Physical Therapy Can Help Manage Pain so You Can Reclaim Your Life Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts three months or longer. This type of pain can be caused by a number of factors, including spinal arthritis, aging, disc issues, and myofascial pain syndrome. Spinal arthritis causes pain due to the slow thinning
Category: Chronic Pain
A Physical Therapist’s Role in Chronic Pain Relief
Ready to Relieve Your Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is extremely common – with more than 100 million sufferers alone in the U.S. So if you’re struggling with chronic pain – you’re not alone. Standard pain medications have so many undesired qualities that you can’t rely on them to fully treat your pain, which can leave
Upcoming Surgery? Recover Faster with PT!
Discover How Physical Therapy Can Make Your Recovery Quicker and Easier! Every year, our PT team treats thousands of people recovering from surgery. Whether you’re undergoing a joint replacement, back surgery, or some other procedure, we’re confident that working with a physical therapist can help you heal and get back to your active lifestyle as
The Connection Between Nutrition and Pain Relief
Find Relief for Your Aches and Pains with Nutritional Changes Could you be feeding your chronic aches and pains without even realizing it? If your pain problems have steadily worsened, you may need to look at your nutritional choices. Certain foods have been known to alleviate inflammation, where some foods can aggravate it. In fact,
Find Relief for Your Hip and Knee Pains with PT
You Don’t Have to Live with Constant Pains! There are many factors that could lead to pain in the hips and knees, from excess weight, to sports injuries, to rising age, to repetitive motion injuries. Regardless of the cause of your hip and/or knee pain, if you experience it regularly, it’s important to find a
Trouble Staying Active While Working a Desk Job? We Can Help!
A Sedentary Job Doesn’t Have to Mean a Sedentary Life! At our PT clinic, we see many hard-working patients with desk jobs—but it can be difficult to find time to stay active in sedentary environments. Unfortunately, many people eventually realize that it is the sedentary nature of their work that directly affects their health and
Is Persistent Back Pain Bothering You? Check with a PT to See if it’s a Herniated Disc
Do You Know if Your Back Pain is From a Herniated Disc? Do you seem to have trouble performing even simple everyday activities due to severe back or neck pain? Do you have strange neurological symptoms in your arms or legs that you simply cannot account for? Has your spine never quite worked as it
Living With Aches and Pains? Try Changing Your Diet
Did You Know You Could Find Pain Relief with a Simple Diet Change A physical therapist can help you identify ways to improve your nutrition to help reduce your aches and pains. If you are what you eat, what are you based on your last meal? If your answer was full of saturated fat and
Stop Your Opioid Use Once and For All with Physical Therapy
Did You Know Physical Therapy Could Decrease the Need for Opioids? If you’ve been struggling with serious pain problems for a while, and you’ve gotten little to no relief from over-the-counter painkillers, your doctor may want to prescribe opioids to control that pain. But as tempting as it might be to numb yourself with these