It’s easy to ignore many minor aches and pains. With all of life’s responsibilities, obligations, and opportunities, most of us are too busy to worry about some minor discomfort. Even in our hands and wrists, some of our body’s most necessary and useful parts, it’s easy to brush off minor pain as “normal” and expect it to go away on its own.
Your hip joints are the second biggest joints in your body, and are crucial parts of much of what you do. As a bridge between your upper and lower body, they play a vital role in your movement, while also providing shock absorption and protecting your lower back from strain. Walking, running, and jumping would be impossible without them.
You may have heard of a technique called dry needling and wondered what exactly it is. Sticking needles in your skin to treat musculoskeletal pain may sound a little strange. It’s basically acupuncture, right? Not exactly. While there are some similarities, there are some important differences, too. Acupuncture is an ancient technique that has been a part of traditional Chinese medicine for about 3000 years.
Aging bodies go through many changes. Even healthy bodies with good diets and regular exercise cannot escape the inevitable changes that can come with time: declining muscle strength and flexibility, vision loss, cognitive decline, and more. While we can work to slow down these changes and maybe even make some improvements in our senior years,
Many of us have experience with some annoying pain or another: that nagging knee, stiff shoulder, or hip that just won’t quit. Especially as we age, a little joint pain or stiffness can become more likely. Often, we can attribute it to some task we performed recently, whether that pickle ball match or when we helped move that friend’s couch.
Many desk workers spend 6–10 hours seated each day, often unaware of how it’s affecting their posture, spine, and energy levels. The dangers often go unrecognized until they experience stiffness or pain in the neck or back. The truth is that this back and neck pain is an indication that your body is not thriving from this daily routine,
Most of us – especially those over the age of 40 – have experienced minor aches, pains or movement issues without feeling the need to seek medical attention. These things tend to go away on their own, after all. More often then than not this is true; most of these minor aches and pains will go away on their own.
When you hear the words “balance problems,” you might picture an elderly person carefully walking with a cane or behind a walker. The truth is balance disorders can affect people at any stage of life. They can be caused by injury, illness, or a neurological condition. They can come on suddenly or develop slowly over time.
Why would someone post an article about speech therapy on a physical therapy clinic’s website? It must be a slow week in physical therapy news, right? It turns out there’s a stronger connection between the two than what many would expect. The act of speaking is physical, after all, and both types of therapy can often overlap in meaningful ways.
If you are recovering from an injury or surgery, your recovery is about much more than what happens in the clinic. In fact, some of the most important work – and some of the most frustrating set-backs – can happen outside of the clinic. One of the best times for your body’s healing is overnight while you sleep,