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7 Tips For Relieving Knee Pain
Are you one of the millions of Americans suffering from aching or painful knees? You are not alone. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) 1 in 2 people may develop...
5 Simple Ways to Beat Knee Pain While Running
We all know that running is great exercise for our bodies, but often people stop due to knee or lower leg pain. This can happen for a variety of reasons, but usually ones that we are not aware of....
3 Easy Steps to Healthy Knees
For many people, knee pain can be a way of life, limiting their ability to climb stairs, squat down to get something off the floor, enjoy long walks, shopping and a host of other daily activities....
What You Should Know About Plantar Fasciitis
Have you ever woken up and stepped out of bed only to wish you hadn’t? It’s not just the impending dread of a Monday morning at work for some of us. Everyday, millions of people begin the day in...
How Physical Therapy Can Help Your Achilles Tendonitis
What is Achilles Tendonitis? The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the human body. This tendon joins the calf muscles to the heel bone and travels down the back of the lower leg. If it’s put...
5 Reasons Why You Need to Start Stretching
If there’s one thing that you can count on a Rock Run Physical Therapy physical therapist introducing into every session, it’s stretching. Yes, building strength and endurance is important. But...
Living with Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease
Are you trying to live with the pain of lumbar degenerative disc disease? As the aging process advances, the discs in most people’s spines undergo a degeneration process that will cause a varied...
Achilles Tendonitis: Top 5 Facts to Know From Symptoms to Prevention
If you’ve ever had Achilles Tendonitis, then you know how painful it is in the heel of your foot. An inflammatory injury, it’s due to overuse and abnormal stress on your tendon. As maybe a dancer,...
Study: Physical Therapy as Effective for Spinal Stenosis as Surgery
A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that followed 169 participants showed that physical therapy was just as effective for people suffering from spinal stenosis as surgery (1)....
How to Avoid Back Surgery
According to the Washington Post, spinal fusion surgeries increased from 56,000 in 1994 to 465,000 in 2011. That is an 8 times increase in the rate of back surgery in 7 years! In Europe and other...