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What happens in a PFPT assessment?
Physical therapy pelvic floor assessments are different from gynecological exams. This type of examination is performed by a licensed physical therapist who has taken advanced coursework in pelvic rehabilitation. These type of assessments generally last 45 minutes and...
DON’T LET LIFE BULLY YOUR NECK AROUND
DON’T LET LIFE BULLY YOUR NECK AROUND! If something about that statement resonates with you, I can assure you are not alone. Whether an individual identifies as a “desk jockey” or a high level football prospect, head and neck position and stability are of paramount...
Tips to Minimize Stress at Your Workspace
Here are some tips for how to setup your workspace to minimize stress across your joints.
The Golf Swing – A True Total Body Experience
Pain – The Elusive Concept
Written by Pam Showman, PT, DPT Pain is an elusive concept. While there have been attempts throughout history to define it and apply parameters to the definition, there are still things we don’t understand. Much of medicine has tried to dumb pain down a subjective...
PAIN – not our favorite friend
If you have peered into this particular blog, let me start by saying that pain is NOT a weakness. Across a lifetime, it is an inevitable thing we face - ALL of us - to some degree or another, for various reasons. As it pertains to physical therapy, perhaps the...
Early Sport Specialization
Pelvic Health: Fact vs Myth
Written by Pam Showman, PT, DPT There are a lot of myths surrounding the topic of pelvic health and fitness, especially around what priorities should be prior to, during, and after pregnancy. There are also misunderstandings about who the topic of pelvic health tends...
Nutrition and Lifestyle to optimize the healing process with rehabilization
Suffice to say that rehab can be rugged work, whether an individual is coming in to address a nagging, overuse injury or is in the throes of a significant amount of post-operative inflammation around the surgical site. The Body IS designed to respond and adapt to...
Bone on Bone: What is OA?
You’re fifty-five years old and your knee has been bothering you off and on for the last three years. It has progressed to the point that you finally decided to visit the doctor. After an hour in the waiting room and a set of x-rays, the doctor has his report. You...
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