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Has Your Baby Been Diagnosed With Torticollis? What You Need to Know
Being a parent comes with all sorts of surprises—some exciting, some daunting, and some just plain scary. Along with your supportive team of family members, friends, doctors, clergy members and others, pediatric physical therapists are here to help you navigate some of parenting’s crazy curve balls.
One condition we treat a lot of infants for in our clinics is called torticollis,[…]
Calling All Cyclists: Everything You Need to Know About Wrist & Hand Injuries on the Bike
With our climate and variety of road routes and trails, Arizona is a great place to be if you’re into cycling or mountain biking. Here at Spooner Physical Therapy, we see quite a few cyclists and mountain bikers and love to help them get stronger and recover from all kinds of bicycle injuries.
Some of the common causes for complaints we[…]
Yoga for New Moms: A Healing Approach to Movement After Baby
You already know that having a baby creates lasting change—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Yet, it can still feel tricky and daunting to settle into your “new normal” as a new mom.
That new normal includes changes in the way your body moves and feels, and it may even include pain at this point in your journey. That’s one reason the American[…]
Injured on the Job? How Your Physical or Hand Therapist Can Help You Return to Work
It can happen in a heartbeat: One moment you’re doing a typical task at work, and the next, you’ve become injured, unable to continue to work and possibly needing surgery or other medical treatment. It’s a journey of repair, recovery and rebuilding that can take weeks or even months, and that can at times feel discouraging and even defeating.
If[…]
Life After Amputation: Get Moving Again with Physical Therapy
Regaining control after an amputation
“After someone experiences an amputation, they often don’t understand that their mobility or functional goals can be achieved. It seems so far off. But it can be achieved — with hard work. And that’s where we come in. We want to help them be as active as they desire.”
How Physical Therapy Helps Parkinson’s Patients
Every patient looks a little different, especially when it comes to neurological challenges presented by conditions like Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, we strive to take an individualized, whole-body approach to every patient. So, when individuals with Parkinson’s come to us to help them with issues such as an abnormal gait, or perhaps rigid posture, we[…]
Avoiding Youth Basketball Injuries – A Note to Youth Athletes from a Physical Therapist
Youth sports are definitely fun, and they can also be demanding on a young athlete’s body. Basketball is a great example of this. A high performing basketball player must have strength, speed, agility, verticality, endurance, quick reactionary time and excellent eye-hand coordination. Athletes generally spend a majority of their practice (both off season and in season) working on these aspects[…]
A Mom’s Care in the Fourth Trimester
The three months following the delivery of your newborn – known as the “Fourth Trimester” – is without a doubt one of the most challenging times for new mothers. You’re recovering from delivery, possibly a c-section. You’re caring for a newborn and possibly struggling to breastfeed and understand their new body. And, you’re adapting to an entirely new “normal”. This[…]
ACL Injuries and Sports: Training and Rehab
The Spring sport season has arrived, and with a surge in activity often comes a surge in injuries. ACL injuries are one of the most common and serious injuries to occur on any sporting field or court. Unfortunately, there’s no way to completely prevent an ACL injury; we wish that were the case! But there are definitely ways athletes can[…]
Tennis Elbow: What It Is and What to Expect
Its name doesn’t correlate well to the degree of pain it can cause our patients. No, Tennis Elbow isn’t just a casual ache or soreness nor does it only occur in tennis players; for many patients, it’s a total show-stopper.
Tennis Elbow often begins with a seemingly innocent dully ache. Many[…]
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