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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.
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.
The winter of 2020/2021 I had a freak fall and separated my shoulder. The Florida surgeon and physical therapist looked at the MRI and told me that I had to have surgery. Since I could not move my dominant arm...
By the time I attended a low back pain workshop at Superior, I had been in excruciating pain in my right buttock and entire right leg for several months. I had tried heat, ice and stretches, but no improvement. I...
I came to SPT because the idea of drugs or injections in my hip to ease my pain did not appeal to me. Nor did I feel I would know how to rectify my pain on my own. When I...
After lifting tree branches into a trailer, I suffered severe pain in my lower back, right thigh and knee. Sometimes my knee gave out, almost causing a fall. My physician insisted I go to Superior PT. They saw me right...
I suffered from a chronic hip injury/ailment for the better part of 6 months. I had weakness when walking upstairs and had trouble sleeping. I tried a stretching only regimen, which did not correct the problem. I then turned to...
I was born with a partially fused left ankle joint. Because of this, my mobility is limited and prolonged time spent walking, running, hiking, biking causes pain. This condition has caused progressive issues in my knees and hips to the...
I have loved my experience with Superior Physical Therapy. The ladies I worked with (Sarah, Taylor, Rachel) were amazing. I came in on my own and chose Superior because I had heard good things about them. I was having a...
After spending years in pain and trying to “train through the pain”, I finally came to P.T. While initially skeptical and resigned to stop running, I have had wonderful results! I am now pain-free and ready to run! Thank you...
When I came in, I had pain in my back and left leg. I noticed an improvement after each therapy session. So by the time I was finished, my back pain and leg pain was gone. So I would like...
Sarah and Rachel, What a team! Each time I attended an appointment, if I had a concern or pain with stiffness they are so compassionate and attentive, I felt like they cared. My treatments gave me such relief, improved flexibility...
I have had an excellent experience working with Superior. They have helped me tackle my sudden vertigo symptoms after my jet ski incident. Kaylee, Sarah and Taylor have been extremely effective at mitigating my symptoms, and more importantly, they’ve been...
After 40 years, 8 surgeries, and a recent injury, I have finally met the team that could help me regain my strength, flexibility and balance. This gives me new confidence to remain active so I can enjoy my favorite activities....
