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Here’s how you can stay active and fight joint, muscle and nerve pain with physical therapy first
When pain is present, your body will naturally want to limit movement and then compensate to avoid that pain, thereby creating new injuries. You hurt your foot, ankle, shoulder, hand or knee, and medical professionals who are not physical therapists, including orthopedic surgeons, want to immobilize it. They want to put you in a boot, a splint or...
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X-ray and MRI not needed
I meet many people in our community who come to me with X-ray or MRI results from an orthopedic surgeon, and a laundry list of diagnoses that often have little to do with their symptoms. To help you become better informed, avoid being manipulated by results, and prevent you from being driven by fear into inappropriate testing and poor outcomes, I...
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Here’s how physical therapy can stop neck pain and help you avoid orthopedic surgery
Neck pain, whether from a motor vehicle accident, sleeping on it wrong, or from lifting too much weight, can lead to chronic deficits that limit quality of life and function. It is important to see a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy first to assess your symptoms and movement limitations by evaluating how your body compensates for neck pain...
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Knee pain? Here’s why the team at MyoFit Clinic says a physical therapy-first approach is the best way to avoid orthopedic surgery
The knee is one of the most used joints in the body and can easily take the repetitive stress of day-to-day use. When the knee is pushed beyond its limits, or turned in a direction it isn’t meant to, it can cause pain and injury. When this happens, physical therapy is the best first option for treatment. What Can be Done About Knee...
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Shoulder pain and physical therapy: Your best option to avoid orthopedic surgery
If all the joints in your body, the shoulder has the greatest range of motion. Our shoulders sustain sprains and strains, dislocations, tendinitis, torn rotator cuffs, bursitis, frozen shoulder, fractures, arthritis and a host of other injuries and conditions. Because it is such a mobile joint, you can hurt it in falls, when you strain to try...
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