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Speech Therapy Helps Patient Overcome Swallowing Disorder From children learning to talk to adults whose ability to speak or swallow has been impacted by another health condition, speech therapy offers treatments to meet each individual’s goals. In the case of...

It’s essential to stay informed about popular health topics and separate fact from fiction. One such topic is knuckle popping and its supposed link to arthritis. Many believe popping your knuckles can lead to arthritis, but is this true? Let’s...

Physical Therapy for Breast Cancer Survivors One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year. Given its adverse effects, breast cancer recovery for survivors is complex. Usually, it involves a variety of health...

How do you make medical decisions? Do you have a plan? If you do, how do you come up with that plan? Does the clinician – a physical therapist or doctor – make all the decisions or is it a...

“Don’t round your back”, “Lift with your knees, not your back”, and “keep you back straight” are commonly used phrases for preventing lifting injuries. When looking at the research, these phrases fail to hold water. Lifting with a rounded low...

Walking is one of the best forms of exercise. I used to be resistant to this view. I considered walking as an on-ramp which led to moderate and high-intensity exercise. Walking is less threatening than most forms of exercise and...

Stretching is a natural part of all exercise. We stretch during gym class, before starting a group run, information during football practice. If kids don’t stretch they will never get the fancy Presidential Fitness bumper stickers for their parents. Should...

Analogies are wonderful tools for expressing ideas and explaining otherwise complex information. They are common in healthcare as clinicians often used them to explain a diagnosis or treatment. While analogies can simplify information and build understanding, they can also create...

Eliminating Wasteful Exams and Focusing on the Patient’s Needs Over the past several decades, healthcare providers have relied more on clinical special tests, laboratory tests, and imaging. Here’s the problem. Those tests don’t translate into better outcomes for patients. The...