What if…you could exercise without pain? How great would that be? To have pain no longer be an excuse you use to avoid exercise. This is an idea, a wish held by millions of people each and every day. So why is it that more people are unable to exercise without pain?...
Did you know that direct access to physical therapy can lead to less days in pain? As you may have experienced, the longer pain is around, the longer it typically takes to go away. Traditionally, people “wait and see”, avoiding activity hoping the pain will go away....
People often wonder what a Physical Therapist (PT) does and how they might benefit from seeing one. This is an excellent question and will outline the top 10 reasons here. To address a specific muscle or joint ache or pain. PTs are muscle and joint experts who seek to...
For many with an ache or pain the wait and see approach equals wait and suffer. Quite often people think that if they just rest or wait long enough their ache or pain will just magically go away. However, this is rarely the case. What in fact happens is not only do...
Have you ever felt like your pain (any pain) was worse when you did not sleep well? If so, there seems to be a reason for that. Researchers are finding connections between poor sleep and the pain experience. How So? Sleep is for the body to rest, reset, and recover....
A common belief surrounding back pain is that discs “slip” out of place. Let’s start with this concept is an impossibility. If discs actually moved out of place the spine would be truly unstable…which it is not. The design of the spine is vertebra disc vertebra and so...
Regularly individuals ask the question is surgery their only answer for arthritis pain? For the majority, the answer will be NO…provided they do not wait years until the pain becomes horribly activity limiting. There are great options to help individuals become more...
Last time the focus was on just what is pain. Now let’s dive into if it is possible to overcome the pain? From before we learned that pain ultimately is or becomes a biological response to help keep a person safe. But what happens when that pain response gets turned...
According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is defined as “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.” The IASP recently expanded that...
The Asterisk is the IT – the thing that brings a person to seek help for some injury or activity limitation. For most, pain is the reason they seek help. But in reality it is more than that. It is what the pain is STOPPING them from doing. Has anyone ever been asked...