Health Blog Category: spine
How 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 blogTop 3 Ways To Prevent Home Office Back Pain
In one of my last blogs, I went over my top 3 exercises for dealing with back pain in a home office setting. But if we take a step back for a second, what you’ll find is that we can and should be trying to stop back pain before it even starts to creep up. As we have all been working more from home, my patients have been finding that they are actually more sedentary than when they were in their normal offices. Much of this can be attributed to more “alone time” at a desk at home with less interaction with fellow co-workers, in addition to smaller work spaces with easier and closer access to amenities such as bathrooms, kitchens, etc. All of this leads to less overall movement during a workday.
Read full blogSay No to Sciatica! 3 Indicators That You Need to See a Physical Therapist
Each of your sciatic nerves runs from either side of your lower back down to each of your legs. That’s why a classic sign of sciatica is having a shooting pain on one side only. While compression of one of your sciatic nerves can literally be a “pain in the butt,” it doesn’t always require medical attention. Yet sometimes physical therapy is your best bet to banish sciatica symptoms. So how can you tell when to go it alone, and when to call a Complete Physical Rehabilitation physical therapist?
Read full blogSleeping And Working With No Back Pain
There are many patients that come in for physical therapy for back pain. Many have, unfortunately, stated to me how their back pain affects their everyday lives in many different ways. All of this is normal for my back pain patients. But what’s unsettling for me is the number of patients that have told me that they’ve had back pain for so long that they accepted it as a part of their everyday life.
Read full blogBack Pain Solved With Physical Therapy
Untreated back pain can slowly affect every part of a person’s life. When back pain starts, it may not seem like much at first, but as time goes on and the condition stays untreated, a person can find their active lifestyle being severely hampered in many ways, from lessened exercise activity to something as simple as no longer being able to be active with family.
Read full blogWhat Is The Cause Of Sciatica?
When sciatica first hits, our physical therapy patients always start their 1st visit with the same question:
What Caused My Sciatica?
It can be very difficult to figure out how back pain started. In general, there are many medical issues that can lead to back pain and significant sciatica issues. That being said, there are 3 common causes of back pain.
Neck And Back Pain Relief With Physical Therapy
Jun 1st 2018It can be hard enough to deal with pain in one body part, let along multiple body parts. For Ada, who already deals with back pain issues stemming from a lifelong back condition, she knew that she needed to come in to physical therapy in the Jersey City clinic when she now started to have migraines due to neck pain as well. As a former patient, she knew that Humberto and Dr. James could help her again.
Read full blogEarly Physical Therapy For Low Back Pain Shows Better Outcomes, Lower Cost
Low back pain patients who underwent early physical therapy reportedly had better outcomes than those who did not. Early physical therapy was also more cost-effective, according to researchers.
In the study, published recently in the journal Spine, researchers studied the effect of early physical therapy on 220 patients with low back pain, with respect to both outcomes and costs.
Read full blogAmazing Physical Therapy Results For A Past Patient
When it comes to back pain, I always let my physical therapy patients know that treatment may be an ongoing thing. We can always help you get back from injury, but once you get back out on your own, there is always a chance for re-injury, which means you may need to come back for physical therapy.
Read full blogBack Pain And Snow Shoveling
With the latest nor’easter having finished ripping through our area, dropping 12 inches of snow, the time has come to start the dig out process. But with that comes the potential for back pain due to improper snow shoveling techniques.
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