Austin's injury recovery Blog
Why Don’t You Take Insurance?
I will try to explain why we don't accept insurance for our physical therapy services as briefly as possible. But this is something I feel very passionate about, so I really don't want to oversimplify. If pain is keeping you from enjoying the active life you deserve,...
What is Manual Therapy?
The newer patients in our Austin-area physical therapy clinic often tell us the term Manual Therapy is somewhat confusing. For that reason, we wanted to explain what the term means and how it's being used in various professions. The official definition of Manual...
Injury Prevention for Walking/Running Programs – presentation for RunTex ATX TRAINING groups
Last Saturday, I had the privilege of working with the RunTex ATX TRAINING group. I wanted to help these runners with information about injury prevention that can help them as they work toward their inspiring goals. More specifically, I taught about hip muscle...
I Have a Crick in My Neck … Can you Help with that?
Patients who come into our Austin-area physical therapy clinic with a stiff neck sometimes ask if we can fix their "crick in the neck." The short answer to that question is, “Yes, of course.” But here's the what and how… If you are dealing with neck stiffness or pain...
How To Identify the Potential for Injury Before it Happens
So are you planning on “getting back in shape” this year? Every January, gyms, running trails, and “boot camps” see a flood of new people who don’t exercise regularly. And some portion of those people end up in our Austin-area physiotherapy practice with a painful...
Is Sitting Lethal? How To Keep A Desk Job From Literally Shaving Years Off Your Life
Excluding the young athletes we treat in our Austin-area physical therapy practice, the vast majority of our patients have a job that puts them in a chair at a desk job most of each day. You probably don’t need a doctor to tell you that it's bad to sit around all day,...
Fascial Distortion as Sources of Symptoms throughout the Body
Why does fascial distortion necessarily cause pain? For example, your fascia could have a twist, tear, separation, adhesion, or some other sort of distortion from normal. This can definitely cause you to experience pain, but only if the signals from specific types of...
What is Fascia?
I believe Fascia has so much more to do with musculoskeletal pain and injuries than most give it credit for. As I write about a variety of the injuries and conditions we treat in our Austin-based physical therapy clinic, a common factor in these discussions will be...
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