If you haven’t noticed, we’ve really been stressing awareness regarding the rotator cuff in your shoulder. It’s not a coincidence. Spring is the time you hear about the rotator cuff the most often. Injuries to the shoulder cuff are very common in baseball pitchers, and this is the baseball season, so we’re sharing as much [...]
It’s Spring, Get Active!
It amazes me how so many people come home after sitting at a desk all day at work, then they come home and what do they do? They plop down on the couch, and probably watch a little TV. While everyone should exercise all year-round for your health…
Physical Therapy: Avoiding Stress Can Speed Up Recovery
An article in “Scientific American” came out not too long ago had some very interesting information regarding stress. While it is fairly common knowledge that stress is bad for the body, some don’t understand why exactly. First, it weakens the immune system, so it’s easier for stressed individuals to get sick. Second, and more important [...]
Common Causes of Rotator Cuff Injuries
The rotator cuff is made up of four muscles that help move and stabilize the shoulder joint. Because it is multiple muscles, injuries to the rotator cuff are labeled as strains. Grade I being the least severe and Grade III being a complete tear of the muscle…
Stroke, Heart Attack Strike Without Warning!
As if stroke and heart attacks were not scary enough, being two of the leading causes of death in America, they also often strike without warning. While these two conditions affect different parts of the body (strokes affect the brain, heart attacks obviously affect the heart), they are very similar. Inactive lifestyles and poor diet [...]
It’s Rotator Cuff, Not Cup!
Some medical terms are very difficult for non-professionals to pronounce. Fibromyalgia, Sarcoidosis and LaCrosse encephalitis are a few that you look at and kind of think “How do I say that?” One term that I often hear mispronounced that makes no sense to me is… Rotator cuff. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve [...]
Shoulder Injuries: Don’t Settle for Less Than the Best Care
As I mentioned in a previous post, the rotator cuff (not cup!) is a very vital and complicated joint. It is made up of four muscles that help move and stabilize the shoulder joint. Damage to any one of the four muscles or their ligaments that attach the muscle to bone can occur because of acute injury, chronic overuse, or gradual aging…
Living with Parkinson’s: Physical Therapy
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) define Parkinson’s disease (PD) as a group of conditions called motor system disorders, which are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. According to NINDS, the four primary symptoms of PD are…
Physical Therapy: Recovering from Chondromalacia Patella
If you look at the title of this blog post, your first reaction is probably “what in the world does that mean?” It’s probably terms like these that explain why we use so many acronyms in the healthcare field. It saves time and a lot of confused looks! All kidding aside, chondromalacia patella is a knee condition that is usually caused by overuse injuries from repetitive stress like running…
Physical Therapy Success Stories: Fighting Sarcoma
Sarcomas are malignant tumors made of cancerous bone, cartilage, muscle, fat or vascular tissues. They can be extremely painful and as all cancers, are very serious health conditions. I recently found this story about a young woman named Alicia Parlette. She had a sarcoma on her hip that made it extremely difficult for her to walk without pain and a limp. Fortunately she had a great physical therapist…
