What Is a Muscle Imbalance and How Can Physical Therapy Help?
A muscle imbalance is when one muscle group is too tight and strong while the opposite side is weak and stretched out. This eventually changes your and alters your joint alignment and causes poor posture and could potentially lead to prolonged pain or injury. This muscle imbalance can be caused by many things. Two of […]
5 Signs You’re Ready to Return to Exercise After An Injury
Knowing when to return to exercise or everyday movement is very important. This can make the difference between recovering 100% or prolonging the healing process. Many people try to push through the pain, thinking they are making the injured area stronger, when in reality they may be irritating it further and extending the amount of […]
How Tight Hips Can Affect Your Entire Body
Tight hips can have an impact on your entire body, especially your range of motion. The tightness in your hips forces your whole body to compensate for the stiffness and tightness. Tight hips usually have a chain reaction affect on the body. Starting with the lower back, working its way to the pelvis, knees, then […]
How Strength Training Supports Joint Health
Strength training can be beneficial to the body in many ways, one of the major benefits includes better support for your joints. Your muscles act as a brace that absorbs impact and stabilizes your movements, and your joints play a huge part in your day-to-day movements. Building the supporting muscles around them also helps with […]
Why Does Pain Keep Coming Back After It Goes Away?
Pain can be a reoccurring thing if not treated appropriately. Many methods can alleviate that pain like icing, heating, pain relivers, and more, but at times these things can only relieve the pain temporarily. Without proper rehabilitation, resting, and strengthening, that may leave a pained individual to keep having the same reoccurring pain. That’s where […]
What is FCE and Why Is It Used?
FCE stands for Functional Capacity Evaluation, this is the process of testing and assessing if a patient is ready to go back to work or ready to get back to their everyday life after receiving treatment. This is beneficial to employers, insurers, and helping physicians because it helps inform them of the patients work readiness […]
Flexibility vs. Mobility, What is The Difference?
Flexibility and mobility are similar but different and in physical therapy we use both to restore function. This ensures stability with your mobility and increasing flexibility to a necessary length to avoid injury and dysfunction. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is how your muscles react in each movement. Flexibility often […]
Common Stretches that Increase Mobility and Relieve Tension in Your Spine!
Sometimes during daily activities your spine can start to feel irritation or even pain from built up pressure or even certain movements causing pain. Luckily there are some things that can relieve or even fix the pain. These include stretches like the cat-cow, child’s pose, and knee to chest. These stretches help release excess pressure […]
What is Shoulder Impingement?
Shoulder impingement is a painful condition where the tendons in the shoulder are compressed, pinched or being rubbed by surrounding bones during movement. It’s usually caused by repetitive overhead motions like swimming, pitching, or climbing, and can cause inflammation, irritation, and structural issues like bone spurs. Luckily, this symptom can be treated with non-surgical treatments […]