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The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

The Balancing Act: Changing Pain

Alex Wilkins2023-12-15T00:21:40-05:00March 7th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Physical Therapists News, General Information, Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Wellness Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, health, wellness, chronic pain, pain, balance, stress, Perception, Pain management, Nociception, Suffering, Acute pain, Low back pain, Psychological stress, Organ systems, Dyspareunia, The Creative Healing Shift|

A recent National Institutes of Health study determined that nearly 50 million American adults have chronic pain and nearly half of those are reported to have severe pain. Our society and culture has provided many of us with many wonderful amenities of life, but at the same time, it has created a wide array of stressors and unhealthy activities. This can make it difficult to find balance in mind and body. Often, these imbalances can contribute to causing chronic pain, [...]

Exploring Cryotherapy

Exploring Cryotherapy

OneTherapy2018-10-16T17:39:11-04:00January 16th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Cryotherapy Articles, Pain Management Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, General Information|Tags: Biology, Hypothermia, Psychological stress, Norepinephrine, TAAR1 agonists, Biogenic amines, Catecholamines, Neurotransmitters, Physiology, Medicine, stress, cryotherapy|

Cold Shocking the Body: Exploring Cryotherapy, Cold Water Immersion, and Cold Stress Written by Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick, Ph.D. Reproduced with permission. This report and all of the content I produce is sponsored by people like you! Click here if you’d like to learn more about how you can make more great content like this happen. Download This Report and Support Dr. Patrick. Are you stressed? Let’s hope so! Most of us probably think of stress primarily as a bad thing... and it [...]

Medical Benefits of Cryotherapy

OneTherapy2018-10-16T15:06:23-04:00January 16th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, Pain Management Articles, Cryotherapy Articles|Tags: AutoPlay|

Dr. Oz Demonstrates Whole Body Cryotherapy Whole body cryotherapy (WBC) is a safe, pain-free treatment that cools the exterior layer of skin with sub-zero blasts of air for up to three minutes. During your treatment, your body will activates several mechanisms that promote significant, long-term benefits, both medical and aesthetic. Pain Management - The anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties of cryotherapy can drastically improve the effects of muscular and joint disorders such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid, osteoarthritis, and [...]

Changing the Pain Game // Chronic Pain Fix

Changing the Pain Game // Chronic Pain Fix

Alex Wilkins2023-12-19T07:40:12-05:00December 13th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Physical Therapists News, Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Wellness Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, chronic pain, pain, recovery, back pain, Perception, Nociception, Spinal disc herniation, Acute pain, Low back pain, Nervous system, Nerve root, Radiculopathy, Piriformis syndrome, Lance Cross, Organ systems, Psychogenic pain|

Lance Cross PT, MPT, OSC, CMTPT Four times as many people in the U.S. truly suffer from chronic pain compared to those who suffer from diabetes, heart disease and cancer and the medical community is playing catch-up. Have you or someone you know been left to feel hopeless or invalid because past treatments have failed or doctors haven’t been able to explain the causes of your chronic pain? I’m of the opinion that, far too often, our well-intended pharmaceutical, therapeutic, [...]

Strong & Healthy

Strong & Healthy

Alex Wilkins2023-12-20T05:15:30-05:00November 15th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles|Tags: sports, personal training, weights, weight lifting, exercise, strength training, Exercise physiology, Human behavior, Physical exercise, Muscular system, Strength and conditioning coach, Functional training, Kinesiology, Pectoralis major, Weight training, Musculoskeletal system, Skeletal muscle, Reduced muscle mass, strength and performance in space, Form, Football strength, Physiological effects in space|

Developing a Strong, Healthy Body There are a few qualities that everyone pursues in the journey to health, performance, and aesthetic/other personal objectives. Almost everyone’s physical goals fit within those three categories. The qualities that make up our goals can usually be found in building muscular strength, muscular size, speed, endurance, altering body composition, and weight loss/gain (i.e. a wrestler cutting weight). The key difference in pursuing these goals is in the vastly different paths it takes to reach them. [...]

Foam Rolling for Recovery

Foam Rolling for Recovery

OneTherapy2020-04-07T12:05:40-04:00July 4th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Performance Enhancement Articles, Prevention Articles, Massage Therapy Articles, Tennis Medicine Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Melissa Baudo, health, massage, Medicine, Exercise physiology, Melissa Baudo Marchetti, Physical exercise, Manual therapy, Flexibility, Fade, Exercise equipment, Myofascial release, Foam roller, Fascia training, Iliotibial tract|

The best kept secret to maximizing your sports performance and keeping you active is simple: “Recover better”. The use of a simple piece of foam for foam rolling can help you optimize recovery, which is ideal for athletes and active people of all levels and ages. Why foam rolling? Hard exercise may lead to increased tension/stiffness in your muscles and joints, which can alter joint motion and lead to poor movement patterns, a faster rate of fatigue, and injury. Self-massage [...]

Nutrition for Tennis Athletes

Nutrition for Tennis Athletes

OneTherapy2020-04-07T12:06:19-04:00November 7th, 2014|Categories: Injury Prevention Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Nutrition Articles, Tennis Medicine Articles|Tags: Melissa Baudo, Tennis, Nutrition, health, food, Food and drink, Dietary supplements, Melissa Baudo Marchetti, Food science, Self care, Food pyramid, Carbohydrate counting, Articles|

By: Melissa Baudo Marchetti, PT, DPT, SCS, MTC GET READY! ARRIVE TO THE TOURNAMENT HYDRATED AND FUELED. PRE-COMEPETITION MEAL 2-4 HOURS PRIOR TO PLAY; SNACK 30 - 60 MIN BEFORE OR BETWEEN MATCHES PRE-MATCH MEAL: Carbohydrate Rich with Small Amounts of Low Fat Protein Grains: Rice, Pasta & Bread Fruit & Vegetables Protein: Eggs, Fish & Chicken Fluids: Water, Fruit Juice & Sports Drink PRE-MATCH SNACK: Sports Snacks Sandwich Or Sports Bar Fluids: Water, Fruit Juice & Sports Drink ON-COURT FUEL [...]