Tension headaches are, without a doubt, horrifically painful. So why doesn’t your doctor seem worried when they diagnose it? It can be somewhat frustrating as a patient when you feel someone is seemingly brushing off the severity of your issues. Particularly if they are not seeming to give you a fix and “just sending you […]
Physical Therapy
What Is Motion Sickness?
Different from classic vertigo, motion sickness is probably a more common and equally irritating form of a vestibular issue. It presents with dizziness, imbalance, or the feeling of an unsettled stomach or nausea during situations where different perceptions of our body do not match up. Common issues can be riding thrill rides, viewing virtual reality […]
Preventing Falls With Leg Strength: Three Easy Signs!
When the CDC set up the STEADI initiative for fall prevention, they looked at three key realms: static balance, gait speed, and leg strength. Thankfully, all these tests are easy to do at home, and relatively easy to look out for in our own family! Static balance makes sense. If we cannot control where we […]
The Need For Functional Exercises
If you have been to therapy you may have noticed that many of the exercises given now encompass multiple joints of the body as well as multiple muscle groups. This is because when we are moving our body in everyday life we are constantly using multi-joint and multi-planar (directions of movement) to complete our daily […]
Cookie Cutter Therapy
One of my instructors had a great saying once, and I loved it. “If you’re holding a hammer, even screws start to look like nails”. She was reminding us that we need to be critical in application of our interventions, and make sure that we treat each individual case with treatments tailored specifically to the […]
What is a Physical Therapist?
Being a first-time physical therapy patient can be nerve wrecking. You walk into an unfamiliar place, with unfamiliar faces, and are asked a million questions about yourself. You are asked so many questions you may not even get to ask what exactly a physical therapist is. A physical therapist is a trained and licensed medical […]
