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Learn about common pain-causing health conditions, their progression paths, their causes, and effective treatment options. Our blog offers valuable information to people who experience pain and anyone who wishes to learn more about long-lasting, safe, and noninvasive treatments.
These articles also explain how Superior Physical Therapy addresses these common health problems through an innovative approach called the Superior Method. This approach aims to accurately identify the underlying cause of pain in order to develop a more tailored and collaborative treatment plan.
I hear a lot of patients ask, "Will I ever get off these bladder meds?" While they can be beneficial for incontinence, Bladder Medications should be used as a temporary solution while at the same time improving pelvic floor...
If you've been starting to feel something bulging out of your vagina, you may be experiencing organ prolapse. It can feel like you're sitting on a tennis ball. Or you may be in the shower washing and feel something...
Panty Liners, Pads, and Undergarments are not Long-Term Solutions If you struggle with urinary incontinence and rely on panty liners, pads, or special undergarments to manage your symptoms, it's important to know that these products are only temporary...
Surprising Link Between Hydration and Bladder Health: How Increasing Your Water Intake Can Improve Incontinence Issues If you suffer from bladder control issues such as leaks, urgency or frequency, you may have considered cutting back on your daily...
I suspect you or a woman you care about is frustrated, embarrassed, and hurting because of urinary frequency, incontinence, pelvic pain, or pain that makes sex uncomfortable. You may feel you are missing out on life, but you're not...
Research indicates that as many as 75% of nursing home residents are incontinent. The main reason for this is inactivity, which turns off the Pelvic Floor, the muscles inside our pelvis that support and activate our bladder, rectum and...
Many women are thinking their incontinence or pelvic pain will get better on its own, and they do nothing. But for most women, the symptoms will only get worse over time. For new moms, this is especially true. ...
Kegels. We’ve all been told to do them, by our OB-GYN, parenting magazines, talk shows, friends, or midwives. While they can have some benefit and there is a time and a place for them, they are hardly the end-all,...
The Key to Healing Incontinence Your pelvic floor is the key to healing incontinence. Floors create the bottoms of our homes, so it makes sense to use the term floor when describing the muscles that make up the bottom of...
As a physical therapist in Traverse City, MI, I work with a lot of people who have sciatic nerve pain or irritation and have been told they have piriformis syndrome, but they have no idea what that is. So today,...
For most people understanding back pain is not an easy task. There's no magic pill that heals back pain. There's no magic device that heals back pain. The thing that heals back pain is the body. The body heals itself...
A lot of people ask us, "What is Stenosis?" There's a lot of misinformation that nothing can be done, short of surgery, to relieve stenosis, which is also called arthritis or degenerative disc disease. In reality, that is just not...
I hear a lot of patients ask, "Will I ever get off these bladder meds?" While they can be beneficial for incontinence, Bladder Medications should be used as a temporary solution while at the same time improving pelvic floor...
If you've been starting to feel something bulging out of your vagina, you may be experiencing organ prolapse. It can feel like you're sitting on a tennis ball. Or you may be in the shower washing and feel something...
Panty Liners, Pads, and Undergarments are not Long-Term Solutions If you struggle with urinary incontinence and rely on panty liners, pads, or special undergarments to manage your symptoms, it's important to know that these products are only temporary...
Surprising Link Between Hydration and Bladder Health: How Increasing Your Water Intake Can Improve Incontinence Issues If you suffer from bladder control issues such as leaks, urgency or frequency, you may have considered cutting back on your daily...
I suspect you or a woman you care about is frustrated, embarrassed, and hurting because of urinary frequency, incontinence, pelvic pain, or pain that makes sex uncomfortable. You may feel you are missing out on life, but you're not...
Research indicates that as many as 75% of nursing home residents are incontinent. The main reason for this is inactivity, which turns off the Pelvic Floor, the muscles inside our pelvis that support and activate our bladder, rectum and...
Many women are thinking their incontinence or pelvic pain will get better on its own, and they do nothing. But for most women, the symptoms will only get worse over time. For new moms, this is especially true. ...
Kegels. We’ve all been told to do them, by our OB-GYN, parenting magazines, talk shows, friends, or midwives. While they can have some benefit and there is a time and a place for them, they are hardly the end-all,...
The Key to Healing Incontinence Your pelvic floor is the key to healing incontinence. Floors create the bottoms of our homes, so it makes sense to use the term floor when describing the muscles that make up the bottom of...
As a physical therapist in Traverse City, MI, I work with a lot of people who have sciatic nerve pain or irritation and have been told they have piriformis syndrome, but they have no idea what that is. So today,...
For most people understanding back pain is not an easy task. There's no magic pill that heals back pain. There's no magic device that heals back pain. The thing that heals back pain is the body. The body heals itself...
A lot of people ask us, "What is Stenosis?" There's a lot of misinformation that nothing can be done, short of surgery, to relieve stenosis, which is also called arthritis or degenerative disc disease. In reality, that is just not...
