Health Blog Category: Natural Pain Relief
Get More Out of Your Workouts with A Proper Nutrition Plan!
A Nutritional Diet Can Help You Reach Your Physical Goals!
You are what you eat, so if your plan is to be the strongest, most powerful athlete you can be, then you need to eat the part. Focusing too much on the workouts and not enough on the nutrition side of becoming an athlete is a rookie mistake.
If you are heading out on a road trip, then you fill your car up with fuel.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Importance of Carbs
Eat less, move more. That is the weight loss mantra, the key to success, the secret to the obesity riddle that has left too many people unhealthy and uncomfortable for far too long.
The problem is that diet and exercise aren’t that simple to figure out individually; and they tend to become really complicated when you attempt to put them together.
Read full blogGet More Out of Your Workouts with Interval Training
Have You Heard of Interval Training?
If you want to make the most out of every minute that you spend at the gym, then high intensity interval training, or HIIT, might be exactly what you are looking for. This is one of the top trends in the fitness world at the moment, and for good reason.
With high intensity interval training it is possible to maximize the amount of calories that you can burn in a standard workout by really pushing your body to its limit.
Read full blogImprove Your Physical Performance with Blood Flow Restriction
Have You Discovered the Benefits of Blood Flow Restriction?
If you haven’t heard of blood flow restriction yet, you should give it a shot! According to the American Physical Therapy Association,
“Blood-flow restriction training can help patients to make greater strength training gains while lifting lighter loads, thereby reducing the overall stress placed on the limb.
By applying the right amount of external pressure to an extremity, it’s possible to maintain arterial inflow while occluding venous outflow distal to the occlusion site.”
If you’ve been at the gym recently and notice someone weightlifting with bands wrapped around their biceps, they are likely trying out a new training regimen called Blood Flow Restriction Training, or BFR.
Read full blogLooking to Add More to Your Workout Routine? We’ve Got You Covered!
Spice Up Your Workouts with These Tips!
It can happen to anyone. The lingering dread, the growing disinterest, the growing tendency to skip out on your workout, to let minor inconveniences interrupt the healthy activities that you’ve had planned.
A small change in your attitude, a few excuses here and there, and before you know what’s happened it’s been weeks since your last workout.
Maybe you fight through it; you show up at the gym and you go through the motions.
Read full blogAre You Living with Lower Crossed Syndrome? Physical Therapy Can Help
Have You Heard of Lower Crossed Syndrome?
Sitting for long periods of time in our daily lives has led to a shortening of our hip flexor muscles over time. Even athletes who do not spend much of their day sitting can have trouble with their lower back if they perform an exercise incorrectly over time or overwork certain areas of their body.
If pain in your lower back and hips is slowing you down, perhaps you are suffering from Lower Crossed Syndrome (LCS).
Read full blogA Physical Therapist’s Perspective on Chronic Back Pain
Out of all the conditions we diagnose and treat at our physical therapy clinic, chronic low back pain is one of the most common. We spend a lot of time educating our patients and their loved ones about this broad health condition—including why it happens and how to avoid it.
Because here’s the thing a lot of people may not realize:
Chronic back pain is not necessarily a “normal” part of aging, and it is possible to live with less pain and greater function even if you’ve been dealing with a troublesome back for years.
Read full blogHow Nutrition Can Decrease Inflammation and Pain
When people say they want to improve their diet, their inspiration is often to lose weight, avoid an allergy, gain muscle, improve their skin, or increase their athletic performance. What we don’t hear quite as often is, “I want to improve my diet in order to alleviate my chronic pain.”
The truth is, making some simple changes to your diet really can improve your pain! Call our office now if you’d like to schedule an appointment with a physical therapist who can help you start living pain-free.
Read full blogHow Physical Therapy Can Help Relieve Your Arthritis Pain (Without Opioids!)
Arthritis pain is one of the most frustrating types of pain. It is chronic, it is intense, and it can interfere with just about everything that you like to do throughout the day, from reducing your grip strength to making it difficult to shift between sitting and standing. There are many different types of medications that are recommended to help ease the discomfort of arthritis pain, but the use of long-term pain medication comes with its own set of complications and health risks, and since arthritis pain is not something that will naturally heal on its own, there is a growing danger of developing a dependency on an opioid based pain medication.
Read full blogPhysical Therapy Can Alleviate Your Stress-Related Headache
Whether you know it as a stress-related headache or a tension headache, that vise-like feeling along your forehead can be excruciating. In fact, it just may have you gobbling prescription and OTC medications like candy. But if you’re suffering from frequent bouts of these stress headaches, overdoing it on meds can lead to rebound headaches and even more serious problems.
Instead, consider physical therapy to reduce the frequency and severity of your stress headaches.
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