Health Blog Category: chronic back pain
Traumatic Brain Injury and Speech Disorders
Why suffering a TBI can make communicating difficult–and how speech therapy can help.
If you or a loved one has recently suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), you know that the effects can be wide-ranging, with physical, cognitive, and sensory symptoms. One of the most impactful aftereffects of a TBI is cognitive change, which can affect your communication ability. Dedicated speech therapy with Aspen Rehab can help restore or maintain cognitive function related to language, speech, and thinking skills.
Read full blogUnderstanding Aphasia–And How Speech Therapy Can Help
Dedicated speech therapy can help you improve your ability to communicate
Has one of your loved ones recently suffered a stroke and now struggles to communicate? They’re likely suffering from aphasia, an acquired speech disorder that can result from stroke or traumatic brain injury. At Aspen Rehab, we provide speech therapy services to help those with aphasia restore their speech and language skills.
Aphasia currently affects around two million people in the United States, most of them middle-aged or older.
Read full blog5 Helpful Tips To Start Relieving Your Chronic Back Pain Today!
Do you experience ongoing back pain that never gives you a moment’s relief? Do you periodically find yourself disabled by bouts of back pain? Whatever form it may take, chronic back pain can put all kinds of limits on your life — until you finally start taking the necessary steps to address it head-on.
You might be under the impression that the only way to combat your pain is to undergo an invasive, expensive operation.
Read full blogAre You Living With Chronic Back Pain? You Don’t Have to Any Longer
The American Physical Therapy Association states that back pain is the most commonly experienced form of pain for Americans. In fact, one in every four Americans has sustained some sort of back pain in the past three months.
Chronic back pain is pain that persists for three months and longer. This type of pain can be due to a variety of reasons, including arthritis of the spine, aging, disc problems and myofascial pain syndrome.
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