Lower back pain can vary in intensity, duration, and location, but if you’ve got it, you know it. Stiffness. Aching. Burning. Muscle spasms. Tingling. Numbness. Sound familiar? While lower back pain might be localized to one area, it can also radiate through your buttocks, thighs, or legs. For some people, it may cause weakness in the legs or make it difficult...
Get Back to Doing What You Love with Our Customized Physical Therapy Plans Are you feeling pain that won’t go away or struggling to keep up with your daily activities? Whether you're an athlete or just someone who wants to get back to doing the things that you love, our customized physical therapy plans can help. In Pain? Consider Physical Therapy. Physical therapy...
Do you have pain, stiffness, or swelling, in your joints? Osteoarthritis is a chronic joint condition that can reduce mobility. If you’re experiencing symptoms, it's important to seek medical attention early.Diagnosis and treatment can help manage the condition and prevent further joint damage. Our physical therapy plans can help. Causes of Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is caused by joint wear and tear that breaks down...
Is your knee stiff or achy? Do you hear popping noises?Does it give out? Knee pain is often accompanied by stiffness, swelling, tenderness, clicking noises, limited mobility, or difficulty standing or walking. If you’re experiencing persistent or severe knee pain, it’s important to seek medical care. Untreated conditions can lead to chronic problems and long-term complications.Our physical therapy plans can help. Knee...
Do your symptoms include fatigue, joint pain, fever, hair loss, sensitivity to sunlight, or a butterfly rash across the bridge of your nose and out into your cheeks? You may be experiencing symptoms related to lupus. Diagnosing lupus early is important to help prevent complications, manage symptoms, and improve outcomes. It’s also challenging because the disease can cause a wide range...
It can be devastating when you, or someone you love, has a stroke. The injury’s fast, catastrophic nature causes abrupt neurological deficits and physical disabilities. While doctors work to stabilize cerebral edema (inflammatory swelling that reaches its peak within the first three to five days), symptoms often get worse, sometimes temporarily. Once your medical team helps the brain stabilize, it’s important...
People of all ages and athletic abilities can get sidelined with a sports injury. Nagging injuries and one-time accidents are the drawback of an active life. Perhaps you pulled a tendon on the golf course or strained a ligament playing tennis. Maybe you twisted your ankle simply walking in the park with your child. Sports injuries that need physical therapy are...
Do you have knee pain? A torn ACL is a common, painful injury that puts the injured at high risk for long-term pain, mobility problems and secondary osteoarthritis. For full recovery, a torn ACLs almost always requires physical therapy (PT). How Does the ACL Tear? The ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) crosses through the knee to stabilize the joint and connect the femur...
Exercise is important to everyone- no matter your age however, exercise is extremely beneficial to those diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Exercise can help people with Parkinson’s slow the disease and control the symptoms. Not only is exercise important to those Exercise is a vital component to maintaining balance, strength, mobility, and activities of daily living. The Parkinson’s Outcomes Project shows...
A wound is damage that occurs to tissue as a result of some sort of trauma. We tend to think of wounds as being open sores, but wounds can also be closed injuries. Regardless of which type of wound you may have, there is a natural healing process that takes place. The healing process requires your body to regenerate the...
