It’s important to remember that physical therapy is only useful and effective when you’re prepared to do the work. Depending on the nature of your injury, this could mean pushing yourself hard when you’re with us and working on a few exercises on your own at home.
Aquatic physical therapy is often used in the non-weight bearing phase of athletic injuries. Many professional and Olympic athletes have turned to aquatic therapy for conditioning during healing and fast return to their sport.
There are many different modalities used in hand physical therapy. Therapeutic exercises can focus on everything from pain control, range of motion, strengthening, sensibility testing, and sensory discrimination.
After a serious sports injury or accident, arranging sessions with a physical therapist is a must. Without a PT's help, a patient may never be able to get back to the state they were in before the injury occurred.
When you perform repetitive tasks with your hands as part of your job, you may find that you’re at a greater risk for carpal tunnel syndrome. Rest assured that we’re always available to help you deal with this painful condition.
In the past couple of decades, the use of physical therapy sessions by pregnant women has become relatively common. Low back pain, sometimes caused by poor posture, is a common complaint during pregnancy.
When your doctor or hand therapist recommends an “orthosis,” what do they mean? An orthosis is an orthopedic device that aligns or corrects malformations or provides essential support to improve performance, encourage healing, or prevent re-injury.
Pediatric physical therapy focuses on patients in the first stages of life up through adolescence. The patient might have a congenital, developmental, or acquired disorder. Common goals include improving gross and fine motor skills, balance, coordination, cognition, and sensory processing.
Since our opposable thumbs are one of the features that separate us from animals, thumb mobility is crucial to many of our daily tasks. If you’re experiencing pain at the base of your thumb, our treatments could help.
There is a wide variety of reasons why a part of your body might be out of alignment, everything from how you stand to how you walk to how you sleep. Fortunately, a physical therapist can help pinpoint the problem and help correct your alignment.
The Achilles tendon is a strong fibrous cord that connects the muscles in the back of your calf to your heel bone. If you overstretch your Achilles tendon, it can tear (rupture) completely or just partially.
One of the oldest forms of physical therapy, orthopedic PTs focus on injuries and disorders of the musculoskeletal system, often rehabilitating patients after a crisis. Therapeutic exercise, muscle re-education, hot/cold packs, and neuromuscular techniques are all modalities used in this subdiscipline.
Arthritis in the hands can be a huge pain in more ways than one. However, you do not need to live with the discomfort and inconvenience it brings because your hand therapist can design therapies that will help you manage the condition.
Everyone recovers from medical conditions at different rates, so you should not compare your condition to that of someone else, nor should your physical therapy regimen be compared either. Your therapy is specific to your situation, and yours is created for your condition only.
Often, hand physical therapists will give you exercises to do at home to help improve the rate of your progress. Common exercises that can be done at home include the "prayer stretch" as well as wrist/finger flexions and wrist deviations.
Elbow tendinitis, more commonly known as tennis elbow, benefits greatly from a physical therapist's attention. Inflammation reduction, compression and rest followed by gentle exercises to strengthen the ligaments in the affected area is usually prescribed.
Unfortunately, physical therapy on your hand can’t be a one-size-fits-all program. That’s why our team will work with you to develop a physical therapy plan that makes the most sense for the type of injury you’re recovering from.
Physical therapy is not limited to adults and it can help children with chronic health conditions and injuries by developing physical strength and endurance, hence improving mobility.
Did you know many elbow fractures are fully healed in about 2 months? However, it might take you 3 months for it to be used normally after it is healed. You will most likely lose some mobility, motion, and strength, but our physical therapist will help you gain some, or even all, of that back.
Barbells can be used to help strengthen wrists. When holding a barbell horizontally, flex the wrist down in a controlled motion. Be sure not to use too heavy of a barbell to avoid damaging the thumb.
Soft tissue mobilization is a therapeutic body massage that helps reduce scar tissue adhesion, stiffness, pain and swelling and encourages muscle relaxation.
We realize that every patient’s hand pain can manifest itself in very different ways. If you’re concerned that a cookie-cutter approach to treatment won’t give you the results you need, it’s time to give physical therapy with us a try.
As your injuries heal and you complete exercises, you may notice rapid improvement in your pain and mobility. Consult your physical therapist before beginning a more strenuous exercise program.
Hand therapy allows you to effectively deal with issues you may face after an injury. Therapists can help you not just restore movement, but also regain feeling, build up strength and, perhaps most importantly, get back to what you were doing before the accident occurred.
