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Sleep and Healing

Sleep and Healing

Sleep is vital to all our body systems.  Making sure that you are getting a good night's sleep is very helpful in assisting your body to heal from injury or surgery.  Sleep is an important part of our physiology and is often an overlooked piece of the puzzle while you...

What is your Osteoporosis Risk? Take this short assessment

What is your Osteoporosis Risk? Take this short assessment

Here is a short assessment to take for yourself to assess your risk levels for osteoporosis: If your answers are leaning towards greater risk, please speak with your physician.  Please also check out our other blogs that feature osteoporosis topics.  There are things...

Herniated Disc:  Frontline Physical Therapy Approach

Herniated Disc: Frontline Physical Therapy Approach

Your spine is an amazing engineering marvel.  Multiple bones are stacked together linked by connecting joints and cushioned by small spongy disc tissue between the bones.  Multiple muscles connect to the spine.  Together, all of this design provides strength, control...

Frozen Shoulder:  “Unthawing” this condition

Frozen Shoulder: “Unthawing” this condition

Frozen Shoulder:  “Unthawing” this Disorder Most people have heard of this mysterious disorder of the shoulder joint but do not understand what it is.  The therapists at OPTSP are very familiar with patients who are dealing with this condition and the joint stiffness,...

Preventing Hand, Wrist, Forearm and Elbow Golf-Related Injuries

Preventing Hand, Wrist, Forearm and Elbow Golf-Related Injuries

The golf swing greatly relies on repetitive and coordinated arm motions to generate club head speed and to square the club head at impact.  Overuse injuries of the hand, wrist, forearm and elbow are common in golfers but can be minimized with education. As discussed...

Could the Pandemic have caused Your Neck and Back Pain?

Could the Pandemic have caused Your Neck and Back Pain?

Who would have ever thought isolating workers out of their offices would have lasted as long as it has?   While many workers have returned to their offices, some will be asked to continue to work from home indefinitely or at least part-time.   While workers were sent...

Can My Address Posture Influence My Backswing?

Can My Address Posture Influence My Backswing?

Have you ever received advice on a topic, pondered the concept briefly and filed it in your memory in the “it is nice to know but I am not going to implement it now” file?  Time ticks away and at a later date some thought or action triggers this advice to be recalled...

Golf:  Keeping Yourself in The Game

Golf: Keeping Yourself in The Game

Golf is a sport requiring the same body movement to be performed repetitively throughout the game and at the practice range.  Only putting gives us a break from the motion pattern. The average golfer’s score is approximately 100 for 18 holes and is most likely...

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