Back Pain Articles & Expert Physical Therapy Tips

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Five Exercises to Improve Your Posture

Maintaining proper posture offers more than just aesthetic benefits. It is essential for developing strength, flexibility, and balance in the body, leading to reduced muscle pain and increased energy levels throughout the day. Adopting correct posture also alleviates stress on muscles and ligaments, minimizing the risk of injury. Additionally, there may be positive effects on […]

Written by on February 24, 2023

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Home Exercise Program After Discharge

The goal for our patients at Aquacare Physical Therapy is to achieve as close to a pain-free life as possible and improve mobility, function, and activity tolerance depending on each patient’s diagnosis. Therapists also assist in the distribution and education of a home exercise program that is performed and progresses throughout a patient’s course of […]

Written by on December 14, 2022

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Ergonomic Solutions To Help You Work Safely From Home

Despite one’s attempts to maintain good posture, sitting for long periods of time is just not healthy. It is important to move and change positions regularly. The old cliché “motion is lotion” or “rest is rust” is very true. Many people started working from home during the pandemic and may still be working at home. […]

Written by on March 30, 2022

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Know the Signs, Symptoms, and Key to Success After Having a Stroke!

May is National Stroke Awareness Month. Have you or someone you know had a stroke? A stroke, also known as a cerebrovascular accident, is a disease that affects the arteries leading to and within the brain which can deprive the brain of oxygen by either blood clots or ruptures of an artery. Different types of […]

Written by on February 10, 2022

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How The McKenzie Method of Physical Therapy Helps Back Pain

Neck pain? Back pain? Is it shooting down your arms or legs? How is your posture? The McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy is an evidence based approach to treating pain. Physical Therapist, Robin McKenzie, founded The McKenzie Method after working with patients, he found that certain planes of movement can affect pain and […]

Written by on April 30, 2021

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Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Attend Physical Therapy Following A Car Accident

Physical Therapy Helps Shorten the Recovery Process: Many people that are in a car accident don’t realize immediately that they may have received a serious injury. When they do realize how the injuries are affecting their everyday life, they may turn to pharmaceuticals or other opioids to decrease the pain. Today the opioid epidemic is […]

Written by on October 24, 2020

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Low Back Pain and Physical Therapy

Imagine that you just recently bent over to get the laundry out of the drier and “threw your back out.”  You now have low back pain, occasional pain radiating down your right leg, and are having significant difficulty walking, sitting, and sleeping comfortably.  Several weeks pass and you are thinking, “This will probably just go […]

Written by on May 6, 2020

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The Guide to Low Back Pain for Golfers with TPI

Titelist Performance Institute (TPI) “is the world’s leading educational organization dedicated to the study of how the human body functions in relation to the golf swing. TPI has analyzed how physical limitations in a player’s body can adversely affect the golf swing and potentially lead to injury.” Low back pain is the most common golf […]

Written by on April 5, 2019

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Golf-Related Low Back Pain Part 2

Now that you understand why low back pain occurs during golf from our post “Golf Related Low Back Pain Part 1: Why does it occur??” Let’s now talk about how you modify the causes of low back pain and reduce your low back pain.  Below are 3 strategies to reduce the stress placed on your lumbar […]

Written by on March 19, 2018

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Golf-Related Low Back Pain

Low back pain is extremely common in all parts of society and the golf world is not excluded. It has been reported that low back injury is the most common golf injury making up 25% of all golf injuries with injury rates varying from 18-54%. “Based on data collected at Titelist Performance Institute from over […]

Written by on February 28, 2018