So you’ve torn your anterior cruciate ligament and you’re out for the season. Now you have a decision to make. Do you opt for the non-surgical route where you train your knee to adapt to its more limited capabilities? Or do you go for reconstruct
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can sneak up on you. Often beginning as a tingling sensation in the wrist, hand, or forearm, it can progress to a feeling of burning, numbness, weakness, and pain that severely limits daily activities. Symptoms can come and go,
There are plenty of things that can go wrong with your shoulder. It’s one of the most complicated anatomical structures in the human body, after all. We use it to reach forward, back, up, down, and side to side. It even allows us to rotate our arms
When you’re dealing with illness or injury, both the cause and the cure often involve body mechanics. Maybe you’ve broken a bone. Maybe your osteoarthritis is getting worse. Or maybe you’re just feeling run down and out of energy. Whatever your
When it comes to selecting a massage cream, there are plenty of options out there. It can be overwhelming trying to decide between oils and lotions with an endless array of scents ranging from soothing to sexy. Coconut? Hibiscus? Lavender? Eucalyptus
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Sometimes you can do everything right, living a life guided by the best practices for knee injury prevention, and you still find yourself faced with the prospect of knee replacement surgery. Maybe you’ve had an accident or maybe the pain of osteoar
We could all use a little physical therapy now and then.
Whether it’s illness, injury, or disability, any condition that limits our capabilities or causes us pain is a candidate for PT.
Licensed physical therapists are specialists in restorin
We take our knees for granted. They do what they’re supposed to do, taking us from place to place without any trouble. We walk, we run, we jump without a concern. But at the first sign of pain everything changes. We limp, we moan, we sit. We pick u
The shoulder is one of the most complex joints in the human body, with a design that allows us to lift and twist and reach and pull, and a greater range of motion than any other joint. But because there are so many pieces involved in making a shoulde
