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Exercise and Osteoarthritis
A diagnosis of osteoarthritis in your hips, knees or other joints may seem like the perfect “excuse” to dodge workouts. Yet it’s more important than ever to keep your heart healthy and immune system strong, while also learning moves that improve your flexibility and strength.
In fact, building up your muscles through physical therapy and other exercise is one of the key ways you can relieve pressure on your joints — and potentially slow the progression of OA.
Read full blogAttention golfers and tennis players. Be sure to use these tips and tricks to avoid pain post-game.
These tips and tricks can help you avoid post-game pain.
- Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate
Many athletes tend to hydrate well before a game or match, but often neglect their hydration after exercise. Water regulates body temperature and lubricates the joints, allowing the body to flush out any pesky toxins and aid it in restoring muscle tissue. After you exercise, your goal is to fully replace your fluid and electrolyte loss.
Read full blogHow Physical Therapy Can Correct Muscle Imbalances
Many people still believe that physical therapy is only needed for rehabilitation after injury, accidents, or surgery. In reality, almost everyone can benefit from physical therapy to prevent minor recurring aches and pains or subtle losses of flexibility from becoming debilitating health issues. Physical therapists can help because many of our aches and pains are caused by muscle imbalances. This is true whether we are couch potatoes, dedicated fitness enthusiasts or athletes.
Read full blogHow You Can Stay Active in Your 50’s & 60’s: 3 Tips to Get You Moving
Growing older is filled with change and new challenges to be confronted. For many, these changes often involve coping with a decrease in athletic performance and abilities. However, just because you’re growing older doesn’t mean you still can’t enjoy an active lifestyle. If you are someone who is in their 50’s and 60’s, here are 3 tips to get you moving.
Find an Activity You Enjoy
One of the easiest ways that you can ensure that you remain active into your 50’s and 60’s is by finding an activity that you enjoy doing.
Read full blogDo You Have a Sedentary Job? How to Stay Healthy and Fit Throughout the Week
Do you find yourself sitting for the majority of the day? If you work at an office where you are confined to a cubicle, you may end up sitting for up to 10 hours a day. Not to mention going home and sitting on the couch after dinner. While it may not seem like too big of a deal, one hour of sitting reduces the production of fat-burning enzymes by as much as 90 percent.
Read full blogThe Best Sleeping Positions to Wake Up Pain-Free
When it comes to muscular, joint and bone pain, sleep may play an integral role. If you’re having trouble settling your body’s score with pain, you might want to consider a few pain-free sleeping positions. Depending upon your consistent morning ailments, a few positions might reduce pain—or strike it out, altogether. Take a look at the following sleeping positions experts believe reduce ongoing morning pain:
Sleeping On Your Back with a Pillow Under Your Legs
A lot of sleep studies suggest sleeping on your back, with a pillow situated beneath the crooks of your legs, can aid in maintaining your lower back curve.
Read full blogSitting is the New Smoking: How Physical Therapy Combats the Negative Effects of Inactivity
We all know that smoking is bad for your health for a variety of reasons, but did you realize that sitting can be every bit as dangerous to your long-term health? While many office workers strive long and hard to obtain a job that is “better” than damaging your body through strenuous hard labor, desk jobs may actually be worse for your body than being on your feet! Everything from obesity and metabolic syndrome to high blood sugar, abnormal cholesterol levels, and even cancer have been linked to an excess of time spent on our rumps.
Read full blog5 Steps to Your Fastest Run Time/Marathon
If you’re a competitive runner, you know that every second counts when it comes to your run times. Trying to shave extra seconds off of your last time can be a challenge. You might try to add complex training to your workouts, or push yourself past your comfort level in order to improve. Unfortunately, this might not result in any gain to your time. Even worse, it could put you at risk for an injury. Before stepping up your training, consider going back to the basics. A solid foundation is the key to success, and you might have missed some fundamentals that could be hurting your performance.
Read full blogTop 5 Most Common Sports Injuries
For most of us, an active lifestyle serves as more than merely obligatory workouts to keep the pounds off and the heart healthy. It’s more about self-challenging discipline that also serves up social and mental therapy. Balancing work, especially the inactive office type, with enjoyable physical movement provides the key to anticipating tomorrow rather than dreading it. Until, that is, we feel that tell-tale blast of pain that indicates we probably went just a little too far this time.
Read full blogDon’t let TMJ Ruin Your Day! Get the Help You Deserve
Hearing and feeling your jaw click isn’t comforting. On the contrary, it can be downright painful. Yet it is a constant reality for over 10 million Americans, who suffer with temporomandibular joint and muscle disorders (TMJ).
TMJ is marked by chronic jaw pain, difficulty chewing, and clicking and locking of the jaw. Many people with the disorder also experience frequent headaches, pain in their face or mouth, joint crackling, and muscle spasms.
The temporomandibular joint is a hinge that attaches the jaw to the temporal bones of the skull, which are located in front of the ears.
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