Spine stability allows for movement initiation from the arms and legs. The purpose of this post is not to detail movement mechanics, but rather to outline the basics of how one’s alignment affects load and force transfer through the spine.
23 Jul
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What is Pain?
Is pain a good thing? Pain affects your entire being and exceeds far beyond the location that ‘hurts’. It is important to understand why you feel pain and what you can do to reduce pain.
10 Jun
Guide to Optimal Sitting Posture
The average American sits 10 hours per day. That’s too much. While it is my personal opinion that we should decrease our time spent sitting, attempting to avoid sitting altogether seems unreasonable. Instead, we need to focus on how we sit. I will outline strategies to optimize your sitting posture.
07 May
Health and Wellness: What Every Patient Should Know
Inherent to this goal is our desire to help you feel better, move better, and live better. This article provides information that we believe is foundational to the understanding of overall health and healing.
27 Apr
Fight Chronic Inflammation and Chronic Pain with Antioxidants!
Chronic inflammation will make joints feel stiff, nerves more sensitive, muscles more spastic, zap your energy, and generally make you feel lethargic. One helpful step you can take while trying to sort out the source of chronic inflammation is to increase your consumption of anti-inflammatory foods, which are typically high in antioxidants.
17 Apr
Impact of Community
Community is important to physical and mental health. IPA Physio owner Gregory Vescera describes his journey in joining and developing a new community in Atlanta, GA.
13 Apr
Why Posture DOES Matter
Recently, there has been an increase in the dialogue around posture. As a physical therapist who addresses posture and body mechanics with every client I work with, I want to share my viewpoint.
02 Apr
Ergonomics 101
Regardless of sitting or standing, we are primarily static when at work. This is unavoidable to a degree. However, we can mitigate the detrimental impact of being static by implementing some simple adjustments to create an optimal ergonomic workplace.
18 Mar
Evidence Based Dry Needling
The use of acupuncture needles in physical therapy, a relatively contemporary adjunct treatment, provides another modality to address pain and dysfunction. Treatments generally last 20 minutes and are preceded by joint and soft tissue mobilization/manipulation and movement reeducation.
29 Jan
Stiff Neck Solutions
Waking up with a “kink in your neck” is never the way to get the day off to a good start. I, myself, have woken up with this problem on more than one occasion. More often than not this can be a very preventable problem when adhering to proper sleep postures and positioning.
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