What is Alter G and How Can It Help Me?
Have you recently suffered an injury or had surgery on your leg, foot, or hip? And do you wish there were a faster way to recover from your injury or surgery?
Why You Need Physical Therapy After a Fall
So you’ve had a fall, now what? Most individual’s reaction is to avoid physical activity to lessen the risk of another fall but in truth, that is the last thing that you should do.
How Physical Therapy Helps Retirees Keep Dreams Alive During the Golden Years
Are you among the millions of Americans who have high aspirations for how you’ll spend the extra time during your post-retirement years? Whether you plan to travel the world, start cooking more, spend more time fishing or sign up for a golf league, your physical fitness level will be a factor.
Why You Should Visit Your Physical Therapist Before Your Next Run
Summer is here and that means everyone from the elite runner to the weekend hiker will be out and about trying to shake off the winter blues. As you increase your activity level, you may find that you aren’t as physically capable as you once were, or maybe you have been ignoring a nagging pain for far too long or perhaps there’s a longer race distance looming on the horizon.
Cypress Physical Therapy Celebrates Grand Opening in LaPlace
St. John the Baptist Parish - On Monday, September 19, 2016, Parish President Natalie Robottom's Administrative staff, Council Chairman Marvin Perrilloux, Small Business Advisor Eliza Eugene, Sheriff Mike Tregre and Representatives from the River Region Chamber of Commerce joined owner Chris Cancienne, wife Aimee, and family and friends for a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of Cypress Physical Therapy, LLC.
How to Avoid Injury During Exercise?
One set back many people experience when they start a new exercise routine is an injury. Making a lifestyle change can be hard, and injuries from exercise can deter people from staying committed to their goals.
What is Sports Therapy?
What is sports therapy? Whether it is through sport, work or the effects of every day living, our muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascial tissue are constantly being overloaded and damaged and thus we seek pain relief for our muscle pain and sports injury. The sports massage and techniques that I use will act as an effective treatment to both eradicate pain and aid recovery following injury and muscle dysfunction, and therefore offer quick relief and healthcare benefits.
Is Your Child’s Backpack Helping or Hurting Them?
August means the end of Summer and back to school! One issue frequently overlooked during the back to school craze, is how the weight of your child's backpack effects their musculoskeletal health. In the video below, Maria Marchetti, PT, NCS describes the proper way to wear a backpack and offers tips to lessen the impact on your child's back.
Dry Needling by a Physical Therapist: What You Should Know
Dry needling is a technique physical therapists use (where allowed by state law) to treat myofascial pain. The technique uses a “dry” needle, one without medication or injection, inserted through the skin into areas of the muscle, known as trigger points.
Therapy Found Effective for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Customized physical therapy may be a useful way to ease low back pain, which affects an estimated 31 million Americans a new study says. Researchers from La Trobe University observed that ‘many patients with low-back disorders persisting beyond 6 weeks do not recover.