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Correct Sleeping Positions: What is the Proper Way to Sleep?
A good night’s rest should leave you feeling energized and refreshed. However, if you are like many individuals, restlessness and post-sleep pain is a regular occurrence. This can negatively impact your everyday life. So, what is the proper way to sleep? The good news...
Cold Weather Concerns: Potential Injuries Due To Slipping And Falling On Ice
As the days become colder, the chances that you’ll encounter slippery pavement increases. You could be walking down your front steps, driveway, or in a parking lot and fall down due to slick or icy ground. A range of injuries can result, from bruising and sprains to a...
How Physical Therapy Can Help Relieve Jaw Pain & TMJ Disorders
The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) enables jaw movements, such as opening and closing your mouth. Experiencing pain or discomfort in your jaw or near the ears could mean you have a TMJ disorder. Knowing the symptoms of the condition and identifying the causes are the...
How Does Cupping Therapy Encourage Healing?
Cupping therapy has seen a recent surge in popularity among physical therapists. Professional athletes have also called attention to this treatment for its healing properties. Most prominently, Michael Phelps relied on this therapy for muscle tension relief...
Keep Your IT Band in Check to Keep Running
Running is beneficial for its health benefits. These benefits include improved cardiovascular health, weight loss, and stress relief. But, like with any sport, there is risk for injury. One of the most common injuries in running is knee pain. Knee pain can be...
Reducing Back Pain Through Improved Core Strength & Mobility
The core of an apple is not the most delicious part, but it is definitely an essential structure of the fruit. It keeps the skin and meat of that yummy apple that you’re biting into together and whole. The same could be said about your body’s core. The bones of the...
How Long Will it Take for My Injury to Heal?
At Absolute Treatment one of the first questions patients ask in their PT evaluation with us is, “How long will it take for me to get better?” In reality, we don’t have an exact time frame. We can give patients a predicted healing time based on our research and...
Warm Up Before You Wander
Whether you are an experienced hiker or backpacker, there are many things to consider when hitting the trails. Weather, foods, hydration, backpack weight, proper footwear, routes and more all need to be evaluated before setting out. Further, because hikers are...
Calf Stretching 101
Have you noticed that your calves are tight no matter how much you stretch them? You may be stretching only one of the muscles that make up your calves. Let's go through a little anatomy lesson. Coming up from your heel is a thick band of tissue that makes up your...
Physical Therapy and Migraines
Headaches and migraines affect a large portion of the world's population and are described by the type and location of pain in the head. Many headaches are harmless and resolve on their own. However, frequent moderate to severe headaches can impact your ability to...
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