Superior Physical Therapy Blog

You had the knee thing in March. Or the shoulder. Or a surgery, or a hospital stay, or a run of appointments that added up faster than you expected. Whatever it was, you have already spent your way past the...

More walking will not rebuild hip strength after hip replacement. Research tracked an abductor deficit that starts before surgery and lingers for years.

New back pain after hip replacement is common enough that researchers measured it. One in five patients with no prior back pain had it within a year.

There is one question worth more than all the other questions to ask before hip replacement, and an orthopedic surgeon in Australia is the reason I ask it.

What a free movement assessment Traverse City patients get actually looks like, minute by minute, so the unknown stops being the reason you never call.

Hip and back pain together is not a coincidence. Half of patients heading for hip replacement already have back pain, and most of it clears after surgery.

Four hip self-test at home checks you can run this afternoon with a kitchen chair and a bed. What a poor score suggests, and what it does not prove.

Told you are bone on bone hip and stopped moving because of it? Two large studies found hip pain and hip x-rays agree far less often than anyone assumes.

A Norwegian trial followed 109 people for six years. Hip arthritis exercise pushed the median time to a hip replacement out by nearly two years.

Your surgery date is set. Prehab before hip replacement is the six weeks most people waste, and the research on strength and recovery says don't.

Roughly 40 percent of every walking cycle is spent balanced on one leg. If your single-leg stability isn't there after hip replacement, nothing feels safe — regardless of your range of motion.

Scar tissue forms in every hip replacement. Whether it restricts your recovery depends almost entirely on whether it's addressed during the 6-to-12 week remodeling window — and most PT programs miss it.