid of Your Chronic Back Pain
Looking to Rid Yourself of Chronic Back Pain? Here’s 5 Reasons You Should Contact A Physical Therapist To Help
Do You Want To End Your Chronic Back Pain? Physical Therapy is Your Answer!
Do you struggle with chronic back pain that you fear will always keep you from living the life you want? Well, the good news is that you are not alone. 16 million adults experience persistent or chronic back pain in a study done by Georgetown University.
Read full blogDoes Your Desk Job Keep You Sedentary?
Does Your 9-5 Have You Sitting Behind Your Desk for Too Long? Here’s How to Stay Active While on the Clock!
Whenever we think of treatment for an injury or physical ailment it usually has to do with medicine, drugs or a prescription. But one of the many benefits of physical therapy is that it helps show you how physical activity is actually medicine!
Our physical therapy team strongly believes that the human body was meant to move, and when it doesn’t, things start to break down.
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