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“It’s funny how this is so hard when I close my eyes,” the patient says as I stand guard ready at any moment should a sway turn into a fall.  Actually it makes sense.  Our balance relies on input from our eyes, muscles, and inner ear.  When you take one of those three inputs away […]

Patients ask me what my opinion is on taking the supplements glucosamine and chondroitin for arthritis.  So, for our monthly journal club I decided to read an article published in the September British Medical Journal (BMJ) on this topic.1  Researchers analyzed randomized controlled trials that studied the effect of supplements glucosamine and chondroitin on pain […]

Planks are a great exercise to work on your core strength, posture, and abs and I use them frequently in physical therapy.  If you haven’t ever done these before you should consider giving them a try to improve your strength and stability, also known to trim a muffin top.  Be sure when you do planks […]

Like most people, I’m right-handed.  So when I switched my mouse yesterday to click using my left hand, naturally it felt well, UNnatural.  Using a mouse with your non-dominant hand is about as frustrating as not being able to buy “You’re the Best” for your ipod unless you buy the entire Karate Kid soundtrack or […]

Today I helped a high school athlete return to competing in a cross country meet and not only that, meet a personal best and without knee pain.  In just 2 short sessions.  Ok, so I know I’m  bragging, but I was really proud of this accomplishment, which was 75% the effort of my patient and […]

Want to read more about physical therapy?   Here’s a list of physical therapy blogs targeted to the general public: (If you know about any other physical therapy blogs aimed at the public that is not in this list, please leave the URL in the comments section below!) Move Forward PT The Consumer website of the […]

Maybe you’ve heard of the “obesity epidemic” as its recently been mentioned in the news.  What specifically is obesity?  To tackle this worldwide problem we must first take a step back and define what it is and why it’s a problem. Obesity is defined as being 120% or more than ideal body weight.  According to […]