6 facts about Forward Head Posture
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So what do you thing about ART?
A curious look at Active Release Techniques (ART) and their effectiveness.
The Answer to “Natural Running”: Learn to Run by Watching Our Children?
Bruce Wilk, PT, OCS Annmarie Garis, DPT Barefoot and natural running advocates tell us to observe children run barefoot so that we many learn to run “naturally” in order to avoid and manage our own running related injuries. However, such statements are inherently flawed. As physical therapists, we know that children also ...
The Power of Connecting: How social media is changing healthcare
As consumers we are using social networks to manage just about every aspect of our daily ...
Ice Pack or Cryocuff after ACL Surgery?
Which provides a better outcome with respect to pain and narcotic use after ACL surgery - a cryocuff or regular ice pack? Both are routinely used during the early stages of PT after ACL surgery.
NY SportsMed Helps Runners Avoid Injury With New Book
The book is geared to runners at every level and it provides loads of information that runners (aka patients) can use before, during and after they run.
Considering Sleep.
We would correct a worker looking over his/her shoulder for 8 hours a day as soon as possible to help decrease their pain, but what about the 8 hours a patient is sleeping?
Is Sitting Lethal?
In the NY Times, Dr. James Levine, Mayo Clinic, calls excessive sitting, "a lethal activity.”