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Some Unique Anatomical Features of our Hand that Enhance our Ability to Grip and Hold Objects (Post)
We have found that people are often interested to learn of the various anatomical features unique to the hand that enhance a human’s ability to grasp and hold on to things. This ability to firmly ...
Treating musicians with Physical Therapy(Post)How physical therapy can help symptoms associated with playing musical instrumentsMusicians are a population in physical therapy that don’t get much coverage. Their injuries may not come from the som ...
Everyday Uses for Neuromuscular Stimulation(Post)For many years, neuromuscular stimulation was used solely by healthcare professionals such as physical therapists for treating patient’s injuries. Athletes have now discovered the benefi ...
Choose To Act On Your Health, Or Risk Being Acted Upon(Post)Human nature can be an interesting study, so to speak, and many avenues of investigation could be pursued. One of those that is of particular interest as it pertains to health is that many of us ...
The Best Handheld Dynamometers(Post)Measuring hand strength and manual muscle testing helps identify deficits after local injury as well as providing information on a patient’s overall strength and health. The best way to measure hand ...
How to Use Cold Therapy across Diverse Patient Populations(Post)When faced with a choice of heat or ice, most patients, when they are at home, will choose heat. It feels better, more soothing, than say the sometimes shock of an ice pack. However, in most cases, ...
Laser Light Therapy in Physical Therapy(Post)A friend of mine recently told me her dermatologist was using Laser Light Therapy to successfully treat her eczema. I wasn’t surprised. With its time-efficiency and broad range of applications, L ...
Electrical Stimulation and the Treatment of Phantom Pain(Post)Phantom pain is pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there. Doctors once believed this post-amputation phenomenon was a psychological problem, but experts now recog ...
Happy National Physical Therapy Month! (Post)National Physical Therapy Month (NPTM) is a commemoration held each October by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). NPTM is designed to recognize the impact that physical therapists an ...
How To Measure Hip Abduction with a Handheld Dynamometer(Post)Hip abduction tests are performed in order to measure how much force a patient can exert while pulling their leg out to the side. It has become more and more common to use a handheld dynamometer t ...
Treatment for Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMD)(Post)Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain can be a significant problem in a selected number of patients referred to physical therapy. More than 10 million Americans complain of jaw pain. The tempor ...
Wolff’s Law and the Phenomenon of Stress Shielding in Hip Replacement Prosthesis(Post)Osteoarthritis is a condition that leads to the breakdown of the cartilage that covers the articulating surfaces of the bones that form a joint and is considered one of the leading causes for the nee ...