Stretches to Ease Muscle Aches When Breastfeeding

Stretches to Ease Muscle Aches When Breastfeeding

Beyond providing nutrition to your baby, breastfeeding is a unique experience that improves bonding between mom and baby. Breastfeeding can take a toll on the body and a stress to muscles. This is due to the positions that mothers often find themselves in. Hunched forwards with rounded shoulders and carrying the weight of the baby…

The Connection Between IBD and the Lungs

The Connection Between IBD and the Lungs

It’s long been known that those that experience IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) also report extra-intestinal dysfunction. IBD has been known to cause symptoms that impact lliver, joint, skin and eye function. Recent research is showing that a bi-directional relationship exists between IBD and obstructive lung disease. What is IBD? Inflammatory Bowel Disease is a group…

Relief Through Movement

Relief Through Movement

Physical Therapy for Chronic Pain Chronic pain can be a debilitating condition, limiting your mobility and impacting your daily life. The CDC estimates that around 50 million Americans experience chronic pain, and 17 million have substantial reductions in activity because of pain. Beyond limiting activity or your ability to work, chronic pain has been linked…

Should you add Kinesiotape into your treatment regime?

Should you add Kinesiotape into your treatment regime?

Kinesiotape is so much more than a sticky bandage. Research continues to show what physical therapists have been seeing clinically. Kinesiotape improves healing time. At Body Harmony Physical Therapy, we use kinesiotape as an adjunct to treatment, to help reduce pain and improve healing time for our patients for many conditions including myofascial pain syndrome,…