Tag: db Orthopedic Physical Therapy
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The importance of an annual exam with a physical therapist
By David Bertone, PT, DPT, OCS Are you active, suffer from nagging pain after activity, or ache at the end of the day from work? You might want to see your physical therapist for a physical therapy (PT) annual exam. P eople have a dentist, primary care physician and veterinarian for the pets that they…
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A pain-free New Year’s resolution
By Jerry Moczerniuk PT, DPT How many of you experience some form of regular or frequent musculoskeletal pain? Does your pain prevent you from living your life the way you would want? Pains such as low back pain, neck pain, and pain in the ankles, knees, hips, hands and shoulders are very common, and can…
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Movement ‘illnesses’
By Marisa Priolo, PT, DPT Where do you go when you feel sick? That’s right, the doctor. You get a medical diagnosis that describes an underlying problem that is causing your symptoms, then receive a treatment targeted to alleviate symptoms and ultimately resolve the illness. Then voilà! You are feeling better and back to your…
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Physical therapy and fall prevention
By Jessica Deak, PT, DPT Leaves are the only thing that should be falling around this time of the year. However, more than 1 in 4 older adults age 65 and over fall each year. Every 20 minutes an older adult will die from a fall. Falls are the second leading cause of accidental or…
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Physical therapy helps athletes reduce injuries
By Jerry Moczerniuk PT, DPT Does your child or grandchild play competitive sports? Injuries are unfortunately a big part of competitive sports. Football, soccer and gymnastics are among the sports with highest rates of major, season limiting/ending injuries in high school athletes. Sprains/strains account for 35.9% of those injuries, with sprains and strains of the…
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Physical activity can reduce mortality in patients with hip and knee arthritis
By Jerry Moczerniuk PT, DPT Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of global disability. According to the Arthritis Foundation, approximately 27 million people in the United States are diagnosed with osteoarthritis. With OA of the knee and hip joints resulting in most functional disabilities. Over the last decade there have been many studies…
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Are you a passive patient or active consumer of healthcare?
By David Bertone, PT, DPT, OCS Think about the last time you made a big purchase, say $1,000 or more. Did you go out and buy the first thing you saw? Take one recommendation from somebody? Or did you research it, learn some things, compare it to other options, and select something that was right…
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Concussion baseline testing for athletes is very important
By David Bertone, P.T., D.P.T, O.C.S. The easy part in concussion management is the diagnosis of concussion. It is very simple: you sustain a blow to the head or jolting of the head and you have symptoms, the athlete is concussed! The hard part is objectively determining when the athlete is truly ready to return…
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Treatment for low back pain should be individualized
By Jerry Moczerniuk PT, DPT db Orthopedic Physical Therapy In our practice we routinely see patients who come in with the complaint of low back pain. Low back pain is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, and it will affect most adults at some point in time during their lifetime.…
