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Discover How to Relieve Pain While You Continue to Train With Dry Needling
As physical therapists, we are always looking for new (or revisiting old) ways to help our clients reach their goals. We work in many ways to expedite the healing process and repair tissue. One of our lesser known tools to reach these goals is dry needling. We are...
The Truth About Manual Therapy That Can End Your Pain Struggle
We often receive questions from patients about how we are different from other physical therapy clinics they have been to in the past. We could give you a long list including our passion, empathy, fun environment, and stellar team. However, today we are going to...
Discovering the Best Ways to Breath During Exercise
Have you been more aware of your breathing this week? Last week we discussed how breathing can improve your health and your fitness. As promised, today we are going to dive into specific breathing techniques for exercise. During daily activities, breathing doesn’t...
Just Breathe: The Simplest Way Yet to Improve Your Fitness
You may consider yourself an expert at breathing. It is after all something you have done for your whole life. However, this involuntary action is actually quite complex and chances are you are not breathing optimally. We know our muscles can’t do anything without...
5 Myths About Cupping Therapy
Do we still remember “cupping” or has the fad of the Rio Olympic games faded already?? It was surely this year’s Olympic trend, just like kinesiotaping was in London 4 years ago. Cupping therapy is a form of “myofascial decompression”. . . meaning it is just...
How an Easy Change in Your Footwear Can Ease Pain and Improve Your Movement
It may be our best kept physical therapy secret to ease muscle tension and decrease pain. It may also be the easiest change you can make to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. And it has to do with your footwear. Are you interested in a “quick fix” to protect...
5 Misconceptions About Physical Therapy
After a clients first visit, we often see a light bulb go off, followed by a smile and the comment . . . “So this is physical therapy”. After experiencing a discovery visit or initial evaluation, clients are often surprised that their assumptions about physical...
How to Quickly Recover and Start the Week Pain Free
Attention weekend warriors. . . Did you over do your work out or you recreation this long holiday weekend? Read on to find out how to quickly recover and return to work Tuesday PAIN FREE! Recovery time is often an overlooked aspect of training. You may have heard...
Discover the Most Misdiagnosed Back Pain
Lined up at our tent after a half marathon are about 10 women of all ages. One complains of back pain that started at mile 4, another groin pain that is aggravated after every race. Some report tight IT bands or aggravating hip pain that kept coming up during...
Why All the Buzz About HIIT Workouts?
Are you still hitting the gym 5-6 days a week working on that old New Year’s resolution? Are you spending an hour or more on cardio equipment at the gym and still not getting the results you want? To improve fitness the belief has always been to increase the volume...