Health Blog Category: physiotherapist
Living with Pain? PT Can Help in These 3 Ways – All Without Opioids!
Say NO to Opioids and YES to These Benefits of Physical Therapy!
Does the prospect of taking painkilling drugs for the rest of your life fill you with concern? If it doesn’t, then it should – especially if the drugs in question are opioids.
Many chronic pain sufferers who can’t get the relief they need from NSAIDs or steroids feel that they have no choice but to turn to the more powerful opioid drugs.
Read full blogStress-Related Headaches Getting You Down? PT Can Help
Don’t Let Your Headaches Control Your Life!
Whether the pain starts in your neck, the back of your head or front and center behind your eyes, stress headaches can derail your entire day.
While reducing your stress level can often reduce your stress-related headaches, getting rid of the pressure you are under is not always practical.
Call our office today and find out how a physical therapist just may be the key to getting rid of stress-related headaches once and for all.
Read full blogStop 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 blog3 Post-Thanksgiving Full Body Home Exercises
Even amidst the current COVID pandemic, the end of the Thanksgiving holiday still signals the beginning of a common holiday ritual: exercising after eating all that wonderful holiday food! But due to current circumstances, and with restrictions increasing due to rising COVID-19 numbers, we must adapt while trying to get in that much needed workout. That means that now, more than ever, we can look to home exercise as a way to burn off those calories!
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.
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