Lets look at some of the benefits physical therapy brings in the life of menopausal women:
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How Physical Therapy Boosts Mental Health
Studies shows that exercise can treat mild to moderate depression as effectively as antidepressant medications.
Hot or Cold: What’s the Best for Back Injuries?
Back injuries aren’t just painful; they’re also crippling. Many of the things we do, from sitting to bending over, depend on the health of our back musculature and bones. When these fail, we get injured. The ensuant pain and dependence on others tend to be intolerable, so we seek ways to remedy the injury.
Two of the most common home remedies are icing and heating the back. However, it’s not always apparent which treatment to opt for; in fact, making the wrong choice can worsen your pain. Here’s when to use heat or ice to remedy your back pain.
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Sprained Ankles: The Most Common Sporting Injury
Ankle sprains aren’t exclusive to professional athletes. If you’ve recreationally played sports, jog or exercise, or even if you’ve just tripped, you’ve probably run into a sprained ankle at least once. In fact, even if you walk, you’re at risk of sustaining an ankle sprain. For instance, women that walk in high heels are at greater risk of spraining their ankles (they’re also generally at a higher risk than men).
However, ankle sprains are still especially prevalent in sports. They’re responsible for approximately 15% of all sports injuries. Here’s how ankle sprains occur, how to prevent them, and how a physical therapist can help.
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3 Injury-Prevention Exercises for Seniors
A healthy lifestyle can’t eliminate the travails of aging, but it can make them significantly easier. As we age, we’re at greater risk for sustaining some illnesses and injuries. Reduced balance, obstructed joint mobility, and more put seniors at risk of sustaining injuries through things like falling.
Those who don’t exercise will be at an even greater risk of injury. However, with the right guidance and therapy, seniors can improve function, strength, and more. Here are some prehabilitation exercises for injury prevention.
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What is Acupressure and How Does it Work
Pain or discomfort can impact our capacity to function in our daily activities. Experts estimate that, in the United States, 4 billion workdays are lost to pain annually. There are two types of pain; acute and chronic pain. Acute pain is short-lived pain that is normally the body’s response to an injury, while chronic pain lasts for longer than a period of three months.
Pain can be mild or extreme and usually can be as small as a dull ache or as painful as a sharp stab. Therefore it is necessary to find methods that help relieve chronic pain and discomfort.
Many pain management strategies help individuals with their chronic or short-term pain. These include; pain-relieving medicines, physical therapy, psychological therapy, meditation and relaxation techniques, mind and body techniques, such as acupuncture and acupressure, and various others that help the body recover and heal.
A common and effective body technique that is known to improve health and reduce pain is acupressure. Here’s what you need to know about it and how it works: