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…

Chronic Vulvar Pain

Chronic Vulvar Pain

As May comes to a close we finish up pelvic pain awareness month with vulvodynia. Vulvodynia is chronic pain in the vulvar region (see image below). Just under 10% of women have vulvodynia. It occurs equally across ethnicities and is very much under-diagnosed. A study carried out in Michigan with over 2500 women found that…

Futile Bridges

Futile Bridges

Everyone has experienced an injury of some nature whether it’s a simple paper cut or a surgical procedure. Overall the healing process runs the same course and as a result scar tissue or adhesions are created. What are adhesions? Adhesions are unnecessary tissue connections between two locations. Think of them like futile bridges within the…