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What Causes Lower Back Pain?
Lower back pain, or back pain in the lumbar region of the back, is the most common cause of absences from work in the United…
Can Physical Therapy Help an Old Injury?
Physical therapy has many benefits in helping to heal injuries. PT exercises and stretches can speed up recovery and even reduce reliance on medication during…
New Study Finds Wii Balance Board Helps Children With Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy, the most common motor disorder in children, affects over 750,000 people in the United States. Each year, 10,000 children are born who have…
What Causes Knee Pain and How Can I Treat It?
Millions of Americans deal with knee pain daily. For some, it’s bad enough to impair their ability to function and perform daily activities. Some people…
Physical Therapy Can Help Reduce the Risk of Opioid Use
In the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of people have died from opioid overdoses. Opioids, which are commonly prescribed to treat pain, can easily…
Best Exercises for Back Pain
Back pain is extremely common. Up to 80% of adults in the United States will have experienced back pain at some point in their lifetimes.…
Positive Belief Is Necessary for Physical Therapy Success
You’ve probably heard of the power of positive thinking. Starting with Norman Vincent Peale's 1952 book, The Power of Positive Thinking: A Practical Guide to…
What Are the Benefits of Balance Training?
When you think of balance, the first thing that comes to mind might be yoga. But balance is something that we utilize every day, many…
What Can Cause Cycling Knee Pain?
Cycling has many health benefits and can help with a variety of issues from lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease to reducing the amount of…
Study Finds Physical Therapy As Effective, Less Expensive Than Steroids
The American Physical Therapy Association recently highlighted a study published in the August 2014 Annals of Internal Medicine. This study, the first of its kind,…
Can TMJ Be Cured?
Millions of Americans suffer from TMJ disorders. That’s millions of people suffering from jaw pain due to a disorder in the jaw joint. TMJ disorders…
How to Manage Pelvic Floor Pain
Pelvic floor pain can be chronic and have a negative impact on the lives of people who suffer from it. For some, surgery or prescription…
Women’s Health Physical Therapy: 3 Insightful Reads
If you're looking for information on women's health physical therapy, you will find our 3 most recent blog posts and reposts very insightful: Pelvic Floor Spasm: Often…
(Women’s Health) Physical Therapy as a First Line of Defense Against Pelvic Disorders
It’s ironic that one year ago I was blogging about the benefits of women’s health physical therapy http://hab-it.com/blog/?p=199 . Here I am again, this time triggered…
