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Modern Approach for Overcoming Chronic Pain: Cognitive Functional Therapy

Modern Approach for Overcoming Chronic Pain: Cognitive Functional Therapy

Unnati Topiwala2023-12-21T14:43:28-05:00March 7th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized, Physical Therapy Articles, Wellness Articles, Pain Management Articles|Tags: Pain management, Physical Therapy, chronic pain, pain, dry needling, back pain, neck pain, Medicine, Perception, Nociception, Human back, Suffering, Acute pain, Low back pain, Lance Cross, Sciatica, shoulder pain, The Creative Healing Shift, Knee pain, CFT, tissue damage, Pain psychology|

Do you have knee pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, sciatica, low back pain, or chronic neck pain that hasn’t improved fully with traditional orthopedic or physical therapy treatment? Is your ability to perform fitness activities, sports activities, or normal daily work activities limited by this pain? Are you ready to explore the modern approaches to dealing with persistent/debilitating pain? Are you a person that has an identified tear, bulge, or degeneration? Have you been told they aren’t a candidate for [...]

Bouncing “Back”

Bouncing “Back”

Unnati Topiwala2023-12-21T14:18:24-05:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Back injury, spine injuries, Pain management, Physical Therapy, Melissa Baudo, Injury Prevention, Tennis, health, active, athlete, pain, core, injuries, back pain, breathing, Musculoskeletal disorders, Human back, Soft tissue disorders, Spinal disc herniation, Low back pain, Anatomy, Sciatica, Musculoskeletal system, Branches of biology, Spinal cord disorders, Radicular pain, Lower Back Pain, Lumbar, Dynamic warm-up|

Tennis season is upon us in Atlanta albeit it will look a little different this year. If you are wanting to get back out on the court this Spring, now is the time to see your physical therapist for a tune-up so you are ready to play without risking injury. For those of you who have been working from home, on Zoom calls, sitting in a chair for the last year, you may feel tighter than usual and may already [...]

Postpartum 101 – Part 3

Postpartum 101 – Part 3

Melissa Baudo2020-04-07T12:16:42-04:00September 25th, 2019|Categories: Women's Health Articles, Pelvic Floor Articles|Tags: Prolapse, Physical Therapy, Women's Health, Pelvic Floor, Medicine, RTT, Clinical medicine, Low back pain, Urinary incontinence, Pelvic floor dysfunction, Gynaecology, Medical specialties, Laura Glazebrook, C-section, Stress incontinence, Vagina, Episiotomy, pelvc pt, scar mobilization, hip pain|

Welcome back! We’ve spent the last two blogs introducing the mystical Postpartum period, specifically Diastasis Recti and Stress Urinary Incontinence. Today, we discuss two more issues that you maybe haven’t heard so much about, but that can occur and could cause pain and dysfunction down the line. Number 3 → Dysfunctional Scar Following a c-section, there will be a scar across the suprapubic region. You can also tear or have an episiotomy during a vaginal birth, which would leave a [...]

Low Back Pain

Low Back Pain

Melissa Baudo2023-12-19T16:22:42-05:00February 11th, 2019|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: health, Physical Therapy, chronic pain, pain, back pain, Medicine, Pain management, Nociception, Human back, Acute pain, Low back pain, Rehabilitation medicine, Medical specialties, Middle back pain, Aquatic therapy|

Are you one of the millions of Americans suffering from debilitating low back pain? From athletes to office workers, this pesky ailment affects those of all ages, ethnicities, and gender. Low Back pain is common and often debilitating. Approximately 80% of individuals will experience low back pain sometime during their lifetime, while 56% of all adults report having back pain over the past 12 months. More than one-third of adults say low back pain affects their ability to engage in [...]

The Nocebo Effect: How Your MRI Report Can Hurt You

The Nocebo Effect: How Your MRI Report Can Hurt You

Melissa Baudo2023-12-20T06:54:07-05:00July 26th, 2018|Categories: Pain Management Articles, Physical Therapy Articles|Tags: Human back, Physical Therapy, health, chronic pain, pain, dry needling, back pain, MRI, Medicine, RTT, Perception, Pain management, Nociception, Soft tissue disorders, Spinal disc herniation, Myofascial trigger point, Rotator cuff tear, Clinical medicine, Low back pain, Lance Cross, Pseudoscience, Sciatica|

MRI finding L5 disc herniation Ever been diagnosed with a tendon tear, disc bulge or degenerative disease of a joint based on an MRI report? Has a physician determined that this was causing your pain? If so, while the physician was correct as far as finding a variance in your body’s tissue, they may be incorrect in determining that this finding was the primary cause of the pain. Recent research indicates that many people without pain actually have [...]

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Alex Wilkins2023-12-21T14:44:02-05:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapists News, Trigger Point Dry Needling Articles, Women's Health Articles, Pilates Articles, Dry Needling Articles, Wellness Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Melissa Baudo, health, pain, massage, baby, body, dry needling, back pain, Medicine, Nociception, Soft tissue disorders, Myofascial trigger point, Clinical medicine, Manual therapy, Myofascial pain syndrome, Diastasis recti, Low back pain, Pseudoscience, Medical specialties|

By Melissa Baudo Marchetti Calling all moms! Have you recently had a baby, or still struggling with post baby pain and weakness? Pregnancy places high demand on the musculoskeletal system and can be very traumatic for some women leaving them with myofascial pain, internal pelvic pain, nerve pain, diastasis recti (a gapping in the abdominal muscles), weakness in the core from a C-section, neck and shoulder pain from holding your newborn baby, and much more. In December, after a five-year [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]