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Prioritize Your Well-being: The Importance of Annual Health Check and Musculoskeletal Screen with Your Physical Therapist

Prioritize Your Well-Being: The Importance of Annual Health Check and Musculoskeletal Screen with Your Physical Therapist   Maintaining good health involves more than just occasional doctor visits; it requires a proactive approach that includes regular check-ups for various aspects of your well-being. One often overlooked but crucial aspect is your musculoskeletal health. Integrating an annual […]

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Ways to Stay Active This Holiday Season

Ways to Stay Active This Holiday Season   The holiday season is a time of joy, celebration, and often indulgence. While rest and relaxation are often tempting, staying active is crucial for your overall well-being. Staying active and maintaining a semblance of an exercise routine may seem like an impossible task with a calendar full […]

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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy

Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy   During the holiday season, we tend to have deficient sleep and high stress levels. This added stress can target the central nervous system and your body will go into “fight or flight” mode causing the pelvic floor muscles to tense up and become overactive. Pelvic floor tension can increase stress […]

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October is Physical Therapy Month!

Physical Therapy and Tennis   Physical Therapy is an effective treatment option, and helps to improve quality of life, manage pain and chronic disease, recover from injury and maximize movement.   Physical therapists are movement experts who treat people of all ages and abilities to improve their physical function and fitness. We work with you to develop […]

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Top Exercises to Help Improve Balance

Exploring the Power of Balance   Balance is more than just a physical state; it’s a harmonious blend of physical, mental, and emotional elements. In the context of physical therapy, balance refers to the body’s ability to maintain stability while performing everyday activities. This includes tasks like walking, climbing stairs, and even standing on one […]

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Running: Gait Cycle & Proper Foot Strike

So, running… You might have decided to take it up over the past year. But did you know there’s a good way and a bad way to run?   The motion that your body moves through while running is called a “gait cycle”.   The complete gait cycle consists of two phases:   Stance phase, […]

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What Is Manual Therapy? A Beginner’s Guide

A lot of patients mistakenly think physical therapy is just exercise programs and modality regimes for pain. Although both exercise and pain modalities are important pieces to a comprehensive physical therapy plan of care, manual therapy is proven to reduce recovery times, increase range of motion, and improve overall tissue mobility. Manual therapy is basically […]

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Let’s Talk about Lower Back Pain

        Lower. Back. Pain. We all know it, we’ve all experienced it and we all want it to go away. At any given time, 25% of people living in the United States have lower back pain (LBP). That is a quarter of the country, A QUARTER! While most pain subsides and goes […]

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Stretches for Elbow Pain

  Do you struggle with common elbow pain? Team IPT is going to share some stretches and exercises for your tennis and golfer’s elbow! Innovative Physical Therapy, “Solutions in Motion” 619-260-0750 info@innovativept.net

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Suffering from Elbow Pain?

Do you suffer with elbow pain? This is a common ailment caused by various reasons. Read on as we address two of the most common elbow conditions – Tennis Elbow and Golfer’s Elbow. Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis), is a painful condition of the elbow caused by overuse or repetitive wrist extension activities. Wrist extension activities […]