Kinesiotape
Ever wonder what that colored tape is you see athletes wearing? It’s called kinesiotape and has actually been around a few decades now but has become more popular and mainstream over the past several years. Many [Read More...]
Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
What’s the Big Deal About Hand Therapy?
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
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
“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
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!
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
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
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...]
