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Plantar Fasciitis: Can physical therapy help my foot pain?

One out of ten people in the U.S. experience persistent pain along the bottom of the foot, a condition known as plantar fasciitis. In this country alone, outpatient clinics receive over one million visits per year from people seeking help for this type of foot pain. Updated clinical practice guidelines present evidence that strongly supports…

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The Importance of Dynamic Stretching and Examples You Can Perform Before Every Workout – Dr. Nick Barin

What is dynamic stretching and why is it important before I workout? With the nice weather (hopefully) coming to Chicago soon, it is important for individuals who want to return to sport related activities to establish a proper warm-up routine. Dynamic stretching is defined as a motion that is performed with movement for a functional…

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The Myth of Hypermobility – Jeff Bitter

Hypermobility Myths Many of the patients that we see have an instability component to their problem. Joint instability is common in the shoulder, low back, knee, and foot/ankle and is a large contributing factor leading to many orthopedic problems. Joints (connections of bone to bone) are supported by ligaments, the main job of the ligaments…

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Thank You to 5 Great Years and Many More to Come! – Geoff Winston

To Our Current, Former, and Future Patients, and Those Seeking Physical Therapy: As Core PT enters its six year anniversary, we recently took some time to re-read and reflect on what was written in 2013. It only seems like yesterday when we were trying (read: struggling) to articulate what we wanted Core Physical Therapy to…

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Physical Therapy: 5 Things to Remember about Core Stability

Core stability has been an increasingly important component of many people’s exercise regimen. Fitness and Medical professional concerned with human movement have been talking about a stable core for years. The problem is that it is a poorly defined area of fitness. What exercises are the best for to achieve a stable core? Does core…

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Gravity vs Posture: the battle you are losing at your desk

Almost everyday I have a new patient with complaints of neck, upper back, and/or arm pain. There is often no mechanism of injury, but maybe only a minor trigger that set things off. Most of the time the patient states, “I slept funny.” 90 percent of these patients are working adults that spend 40+ hours…

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Effectiveness of Spinal Manipulation by Physical Therapists

Spinal Manipulation is 92% Effective for Specific Acute Low Back Pain Patients A study performed by a group of physical therapists at Baylor University demonstrated that 63% of the sample of patients (n=70) experienced greater than 50% reduction in disability with grade V spinal manipulation coupled with range of motion exercise. Of those with favorable…

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Interested in Dry Needling? Learn more here!

In the treatment of trigger points for persons with myofascial pain syndrome, dry needling is an invasive procedure in which a filiform needle is inserted into the skin and muscle directly at a myofascial trigger point. A myofascial trigger point consists of multiple contraction knots, which are related to the production and maintenance of the…

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Frozen Shoulder? Let us thaw it out!

An Investigation of Physical Therapy Intervention for Frozen Shoulder (Adhesive Capsulitis) Adhesive capsulitis, or frozen shoulder, is a disorder that causes pain, stiffness and loss of range of motion, and primarily affects individuals between 40 and 60. If left untreated, adhesive capsulitis can go on to be an extremely debilitating condition for a long period…

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Sam Travis finishes his Rehab with Core PT

Another great outcome with collaboration and hard work. I would like to say thank you and good luck to Sam Travis, 1B for the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox. It was a pleasure working with an amazing athlete and club. We look forward to seeing Sam in the starting 1B position for the Boston Red Sox…

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