Presented by Steve Warfel, PT, DPT, MTC, CFMT, FFMT, FAAOMPT Concussion or brain injury result from an impactful force upon the cranium or whip motion that comes to a sudden arrest. Both injuries have the same result, collision of the skull with the brain. Fortunately, the brain has multiple layers [...]
Dear Valued Client, Greetings year from KinetiChain Integrated Manual Therapy! We hope everyone is having a great start to 2024 as we move into spring! We have started out this year as busy as ever and want to be able to accommodate all schedules. We ask all of you to schedule appointments ahead [...]
After a few weeks of seeing new patients, I felt the need to address this question as it came up in almost every single visit. There were a wide variety of dysfunctions and people over these two weeks, but I would like to focus on two specific cases. Case One [...]
The snow is flying and we are all starting to have visions of big sweeping turns through deep, untracked powder. Even though the mind is ready for this, the body needs proper conditioning for downhill snow sports. There are several areas that are essential to efficient, fast, strong, and injury [...]
Indoor cycling is growing in popularity in the cycling community but also globally in the health and fitness world. Companies like Peloton, Nordic Trac, and Zwift have come up with really innovative programs that have made indoor cycling fun. As a physical therapist, I have treated countess patients that have [...]
Stretching is something all of us do throughout the day. Reflexive stretching occurs with yawning, standing up and arching your back, reaching behind to grab something, bending over to pick something up, etc. All functional activities consist of contraction with shortening of agonist muscles, and reciprocal elongation of the antagonists [...]
Orthopedic manual physical therapists treat acute and chronic pain conditions affecting all areas of the body. When injury causes soft-tissue and joint restrictions that produce pain during movement, manual therapy can improve mobility, reduce pain, and restore normal functioning of the soft-tissues and joints.