Sports Medicine

Active Adults, Weekend Warriors, and the ‘Not-So-Pro’ Athlete: How Sports Medicine Helps You Stay in the Game

Being active is great for your health – until pain, injury, or fatigue slows you down. Whether you’re someone who plays some pickup sports in your spare time, goes for regular weekend runs, does CrossFit, or just loves staying active, there’s always a possibility of pain or injury putting you on the sidelines. This is one of the places where sports medicine comes into play.

Sports Injury

5 Common Mistakes People Make After an Injury (That Delay Healing)

Getting injured is never part of anybody’s plan, but what you do afterward can make all the difference in how quickly and fully you recover. Whether it’s trying to push through an injury when you shouldn’t, delaying appropriate treatment, or returning to the activity too soon afterwards, there are many ways we can delay healing,

Sports Injuries

How Improving Flexibility Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

Unsurprisingly, sports injuries are fairly common – even among active, healthy individuals. Injuries like strains, sprains and bone fractures affect both professional and amateur athletes every day. When you consider the thousands of hours dedicated to sports each year, some number of injuries is probably inevitable, and this holds true for athletes young and old, regardless of their fitness levels.

Surgery

Can Physical Therapy Prevent Surgery? Here’s What You Need to Know

The advancements of modern surgery are undoubtedly some of the most impressive in all of medicine. Advancements in knowledge, tools and techniques have led to surgical outcomes that would have seemed miraculous a century ago. In fact, we’ve become so good at performing different types of surgeries, we often forget to consider just how invasive and dangerous it truly is.

Pain Management

Physical Therapy vs. Pain Medication: A Safer, Long-Term Solution

Whether from injury, illness, or surgery, pain is something we all must deal with at some point in our lives. When the pain is chronic or severe, it sometimes isn’t enough to just “grin and bear it”.  Sometimes, we need something more to help us tolerate it. Unfortunately, oftentimes this means relying on medication – usually opiate-based.

Rehabilitation

Post-Surgical Rehabilitation: The Critical Role of Physical Therapy

Modern surgical knowledge and technology is largely considered one of the great achievements of modern medicine. Many injuries and conditions that could have been fatal in the not-too-distant past can often be dealt with through relatively common surgical procedures today. Surgery has undoubtedly provided a tremendous amount of benefit to our modern world.

As is the case with anything that provides a benefit,

Hand Therapy

From Stiff to Strong: 5 Signs You Need Specialized Hand Therapy

There are few body parts we could say are more useful and necessary in our daily lives than our hands. We use them so frequently in our work, our play, our hobbies and chores, that it’s easy to take them for granted. That is until we start to experience stiffness, pain or weakness that affects our ability to perform even the simplest of tasks.