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athletes, sports injuries, treatment diagnosis, pain, physical therapy, sports injuries
Physical Therapists’ education, training, and skill set allows our profession to uniquely evaluate and treat the needs of both acute
athletes, Exercise, prevention, running, sports injuries, triathlon endurance athletes, heart rate, overtraining, running
Aerobic exercise has a tremendous impact on our morbidity and mortality due to its' ability to positively impact our emotional,
athletes, Exercise, prevention, running, sports injuries adolescents, overuse injury, prevention, sports injuries
Over the last few years there has been a spike in athletic injuries in our community's youth and adolescent athletes.
athletes, Exercise, running, sports injuries, triathlon older adults, running, running economy, speed
Running is one of the most common forms of exercise due to its' wide appeal, minimal equipment needs, and aerobic
athletes, elbow pain, Exercise, prevention, shoulder pain, sports injuries baseball, elbow pain, physical therapy, shoulder pain, sports injuries
Shoulder and elbow injuries are on the rise among youth and professional baseball players.  Our previous post on baseball injuries detailed
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There are disagreements on how to best manage acute low back pain, see our prior blog post on physical therapy
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Arm Injuries in ThrowersThrowing injuries among baseball players are on the rise with a 54% and 58% increase in disability
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Low Back Pain Background InformationLow back pain is a common disorder affecting up to 90% of people in the lifetime
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Currently, consumers have many choices of where to obtain Physical Therapy services for their pain and sports injuries.  One option
Arthritis, Exercise, knee arthritis, knee pain, Manual Therapy, prevention, strengthening knee arthritis, knee pain, knee replacement, manual therapy, physical therapy
Knee Arthritis Background InformationOsteoarthritis (OA) costs have risen to 13.2 billion dollars per year and are the leading cause of
Arthritis, back and leg pain, low back pain, MRI, spinal stenosis, treatment injections, leg pain, low back pain, lumbar radiculopathy, spinal stenosis
The use of lumbar corticosteroid injections is often utilized for patients with back and leg pain (radicular pain) and/or leg