Health Blog Category: health and wellness
What Is Aphasia, and How Is Speech Therapy Useful?
Are you struggling to communicate from an underlying condition? Is it difficult to express yourself or understand what others are saying? If you identify with these statements, you may have a condition known as aphasia.
Aphasia is a brain disorder that causes a person to have trouble speaking or understanding others. This typically occurs with damage or disruptions in brain parts that control communication. Many people feel as if aphasia isn’t treatable. However, speech therapy can help patients fully overcome aphasia and effectively manage symptoms so they can communicate effectively.
Read full blog7 Tips For Better Health
The majority of individuals feel that in order to stay in shape, they must devote hours each day to working out or going to the gym. This is why so many of us claim that we don’t have time to work out! Exercising and remaining physically fit, on the other hand, does not have to take hours out of your day.
You can incorporate a few fundamental aspects into your everyday routine to help you live a healthier, more active lifestyle.
Read full blog3 Simple Changes You Can Make in Your Diet For Pain Relief
We truly are what we eat. If you have chronic pain, you should consider the fact that what you put in your diet could be making your aches and pains worse. Scientific evidence shows that the things we eat can influence our experience of pain—whether by alleviating an underlying health condition or exacerbating it.
If you don’t know whether or not you’re eating the right food groups, our physical therapist team is happy to educate you about making smarter choices in your diets so that your physical therapy treatment plan will be more effective overall!
Read full blogTension Headaches Ruining Your Day? Physical Therapy Can Help!
We’ve all been there before. You’re sitting at your desk, or maybe in your car on the way home from work, when it hits: a tension headache. The pain begins with tension in your neck or shoulders that creeps upward through the base of your skull. Some people experience these occasionally, and some people, unfortunately, experience them daily. You may have even tried stretching and optimizing your work station, but if you are suffering from tension headaches, you know that the only relief comes from either reducing stress or taking medication.
Read full blogIn Need of Quick Recovery After Surgery? Try Rehabilitation!
Let’s face it, the idea of having an invasive surgery can be very scary. You’re not sure how the operation will go, and you might also not be clear on what to expect after you’re all sewed up and the anesthesia has faded away. Physical therapy offers precise recovery processes for people just like you who have undergone extensive operations that alter their levels of mobility.
We know that surgery can be a very daunting, worrisome event for most people, but you don’t have to face recovery alone.
Read full blogTired of Living With Chronic Pain? It’s Time To Try Physical Therapy On For Size!
Here’s a wild fact: According to the CDC, an estimated 20.4% of U.S. adults had chronic pain and 8.0% of U.S. adults had high-impact chronic pain. Both were more prevalent among adults living in poverty, adults with less than a high school education, and adults with public health insurance. Moreover, experts predict chronic pain will increase in prevalence as people age into later adulthood.
As pain changes and the likelihood of more individuals experiencing it increases, finding relief for pain also continues to evolve.
Read full blogFeeling Morning Aches and Pains? Physical Therapy Can Treat The Cause of Your Problem
If you wake up with aches and pains, it can really put a damper on your mood. This is not a good way to start your day. You probably have made excuses for your pain, such as “I slept on my neck wrong,” or “I’m just getting older — this is to be expected.” However, you don’t need to say goodbye to a good night’s rest just yet!
Unfortunately, millions of people experience sore muscles and stiff joints in the morning.
Read full blog5 Benefits of Physical Therapy For Hip and Knee Pain
Have you noticed your hips and knees are in pain when you wake up or go to bed? Are the activities you do between sunrise and sunset impacted by chronic hip and knee joint dysfunction? Struggling with this kind of condition can severely hinder your ability to go about your daily normal routine. Thankfully, there is a solution. You don’t have to give up hope of living with less pain—or become reliant on the medicine cabinet, either.
Read full blogConcerned About Your Back Pain? You Might Have a Herniated Disc
You’re sitting comfortably watching TV one day, and then when you stand up, there’s suddenly a sharp pain radiating through your back. If this scenario sounds familiar to you, you may have herniated disc pain. This type of pain can sneak up on you and become debilitating if it isn’t given the proper attention.
There is good news though, a trained physical therapist can help! Give our office a call for a consultation and evaluation, so you can get a proper diagnosis.
Read full blog5 Benefits To Stretching Before and After You Exercise
At our physical therapy clinic, we notice an interesting trend with a lot of our active patients: they go to the gym regularly, but they largely neglect stretches and mobility work. Do you make time to go to the gym a few times per week? If so, you should certainly commend yourself for your efforts, but ask yourself this: how often do you stretch before and after a workout session?
We’re not sure why not stretching is so common among gym-goers.
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