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Iliotibial or IT Band Syndrome: Causes and Treatment for Knee Pain
Read More: Iliotibial or IT Band Syndrome: Causes and Treatment for Knee PainDo you have a sharp pain on the outside of your knee? It could simply be your Iliotibial Band (also known as the IT Band). The IT Band originates near your hip bone, functions as a stabilizer for both the hip and the knee, and helps protect the ACL from excessive force. However, whenever we…
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Parkinson’s Disease & Physical Therapy
Read More: Parkinson’s Disease & Physical TherapyParkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive movement disorder. Meaning that the longer a person has this condition the harder it becomes for them to move. This disease works by breaking down a dopamine pathway in the brain. As a result, dopamine is not delivered to the Substantia Nigra in the Basal Ganglia. The Basal Ganglia…
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What is IASTM Therapy?
Read More: What is IASTM Therapy?IASTM stands for Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation and may also be called ASTYM or Graston. Both ASTYM and Graston techniques are specific types of IASTM, much like Xerox is a type of copier. IASTM therapy is used extensively in the outpatient orthopedic setting due to the results generated with the technique. Even though this type…
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Dry Needling: Here’s the Point
Read More: Dry Needling: Here’s the PointLet’s talk about a patient that we are seeing more and more of in Physical Therapy these days. We’ll call him Ted. Ted, desperate for some relief from his shoulder pain, came into the clinic almost unable to raise his arm. It was clearly not due to a lack of potential strength or effort. Ted…
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Arthritis & the Benefits of Exercise
Read More: Arthritis & the Benefits of ExerciseArthritis affects one in six people and approximately 8.4 million young adults. In general terms, arthritis means joint inflammation. The term refers to more than 100 rheumatic diseases. These are conditions that affect the joints, muscles, tendons, and bursae. The warning signs of arthritis include recurring pain, tenderness or warmth in one or more joints,…
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