Are Pain Medications A Good Idea? By SportsMed Physical Therapy Pain medications aren’t without risk. Long term effects are controversial, because more often than not pain killer users are not well informed. As with any medicine, each person’s reaction to a pain killer will be different from each other. When evaluating the risks behind their usage, it’s best to talk to your doctor about specifics! Risks… Read More...
Fix Your Desk Job Posture By SportsMed Physical Therapy There are many detrimental health effects from sitting for 8+ hours per day, such as neck pain, shoulder pain, and low back pain. Solutions to this posture problem include utilizing standing desks or stability ball chairs, but to address the root cause of the problem, you will need to strengthen weakened muscles while releasing the tight ones…. Read More...
Read This Before Switching to a Standing Desk By SportsMed Physical Therapy The standing desk has been a trend for some time now. Many desk-bound workers are making the switch to avoid sitting, which has been labeled as a worse activity than smoking. Naturally, to avoid this one extreme people look to the other. But are standing desks really the solution? There are a few things to consider before… Read More...
The Road to Recovery Series: Back Pain Rehabilitation (Part 1) By SportsMed Physical Therapy This week we’re back with another post as part of our Road to Recovery series! We’re going to bring our focus onto back pain rehabilitation. We can’t stress this enough…those who sit too much are in trouble. Most likely, if your job has you sitting for most of the day, you risk getting injured, even… Read More...
Sitting Too Much? Another Reason to Change That. By SportsMed Physical Therapy Are you sitting too much? Most Americans will sit for 8+ hours per day. That’s a lot! Think about it…most people sit on the way to work, sit at work, sit on the way home, sit to eat, sit to watch TV, and sit to read. By now it’s safe to assume that we all… Read More...
The Road to Recovery Series: Neck Pain Treatment By SportsMed Physical Therapy Welcome to our new blog series, The Road to Recovery. This week’s road to recovery is focused on neck pain treatment, and how to overcome the causes of neck pain. Unfortunately, neck pain is just about as common as back pain, which are mainly caused by sedentary lifestyles. But, the good news is that there… Read More...
Shoulder Packing to Prevent Shoulder Injury By SportsMed Physical Therapy Learning to pack your shoulder is essential for almost every exercise you do. Shoulder packing will not only protect it, but will also give you more leverage when doing pulling or pressing movements such as Lat Pulldowns or Bench Pressing. What is Shoulder Packing? The shoulder joint has high amounts of mobility which is a good thing because it… Read More...
Strengthen Your Core to Relieve Back Pain By SportsMed Physical Therapy When you hear the term “core,” abdominal muscles may immediately come to mind. However, the core actually comprises much more than just the abs. The core includes all the deep and superficial muscles used to stabilize, align, and move the trunk of the body as well as the pelvis and hips.When you strengthen your core,… Read More...
