Interdisciplinary care is a coordinated, patient-centered approach that integrates separate disciplines to achieve common management goals. Patients are typically empowered to be part of the decision-making process and work together with each specialty to create [...]
Up to 85 percent of Americans experience back pain at some time in life. Low back pain is the most common cause of job related disability and the leading contributor to missed days at work. [...]
Increasingly I am seeing more and more fibromyalgia patients on my massage table. Often, they are apprehensive about massage because they have been in pain for so long and are tired of being in pain. [...]
Take a second, take a breath, listen to your body, and feel your day to day stresses that need to be expelled. In my four years of experience as a massage therapist I have had [...]
When you live on an island, you develop a special relationship with the water. We paddle, swim, surf, and SUP for exercise, live in our bathing suits, and are never far from a beautiful beach [...]
It is often said that the best result of a massage is when the client falls asleep. This comment has made me upset that this is such a huge general misconception. I have always viewed [...]
Late last year I had to take my Mom to the ER due to feeling so weak and lethargic and have been having diarrhea, nausea and vomiting the whole day. When we got to the [...]
The field of Physical Therapy has made substantial advancements in recent years. Most recently, there has been a collective shift from long periods of bed rest following injury or surgery in favor of an immediate [...]
Urinary incontinence (UI) affects 1 in 4 of all reproductive-aged women, and 1 in 2 of all post-menopausal women. Incontinence is a significant health problem with considerable social and economic impacts that greatly impairs quality [...]
Types of Compression Fractures A vertebral compression fracture occurs when part of an individual bone of the spine (vertebra) becomes compressed. Vertebral compression fractures can be caused by osteoporosis, trauma, and diseases affecting bone. The [...]
