What is PT? Physical Therapy is a physical treatment of injury using methods such as massages, heat treatment and exercise rather than drugs and surgery. What happens at my first session? Here’s what to expect on day 1 at Better with PT. You’ll meet your physical therapist and start to discuss what’s been going …
The Retirement Fallacy
This blog is not just for 65 year olds or those just about to retire. In fact, the younger you are when you read this, the more valuable this message will be to you. From the time we enter the workforce in our young twenties, somewhere in our mind is that distant goal of retirement. …
Physical Therapists Can Help Prevent New Year’s Fitness Injuries
As the holiday season winds down, and the calendar rolls over into the next year, gyms and health clubs fill up. People set goals to lose weight, get in shape, or just work off the few extra pounds they put on during all the celebrating. While getting more exercise and physical activity is great for …
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A Physical Therapy Holiday Survival Guide
Keeping up with physical therapy during the holidays is tough. There are so many other things to do – cooking, parties, shopping, travel, and visiting with family and friends. But if you’re in physical therapy over the holidays, there’s a reason. You’re having pain, or not moving as well as you want to. These issues …
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Start Today!
What can you do starting today to get ahead of your goals for the year? Let’s face it, every new year we make goals and are really passionate about them for about a month or two, then we forget, life gets busy or other pressing things come up. It’s no one’s fault, it’s called life! This blog …
Physical Therapists Help People of All Ages.
Physical therapists are experts in human movement who are trained to evaluate and treat all kinds of musculoskeletal issues. They are highly trained in prescribing and progressing exercise to help people move and feel better. Because everyone moves and everyone can benefit from exercise, physical therapists can help people through their entire lives. Some people …
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Low Adherence to Home Exercise Programs Hurts PT Outcomes
Physical therapists commonly give their patients a home exercise program. What’s not common is the patient actually doing it. Even though compliance with a home exercise program has been shown to significantly increase the chance of meeting goals, it’s estimated that only half of people do their exercises the way that they’re supposed to. What …
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Don’t Keep Injury Secrets!
Physical therapists are experts in dealing with injuries, but your PT can’t help if they don’t know about your injury! You might be wondering who would keep an injury secret. The answer is – lots of people! The first thing that comes to your mind might be an athlete, like a football player, or maybe …
This Picture is Powerful!! Here is your reason to start an exercise program today!
The images above are MRI scans of a 40 year old triathlete compared to a 74 year old sedentary man compared to a 70 year old triathlete. In this picture the gray you see represents the muscles in the thigh region and the white represents adipose tissue (or fat). If we take a close look …
OBJ & The Dreaded ACL Tear
What a game on Sunday. If you were watching closely, like we were, you probably cringed and yelled “ACL tear” at your TV as Odell Beckham Jr. went down late in the second quarter. Well maybe you didn’t yell ACL tear but you knew something was obviously wrong when he went down and had to …
