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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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Benefits of Physical Therapy: Third Trimester

Physical Therapy, Women's Health

Do you wish that you were better prepared for the changes that your body will undergo through the next nine months of pregnancy? Our physical therapist, Kassy Zerangue, knows the motherhood journey well. She developed the tips below to help moms understand some of the body changes they can expect to see when they’re expecting. …

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Benefits of Physical Therapy: 5 Tips for the Second Trimester

Physical Therapy, Women's Health

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Benefits of Physical Therapy: 4 Tips for the First Trimester

Physical Therapy, Women's Health

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Success Story: Therapy Center Lafayette

Outpatient Services, Physical Therapy, Therapy Success Stories

After an elevator accident at his camp, Mr. Paul, better known as “Pod”, suffered two thoracic vertebrae burst fractures as well as bilateral femoral and tibial fractures. After a long hospitalization, Pod came to Therapy Center to work on his back, legs and ankles. “When he first came to therapy, Pod was reliant on …

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