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Sprain And Strain: What’s The Difference?
It is a common misconception that “sprain” and “strain” are interchangeable terms. In reality, there are some key differences between the two. In order to understand how they differ, it is important to first understand what ligaments and tendons are.
Ligaments connect bones to bones within a joint, while tendons connect bones to muscles. When you experience a sprain, you are tearing or overstretching a ligament. Conversely, when you experience a strain, you are tearing or overstretching a tendon.
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Understanding the Benefits of Physical Therapy – Both Before and After Surgical Procedures
It’s a wise idea to work with a physical therapist both before and after surgery.
Working with a physical therapist prior to your operation — sometimes referred to as “prehab” – can help you to prepare emotionally and physically for the surgery.
According to the American Physical Therapy Association, physical therapy can help not only with overall wellness, but also prevention.
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In my last post, I talked about the #1 Way to Improve Your Balance, with a simple, easy solution to improving your everyday quality of life. But even with this easy fix, sometimes a more specialized solution is needed. That’s where physical therapy comes in to fix balance problems for good!
When it comes to finding a way to fix balance problems, physical therapy is ALWAYS the best option. Besides being totally holistic and drug free, physical therapy with the right physical therapist gets to the root of the problem. Once the root is found, the problem can then be solved through an individual physical therapy program, so that patients can go back to a normal, daily life. In addition, patients leave physical therapy with a home exercise program that will help keep symptoms away even after the completion of physical therapy. This way, you will know how to handle symptoms if they were to come back!
Read full blogFeeling Better Through Yoga & Physical Therapy Treatment
Everyone desires to be healthier, stronger, and more active. This may sometimes feel difficult to accomplish, due to pain, injuries, or poor diets.
Pain increases undesirable chemicals in your body that cause stress, creating a challenge when it comes to exercise. All of this also affects your endocrine system, which regulates your hormones and controls almost everything happening in your body!
Thankfully, there are many exercises that can effectively ease your pain while simultaneously strengthening the affected part(s) of your body.
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Physical Therapy Can Help You Live Your Life Comfortably
If you are living with chronic joint pain, you are not alone. In fact, 20% of the United States population experiences chronic pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
At our physical therapy clinic, we work with people every day who are dealing with the physical and mental effects of chronic pain caused by conditions like arthritis and fibromyalgia.
Read full blogStill Feeling Off? Introducing The Complete Yoga Program!
Are you done with physical therapy but still feel a little off?
Do you still feel like something is missing?
Are you still feeling a bit unsure about your body?
Don’t worry, this is all a very natural feeling. In fact, it’s something that we hear quite often from our patients that are nearing the end of their time in physical therapy. For many patients, there is still a lingering feeling of unsteadiness that remains, with a bit of fear about how their body will hold up after they are done with their PT program. “But my physical therapist says my physical therapy is done, so what gives?”
Physical Therapy Gets You Back To Function
What many must remember is that physical therapy is the pathway to getting back to being functional again. For example, if a person is unable to walk, for whatever reason, physical therapy helps that patient get back to the point where they are able to walk again. Physical therapy; however, is not meant to help that patient take that next step, such as if a patient now wants to a couple of miles each day, or, better yet, get to jogging as a part of a good daily health plan. That next step, where a person has daily confidence in their body and is also looking to get even better, is up to the patient to find on their own.
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.
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Discover Natural Treatment Methods for Your Pain
If you’ve been living with pain, drugs don’t have to be the answer.
Long-term opioid consumption is not a good strategy for managing chronic pain. In addition to the risk of addiction, opioids simply alleviate the symptoms (pain) of a larger problem.
For very real, measurable improvement over chronic pain, physical therapy has been proven to be a much better option than opioids or other pharmaceutical painkillers.
Read full blogGet Fast Pain Relief With LightForce® Laser Therapy Treatment
With so little time these days, finding fast pain relief solutions are a MUST! We all seem to have less time than ever for keeping up with health and wellness. From working at home, to virtual learning, and everything in between, it all adds up. But now, the answer for fast, easy, and long lasting pain relief is HERE!
We are happy to announce that we are the first clinics in Elizabeth and Jersey City to offer the fastest pain relief treatments available with our new LightForce® laser therapy pain treatment programs.
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Everything You Need To Know To Get Up & Moving Again
If you are experiencing ankle pain that just won’t go away, there is a large chance you’ve suffered from a strain or sprain! People often use these two words interchangeably, however, there is a difference between them. A strain is the tearing or overstretching of a muscle or tendon. These tendons connect bones to muscles. The most common location for a strain is your lower back or a hamstring.
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