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Therapeutic Massage: How it Can Help You Get Back in the Game
Therapeutic massage is commonly used in athletes whose muscles may have experienced extended periods of overuse. It helps in loosening up any tight areas and making recovery quicker and easier – so you can get back on track to accomplishing your end goal.
If you are an athlete, you know the amount of dedication that it takes. Whether you’re preparing for a marathon, competition, recital, or big game, the amount of training and preparation is extensive.
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Have You Sustained a Sports Injury? Return to the Sport You Love with Physical Therapy!
Did you know that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, over 2 million high school athletes suffer from sports-related injuries annually? Additionally, 3.5 million kids under the age of 14 also receive treatment for sports-related injuries annually. This doesn’t even include the number of adult athletes that get injured from a sport.
Read full blogImprove Your Fitness With These 5 Benefits of Walking!
Did You Know About These Walking Benefits?
If you think you don’t know how to exercise, you are wrong. Plain and simple, you get out of a workout as much as you put into it.
If you are willing to give physical fitness a try, then there is absolutely nothing holding you back from getting started.
Don’t believe it? Well hear this: You’ve been building your fitness skills since your very first step.
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Did You Know Physical Therapy Could Help Improve Your Sports Performance?
Sports physical therapy is an ever-growing field of focus. In fact, according to the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, “The specialty niche of sports physical therapy has grown at a significant rate over the past 40 years.”
So, what does a sports physical therapist do? A sports physical therapist is dedicated to helping you reach your goals – and developing new ones!
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Living with Sciatica? Consult with a Chiropractor!
Tiger Woods swears by it. So do Barry Bonds and Joe Montana. But does chiropractic care really help sciatica, or is it “all in their heads”?
As it turns out, there are medically sound reasons why the kind of treatments chiropractors offer may provide substantial relief from the back and leg pain or numbness that is a hallmark of sciatica.
Understanding Sciatica
To decide whether chiropractic care is right for your back pain, it’s important to understand sciatica itself.
Read full blogEncouraging Outdoor Play can Greatly Benefit Your Child!
Is Your Child Getting Enough Outdoor Play Time?
Playing outside with your child offers them some developmental challenges that many kids are lacking today. It’s not simply a cliché to think that children benefit from playing outdoors.
There’s a growing body of scientific research that has found some incredible advantages for a child’s development if you engage them in outdoor activities.
As your child’s physical or occupational therapist will tell you, your child will learn more about the world around them and their body when you get them off the couch and outside for some play.
Read full blogArthritis Can Hinder Your Daily Life — Physical Therapy Can Help You Find Natural Relief
Our Natural, Safe, and Non-Invasive Methods Can Help You Move With Ease
If you have arthritis, then you know all about the difficulties with moving and functioning in daily life that it can present. What you might not know, however, is that physical therapy can help you find relief from your arthritis pain.
There is no cure for arthritis, but by using the exercises and techniques that your physical therapist can teach you, the onset of arthritis can be slowed and you will experience less pain overall.
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Did You Know Physical Therapy Could Help With Headache Relief?
If stress-related headaches are happening so frequently that they are impacting your daily life, it’s time to start thinking about physical therapy for relief. Stress-related headaches, also called tension headaches, are the most common type of headache that impacts people.
While they are not as serious as migraines, tension headaches are a sign that something in your body is “off.” A physical therapist at Synergy Therapeutic Group can work with you to determine the cause and eliminate stress-related headaches for good.
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Are You Living with Pain? Physical Therapy Could be Your Solution
Pain can be a helpful messenger, an alert that something in your body needs fixing ‒ but it can also be an agonizing annoyance that ruins your quality of life.
To make matters worse, many pain problems are rooted in deep-set underlying conditions, often originating in a different part of the body than the part exhibiting symptoms.
Medication may mask your pain temporarily, but it isn’t going to solve a chronic underlying functional problem.
Read full blogPediatric Injuries Can Be Difficult – Here are Some Tips for Avoiding Them
Help Your Active Child Avoid Injuries with These Tips and Tricks!
Pediatric injuries typically fall into one of two categories: acute or overuse injuries. According to the National Library of Medicine,
“Acute injuries are usually physeal or avulsion fractures relating to a single traumatic event. Overuse injuries are the result of repetitive stress and include the common traction apophysitis, osteochondritis dissecans, and stress fractures. Sports-related injuries most frequently involve the lower extremity with injury patterns and frequencies relative to the athlete’s age, size, and type of sport.”
As proud as you are of your child’s bravery on the playground or playing field, a part of you still frets over the potential for injury.
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