We often are told “no pain, no gait” and “feel the burn” when exercising. Certain amounts of soreness can be normal in the days following exercise. It’s important to understand just what this means and how it should feel! During exercise itself, I would argue that no client who is currently outside an injury recovery […]
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Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a potential disabling disease of the brain and the spinal cord. The immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers the nerve fibers. Because of this, communication between the brain and the rest of the body will become an issue. MS is usually classified by periods of relapsing and remission. For […]
Staying Competitive During Athletic Injury Recovery
We talk a lot about how headspace is important for optimal outcomes across the injury spectrum. Of course with athletic injury this is no different. The cool thing we have found about it, however, is that for most athletes one of the most important things to maintaining good psychology until we get back to sport […]
Variability in Healing
I would guess one of the most common questions we get asked in the medical field is “when will this get better”? We unfortunately usually must meet this with a very annoying answer: it depends. This might seem like a brush off, or the answer of someone ignorant to your diagnosis. But the reality is […]
The Value of My Team!
Hohman Rehab operates on a very unique principle I had not been exposed to prior to starting here. But I have been absolutely thrilled since coming on board a few years back! We actually have a team of multiple types of professionals working together to analyze cases once evaluated. Our staff has, of course, physical […]
Wolff’s Law of Bone Repair!
I would say almost every patient who enters our clinic with a partially healed broken bone is worried about the same thing: if it’s not healed all the way yet, why does my doctor want me in therapy?!?!?! Shouldn’t moving re-break the bone?! Don’t get me wrong, in your shoes I’d panic too! But, thankfully […]
