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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…
Benefits of Women’s Health Physical Therapy
Hab-it, an expert panel of women's physical therapists and personal trainers recently highlighted why it is important to choose a women's health physical therapist: Women's…
Pelvic Floor Spasm: Often Misdiagnosed When Assessing Pelvic Pain
Despite their commonality, pelvic floor musculoskeletal disorders too often go unrecognized during the evaluation of pelvic pain syndromes. Contemporary OBGYN highlighted this prevalent women's health…
PT Guide to Shoulder Impingement
Physical Therapist's Guide to Shoulder Impingement Shoulder impingement syndrome occurs as the result of chronic and repetitive compression or "impingement" of the rotator-cuff tendons in…
Increasing Physical Activity
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 68 percent of adults over the age of 20 are either overweight or obese (for…
Warmup Exercises Reduce ACL Injuries
Simple warmup exercises might be enough to prevent one of the most common serious knee injuries suffered by youth athletes, especially females. A study published…
Back Pain Is Often Over-Treated
Despite abundant evidence and published guidelines calling for conservative initial treatment of most back pain through methods including physical therapy and over-the-counter medications such as…
Bone Health
Physical therapists are experts in improving and restoring mobility and play an important role in ensuring optimal bone health. Healthy bones can help you stay…
