Pain Relief & First Aid

After having a cast removed, it is normal to experience pain, stiffness, and decreased range of motion. Physical therapy helps promote better results for regaining muscle strength and range of motion. With the option to use resistance bands, here are 8 exercises that can help you get your lower extremities moving!

Whether it is our weekend warriors, our home project DIYers or our friends that seem to walk into every corner in their own home, utilizing some in home pain relief can help manage those minor symptoms.

You might be feeling restless after abdominal surgery and ready to get back to activity, but it's important you heal first. Recovery from abdominal surgery requires you to slowly rebuild your stomach muscles.

Over-the-counter soft braces are prefabricated, commercially available supports made from materials such as neoprene, elastic knit, fabric, or soft composite blends. Some may have rigid support stays built within them to offer more stability along with comfort.

The new Sammons Preston hot and cold packs are more than just another line of heat and cryo-therapy packs. This is a comprehensive line of products intended to make ordering, treating, and healing easier.

Healthcare professionals rely on both cryotherapy (cold therapy) and thermal therapy (heat therapy) to manage pain, control inflammation, and promote faster recovery. While both methods support healing, they work through different physiological mechanisms.

Opioids are chemicals that interact with the opioid receptors in your nerve cells. They can be natural, created from the opium of poppy plants, or synthetic, created using chemicals in a lab. The term opiates is sometimes used to refer specifically to natural forms. Opioids reduce pain, but they also cause a feeling of euphoria, a “high”, which is why they can be misused.

If you’re a physical therapy clinic seeing a lot of students coming in with back pain, you may want to consider offering backpack screenings to assess children and the backpack they’ve chosen to see if it’s a proper match.

As I have grown up around golf there has always been a discussion about if golf is a “real sport” and if it is not a “real sport” then of course there is little to no chance you can get injured. As research shows, that’s just not the case.