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Navigating Vertigo and Vestibular Issues: Tips and the Role of Physical Therapy

Healthy Living, Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy

Vertigo and vestibular issues can significantly disrupt one’s quality of life, making even simple tasks a challenge. Whether you’ve been recently diagnosed or have been dealing with these issues for a while, there’s hope for improved well-being. This article offers valuable tips for those suffering from vertigo or vestibular issues and discusses how physical therapy …

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Physical Therapy: Impacting Us Daily

Healthy Living, Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy

National Physical Therapy Month occurs every October as a way to build awareness of the role of physical therapy in our communities. Physical therapy is most often known for its corrective and rehabilitative purposes, but physical therapy can also be considered a valuable preventive practice to help avoid injury. What is physical therapy? Physical therapy …

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Boost Your Balance: Falls Awareness & Prevention

Healthy Living, Outpatient Services

Each September, we recognize Falls Prevention and Awareness Week. According to the CDC’s Injury Center monitors, every second of every day, an older adult (age 65+) falls in the U.S. 1 Additionally, CDC reports that 25% of Americans (age 65+) has at least one fall a year. One in every 5 of those falls will …

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Say Goodbye to Poor Posture, Reduce Your Headaches

Healthy Living, Physical Therapy

When we think of headaches, we often time think of sinus pressure, lack of sleep, stress, or dehydration… but did you know often times headaches can be a directly related to poor posture? When it comes to proper posture, your ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, and ears should all follow the same vertical line, with your …

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Suffer with Sciatica Pain physical therapy tips for weak core and hip muscles

Sciatica Relief Tips? Physical Therapy tips for weak core & hip muscles

Healthy Living, Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy

Suffering from Sciatica pain? You are in the right place for sciatica relief tips! Our physical therapist, Stephan LeBlanc, has provided sciatica relief tips targeting weak core & hip muscles so you can get your body moving with reduced pain. Low back pain and sciatica typically results from weak core and hip muscles. This weakness stresses …

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Outpatient Tips: What is Dry Needling?

Healthy Living, Physical Therapy

You may have recently heard the term “therapeutic dry needling” and now you are wondering, “Is this treatment right for me?” We are here to help! What is dry needling? Dry Needling uses a needle to produce a release in a particular trigger point. There’s no solution injected into the muscle, therefore the needle is …

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Save your golf swing from lower back pain

Healthy Living, Physical Therapy

It’s summertime and that means it’s time to unpack the golf clubs and hit the course. But what if you’re having immense amount of lower back pain? It could easily affect your ability to play. Peyton, our physical therapy assistant at Therapy Center’s Carencro location, has tips and exercises that can help improve your game. …

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Breathing Exercises: Improving Quality During COVID-19

Healthy Living, Occupational Therapy, Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy

During this unprecedented time, many of those in our communities have been impacted by the positive diagnosis of COVID-19. One of the more common complications from the virus is difficulty breathing as well as rebuilding muscle for those that have been put on a ventilator. While the listed exercises have been proven beneficial for chronic …

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Health Tips- The Big 5 of ACL Injury Prevention

Healthy Living, Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy, Sports Medicine

How to handle stress in the ever-changing healthcare industry

Healthy Living, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy

With words like eviction notice and budget cuts plaguing the news this year, healthcare professionals are experiencing added stress to an already stressful work environment. Administrators in nursing homes are often in a high-stakes decision-making role, making decisions at every level, from food vendors to patient care, in order to keep operations running smoothly. According to a recent study, health care providers …

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