Impact of Community
Community is important to physical and mental health. IPA Physio owner Gregory Vescera describes his journey in joining and developing a new community in Atlanta, GA.
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Why Posture DOES Matter
Recently, there has been an increase in the dialogue around posture. As a physical therapist who addresses posture and body mechanics with every client I work with, I want to share my viewpoint.
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Ergonomics 101
Regardless of sitting or standing, we are primarily static when at work. This is unavoidable to a degree. However, we can mitigate the detrimental impact of being static by implementing some simple adjustments to create an optimal ergonomic workplace.
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Evidence Based Dry Needling
The use of acupuncture needles in physical therapy, a relatively contemporary adjunct treatment, provides another modality to address pain and dysfunction. Treatments generally last 20 minutes and are preceded by joint and soft tissue mobilization/manipulation and movement reeducation.
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Stiff Neck Solutions
Waking up with a “kink in your neck” is never the way to get the day off to a good start. I, myself, have woken up with this problem on more than one occasion. More often than not this can be a very preventable problem when adhering to proper sleep postures and positioning.
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Shoulder Solutions: Part 1
Though conventional rehabilitation traditionally focuses solely on treating the shoulder complex, this joint is more often the victim than the culprit.
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Foot Structure and Function – Pronation
Some people think that pronation is bad. Pronation is a necessary motion that allows the foot to accommodate to the ground in a way that ideally reinforces stability and allows for a broad transference of force through the entire foot. It isn’t a bad thing. A lack of pronation can be just as detrimental as…
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Headache Causes and Solutions
At least 15% of American adults suffer from moderate-to-severe headaches. The cause is multi-factorial and can be triggered by many things, including: Brain injury/concussion Poor quality of sleep and/or poor sleep posture (i.e. not supporting your head in a neutral alignment while sleeping) Poor posture (slouching while sitting at your computer, constantly looking down at…
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Get Supported and Get to Sleep!
Tips and Strategies for a Better Night’s Sleep Continuing on in our blog series to enhance your sleep quality, this post focuses on sleep posture and positional supports. I hope this finds you resting more effectively after deploying some of the strategies detailed in our previous posts on improving your sleep hygiene and have come to appreciate…
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Accelerated Recovery & Superior Results with Laser Therapy
What is Laser Therapy? Low level laser therapy is a technology that uses a combination of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers diodes to bathe diseased or traumatized tissues with photons. These particles of energy are selectively absorbed by the cells in your body resulting in a cascade of reactions leading to the restoration of normal…
