08.12.2011 News To Your Health: Proper posture can relieve neck pain One of the tests that physical therapists routinely use to evaluate patients with neck pain is a postural analysis. It’s performed by using a visual “plumb line,” a straight...
06.17.2011 News Health Column: Conversation improves health Recent experiences have started me thinking about the importance of communal activities in enhancing the quality of our lives. Whether this activity takes place in a physical therapy setting...
04.12.2011 News Health Column: Running benefits, but no gain from pain It’s hard to reproduce the joy that one feels when running. As the late Dr. George Sheehan, a well-renowned cardiologist and contributor to Runner’s World, said many years ago,...
01.17.2011 News Health Column: It’s not your ‘bad’ knee After knee injury or knee surgery many of us have been instructed to go up with the good leg and down with the bad leg when negotiating stairs with...
07.29.2010 News Take a deep breath and let go of stress Recently I witnessed a confrontation between a group of cyclists and a motorist. The motorist was waiting patiently at a light on Route 25 with her blinker on, signaling...
04.29.2010 News Oh, my aching feet By Denise Plastiras When your feet hurt your whole body hurts. My mom said this many times when I was in my 30s and she was in her 50s....
