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Get Back on Your Feet with Relief for Your Hip and Knee Pain
If you suffer from hip or knee pain, you are in good company – many people experience hip or knee pain at some point in their lives. The hips and knees are the largest joints in your body, providing mobility and supporting your body’s weight. They serve important purposes, but it is also easy for them to become injured. If you are suffering from hip or knee pain, contact Balance Rehabilitation and Health Science LLC today to speak with a physical therapist, and find out how our physical therapy treatments can bring you mobility and relief.
How does physical therapy help with hip and knee pain?
Read full blogIs a Herniated Disc the Reason for Your Back Pain?
Back pain is the most commonly reported area of pain across the nation. Your spine works hard throughout the day and sometimes even small movements can result in pain if there are underlying issues occurring. Your spine is comprised of 26 bones, all cushioned by gel-like discs. These discs provide flexibility to the spine, but they can sometimes slip out of place, or “herniate,” resulting in pain around the nerves.
If you are experiencing back pain, there is a chance you may have herniated a disc.
Read full blogIs Your Discomfort Caused by a Strain or a Sprain?
It’s a scenario that’s all too common to many of us: walking down the street, not paying attention, when suddenly – your ankle slips off the curb. You feel immediate pain but can’t tell if you should seek medical attention or not. Some injuries can go away on their own with a little RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) treatment, but others need professional intervention. The best way to determine if your injury is a strain or sprain – and whether or not it warrants medical attention – is to consult with a physical therapist.
Read full blogWhy Choose Opioids When You Can Choose Physical Therapy?
It is no secret that there is an opioid crisis plaguing the nation. In fact, just within the year of 2016, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of 116 people each day. It is also estimated that about 11.5 million Americans misuse the pain-management drugs they’re prescribed, costing approximately $504 million in economic costs. Researchers have also determined that more and more people are being denied jobs due to a failure to pass opioid-free drug tests.
It’s a frightening state of health we’re in, especially when many people believe that opioids are the only option.
Read full blogPreventative Rehabilitation: The Many Benefits of Pre-hab
Do you have a surgery planned in the near future? Is your job or sport physically demanding, putting you at risk of sustaining an injury? Are your muscles and joints simply not what they used to be, becoming frail and weak? If so, preventative rehabilitation, or “pre-hab,” may greatly benefit you.
Pre-hab helps in conditioning the body so it can heal quickly after surgery, speed up recovery processes, and prevent injuries from occurring.
Read full blogWhen to Seek Help for Your Sciatica Pain
The sciatic nerve runs from your lower back down to your legs. Most people who experience sciatica symptoms describe the sensation as a “shooting pain,” typically on one side of their body. Sciatica is a condition that does not always require medical treatment; however, physical therapy can help ease your pain and lessen some of your other uncomfortable symptoms. It can be difficult to know when you should seek help, but there are 3 key indicators that you may need physical therapy intervention:
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Read full blogWhat You Need to Know About Sprains, Strains and Ankle Pains!
While the terms sprain and strain are often used interchangeably, there is a key difference between the two. A sprain is the tearing or overstretching of ligaments. And ligaments are the rows of tissue that connect bones in a joint. The most common location for a sprain happens to be the ankle joint. A sprain to the ankle joint often causes ankle pain. Specifically, a strain is the tearing or overstretching of a tendon or muscle.
Read full blogTry a Natural Treatment! How Physical Therapy Can Help You Live Without Pain Meds.
By any reasonable standards, ours is a highly medicated society. Scan any grocery store or pharmacy aisle and you’ll see all kinds of over-the-counter painkilling drugs. Doctors routinely write prescriptions for heavier pain relievers, including the opioid medications that have become a national abuse nightmare. If you’re tired of suffering from chronic pain but you’re not ready to turn your body into an ongoing chemistry experiment, you’ll be happy to know that physical therapy can give you safer, healthier, longer-lasting pain relief.
Read full blogWant to Recover Even Faster? Try Pre-hab!
If you are considering surgery, you are probably well aware of the need for rehab post-surgery. Rehab sessions with a physical therapist are a major part of the process of getting surgery — without the physical therapy of rehab, it is difficult and sometimes impossible to get on your feet again.
What you may not have heard of is pre-hab. Where rehab is physical therapy following surgery, pre-hab is the process of working with a physical therapist to prepare your body for surgery.
Read full blogSay No to Sciatica Today with Physical Therapy!
The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the human body. It extends from the lumbar spine through the buttocks area. Sciatica is pain that results from the irritation of the sciatic nerve. Generally, pain is felt in the lumbar area and behind the thigh. The pain can also radiate to the lower limbs. Sciatica can make bending and walking very difficult. The most common cause of sciatica is lumbar disc herniation, but it can be caused by a back injury and disc degeneration.
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