Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

What’s the Big Deal About Hand Therapy?

August 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

In the most general sense, when one thinks about rehabilitation from an illness or injury, it is commonly thought that Physical Therapy has its focus on the lower extremities: the hip, knee, ankle, and foot for walking, [Read More...]

Frozen Shoulder

July 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

One day you wake up and your shoulder is sore? Slowly over time it starts to stiffen and the pain gets worse. A few months down the road, now you can’t lift your arm? This is more commonly known as Frozen Shoulder, but [Read More...]

Gaze Stabilization: How to Deal with Dizziness

April 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

“The room is not spinning, I just don’t feel right.” Some people have heard of the diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), when the crystals in one’s inner ear become dislodged and [Read More...]

Dry Needling: An Alternative to Managing Pain, Impairments and Disability

February 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Dry Needling (DN) is a skilled technique performed by a Physical Therapist using thin filiform needles to penetrate the skin and/or underlying tissues to affect change in body structures and functions for the evaluation and [Read More...]

My Doctor Told Me I have BPPV!

January 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

If you are experiencing either acute or chronic dizziness, you may have gone to the doctor and were given the diagnosis of vertigo or BPPV. Vertigo is a general term for dizziness and BPPV is a specific type of vertigo. [Read More...]

Axillary Web Syndrome: Signs, Symptoms and Treatment

December 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Axillary web syndrome, also known as axial cording, can be a side effect of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) or axillary node dissection (AND) – two types of surgery that involve removal of lymph nodes from the axilla [Read More...]

Picky Eating vs. Problem Feeding

November 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Did you know that a wide range of studies suggest that 20% of children, on average, struggle with some type of feeding or growth issue during the first 5 years of life? That’s 1 out of every 5 children! Learning to eat is [Read More...]