Health Blog

Pain Management: Why You Hurt

August 3rd, 2014

Causes of Pain One of the principle reasons people seek out physical therapists is for pain management.  Pain causes limitations in function and can restrict your ability to tolerate normal daily activities.  During physical therapy at SSOR, education is paramount to our treatment approach.  One of the things we share with patients on a regular

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Jeans, a Dryer, a House, and Low Back Pain

July 30th, 2014

Low Back Pain Stabilization Exercise Building off a recent post on using analogies in physical therapy, we have another one we like to use to put people’s diagnosis and our treatment into perspective.  We see lots of people with back pain for physical therapy here at SSOR and one of the analogies we talk about

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Seven Bad Exercises You May Be Doing

July 29th, 2014

Seven Bad Exercise Ideas Boy oh boy, physical therapists are truly an opportunistic bunch because there’s lots of bad form and bad exercises going on out there.  Well-intentioned people unknowingly are using machines and doing exercises that are not good for the body.  The physical therapists at SSOR are very knowledgeable about the exercises that

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