How to Shovel Snow and Prevent Low Back Pain
I often see patients in my practice who developed low back pain or other issues during the winter from shoveling. Like any injury that results from repetition or a general lack of variability, this may be prevented with some easy…
One Simple Exercise to Manage Low Back Pain
Back Pain can take a huge toll on your every day activities, and can add a lot of stress to your daily routine. If you’ve got low back pain, pain that goes into your buttock, or pain that travels down…
4 Simple Exercises to Maintain Healthy Knees
The knee is one of the major joints in the body, and knee health is integral for walking, going up and down stairs, and living an active lifestyle. As you know, pain in the knee can limit all of these…
Watch these Videos to Learn Everything You Need to Know About Pain
Here are two excellent videos from Hunter Medical & Lorimer Moseley. Pain is difficult to understand and even more difficult to live with. If you’re suffering from persisting pain, these videos will help you understand and better manage your pain!…
Low Back Pain by the Numbers (Infographic)
Below you’ll find an excellent infographic from our friends at the APTA on low back pain! If you’re one of the 61% of Americans with low back pain, we can help you get back on your feet! To…
5 Stretches to Relieve Morning Back Pain
Getting out of bed on some days is much harder than others. One of the most common complaints in the morning, particularly among those of us who over 50 years old, is lower back pain. We also know the physical…
4 Strategies to Combat Shrinking Reimbursement in Physical Therapy
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it may be this: the profit margin in outpatient physical therapy is slim. And, with the average rate of reimbursement either staying stagnant or decreasing, this trend doesn’t look like it’s…
8 Thought-Provoking Facts About Physical Therapy You Can’t Ignore
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Evidence Based Patient Care in Physical Therapy
Inertia is the resistance of a physical object to any change in its motion; the tendency of matter to keep moving in a straight line at a constant linear velocity, or to keep still. In other words, inertia is maintaining the…
The Only Physical Therapy Outcome that Matters
Last night I attended The Quantified Patient, which is an event (that represents a larger movement in the world of health tech) that’s focused on redefining healthcare through the use of self-tracking systems, behavior change psychology, and human analytics. In…
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