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Stop Back Pain With Proper Snow Shoveling Technique
Let the great dig out BEGIN! With winter storm Orlena dropping upwards of 20 inches of heavy snow in our area, back pain can quickly take hold as we start to dig out of this mess.
If you keep these tips in mind, hopefully you’ll be able to prevent extensive back problems from snow removal.
Read full blog7 Ways To Be Healthier, Stronger, And More Active
It’s a common goal to want to become healthier, stronger, and more active. However, this can be a difficult feat, with lack of time, pain, injuries, or difficulty sticking to a nutritious diet. And over the last 8 months, all of these things have been especially difficult to balance. When you are in pain, undesirable chemicals within your body are heightened, which can increase stress. As a result, your endocrine system becomes affected, which works to regulate the hormones in your body.
Read full blogImprove Balance With One Easy Fix
How Physical Therapy Can Help
Did you know that strengthening your core muscles is linked to developing better balance? It’s true! When your core muscles are strong, they have a better chance of preventing you from experiencing chronic lower back pain and developing other injuries. They also prevent you from losing your balance or falling over. A strong core helps to keep you in an upright position, especially as you get older and develop more of a risk of falling and hurting yourself.
Read full blogDiscover The Key To Sciatica Relief
Our bodies are composed of a complex network of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Your sciatic nerve is the largest nerve you’ve got in your body. It extends from the lumbar spine through the buttocks area, and if there is unnecessary pressure applied to it, it can cause a world of problems for you.
Sciatica, also known as “lumbar radiculopathy,” is a very painful condition that results from the irritation of the sciatic nerve.
Read full blogTop 2 Exercises For Shoulder Pain Relief
Because we aren’t necessarily performing our normal daily routines at this time, it’s natural that the body responds with nagging pain and increased stiffness where there previously wasn’t any. In the clinic, we’ve noticed a big increase in shoulder pain patients coming in with significantly increased pain and less mobility and range of motion. Luckily, you can still get moving and find relief for stiff muscles from the comfort of your own home with my top exercises for shoulder pain!
Read full blog3 Quick Full Body At-Home Exercise Tips
With home exercise becoming increasingly popular, as access to outside gyms and gym equipment has become limited, we know these uncertain times can make it difficult to find the motivation to get moving and exercise at home. Especially with gyms, workout classes, intramural leagues, and the like becoming closed or postponed for the foreseeable future, you may be wondering, “what can I do to be more active?”
Well, at Complete Physical Rehab, we want to make sure you are still getting the physical activity you need, even during a quarantine.
Read full blogHow To Relieve Back & Neck Pain Quickly And Easily
You don’t have to keep dealing with pain!
Back and neck pain are extremely common conditions that many people struggle with over the course of their lives. According to the National Institute of Health, back pain is one of the most common reasons people see a doctor or miss days at work. Even school-age children can have back pain.
Unfortunately, it’s not always an easy task to pinpoint the exact source of the pain you’re feeling in your neck or back.
Read full blog3 Virtual Learning Home Setup Tips From A Physical Therapist
With the 2020-2021 school year shaping up to be, quite possibly, one of the most unique and challenging years ever, many of our patients with kids enrolled in virtual learning have been looking for tips on a good home setup. But with much of the setup focusing on creating exciting and fun spaces that mimic the classroom, I want to make sure that we all remember that we also need to monitor how our kids are doing, physically, with the increase in screen time that is going to come along with virtual learning.
Read full blog5 Tips To Boost Energy Levels and Relieve Pain
Simple Things You Can Do Each Day For Better Health!
If you’ve been struggling recently and are looking for lasting tips to relieve pain, a physical therapist can help you out. With a customized physical therapy treatment plan, you will learn highly effective ways to manage your pain and boost your overall energy levels.
Our physical therapists are equipped with the skills to help you live a pain-free life at last.
Read full blogTop 3 Stretches For Runners
With indoor gyms still closed in the tri-state area and more and more people looking outdoors for a workout, my patients have been asking for top stretches for runners in order to deal with pain that has come up as a result of running, jogging, and walking on pavement and roads, as opposed to treadmills that lessen the impact on joints.
As a certified sports physical therapist that has focused on training runners for almost 20 years, I myself and both used and recommended these 3 simple stretches for all my runners, as they are they have been shown to be the most reliable, overall, for both preventing and relieving pain.
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