Records of the healing power of the human touch and massage date back to the Egyptians in 2000+ BC. Massage has been used through the centuries to treat ailments. Since the 1900’s developments in all areas of soft tissue have helped to make this evidence-based practice more reliable. Work by Cyriax in the 1920s helped […]
Knee Pain Relief With 2 Simple Home Exercises
Cursory bending or kneeling shouldn’t’ ever mean you need to live with knee pain. If you are between visits to your physical therapist and you want to stretch out your knees, here are two home exercises you can try. Remember if you are or have been under the care of a physical therapist you should […]
“No Knees Past Toes” is No Myth
There is a pretty famous saying for those in the physical therapy and fitness world: There should be “no knees past toes” when you are stretching. This includes squats and lunges and this is for both athletes and for regular folks who are recovering from injury using physical therapy. So this is something that has […]
Knee Related Movement Pain is Unnecessary
There was a sobering statistic in the March issue of The American Physical Therapy Association’s newsletter PT in Motion about knee related movement pain that all people should be aware of. 8.5% is the number and you may even find yourself in this group. In 2014 8.5% of the population of the United States admitted that […]
Home Stretches for Your Calf Muscle
Now that we have learned just what the calf muscle is, it’s important to know how to stretch the two parts of the calf muscle when you are not in your physical therapists office. Of course you should always follow whatever course of therapy your physical therapist prescribes. But if you have the go-ahead to […]
