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One of the biggest fears of many athletes is having a sports injury that would cause them to miss their favorite games or, even worse, have to give up on sports altogether. However, sports injuries do not have to take away the things you love from you. With the right physical therapy focused on sport-related […]

Aqua jogging is a common cross training technique for runners. It can be used to keep up fitness while being injured or to add during a training cycle. When done correctly aqua jogging can be a great tool for maintaining fitness during an injury or to add to a training regimen. A few easy tips:

When you hear about stretch therapy, the first thing that possibly pops into your mind is a picture of a person stretching before or after their workout or yoga. While this could be a component of stretch exercise, the scientific purpose of stretch therapy goes beyond that. Stretch therapy involves the scientific application of a

What is fascia? “Fascia is a sheath, a sheet, or any other dissectible aggregations of connective tissue that forms beneath the skin to attach, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs” (1,2) How can fascia impact your body? Fascia can restrict mobility if it becomes too tight, or bound up. Tense fascia can occur

Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine that centers on the patient and approaches an illness by identifying its root cause and using a combination of therapies to treat the patient. Practitioners of functional medicine believe that a diagnosis can have more than one cause, and it is better to trace the roots of