Filed under: Courses, Lower Extremity, Motion Stability News, Movement Dysfunction, Upper Extremity | Tags: Continuing Education, Courses, Janda, Movement Dysfunction
Available to all residents, fellows, physical therapists! Please see the link below for more information:
As the height of running season approaches, it is prudent to address the importance of the hip musculature in keeping a runner pain-free while maintaining the efficiency required for long distance events. Motion Stability has partnered with Phiddipides, a local running store, to discuss this topic with their runners.
A lack of hip muscle strength can cause a myriad of problems in any person, but is especially problematic for runners as the hip muscles not only provide the propulsion for a powerful stride, but also the pelvic stbility required to keep the lower legs moving efficiently. For a closer look at how weak hips can literally be a “pain in the butt” for runners, read the article posted on Motion Stability’s website: http://motionstability.com/mediacenter.php. The website has been redesigned to include a running section and will have more updates and interesting articles available to download in the coming months, so keep checking back in!
Filed under: Movement Dysfunction, Myofascial Trigger Points, Pain Sciences, Tissue Pathology
Thank you to Georgia Representatives Sharon Cooper and Edward Lindsey, the use of dry needling in clinical practice has been adopted into the Georgia Physical Therapy Practice act under bill HR 145. Dry needling is a technique to improve myofascial pain and dysfunction, which includes treatment of trigger points. With proper clinical reasoning and treatment methodology, trigger point dry needling can help significantly with improvements in pain, dysfunction, range of motion, and movement patterns. For more information please view our website: www.motionstability.com
For more information on the bill follow this link.
Filed under: Movement Dysfunction, Pain Sciences, Spine | Tags: Low Back Pain, Post-partum, Women's Health
Recently we have seen a growing number of women presenting to our clinic with low back pain and who incidentally have had a baby within the last couple of years. Unfortunately many of these women have been told 1 of 2 things by their medical practitioners: it is an unfortunate side-effect of being post-partum and that it should go away in due time or go try some physical therapy and see if it helps. The problem is that the women is caught between her ObGyn saying it is a post-partum issue and her orthopedist diagnosing her with non-specific back pain, but not attributing it to the fact that she has just had a baby. Oftentimes, the problem goes undiagnosed and women who are even 10yrs post-partum can have dysfunction and pain directly related to the pregnancy numerous years ago.
As physical therapist’s, we have the responsibility of linking these events together and explaining to the women how pregnancy alters the stability and mechanics of her back, abdominal, and pelvic regions. We have the unique ability to catch these women as they fall through the cracks of traditional medicine and significantly alter how the woman is able to go about her day caring for her newborn pain-free. A knowledgeable clinician will be able to create an individualized treatment program structured around the effects that a pregnancy and delivery can have on the woman.
At our clinic, the therapists are able to use ultrasound (similar to ones at the Ob’s office) to evaluate the muscle integrity of the abdomen and pelvic floor (areas most often affected by pregnancy.) It has become a useful tool to integrate into the treatment programs for these patients. The ultrasound allows the therapist and patient to visualize exactly how the muscles are being used and in what manner. Please check out this article for more information on the use of ultrasound imaging in the PT clinic: http://www.motionstability.com/assets/docs/articles/a_2010_09_ultrasound.
Filed under: Internal Systems, Pain Sciences | Tags: chronic pain, differential diagnosis, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, pain
Most all people have experienced some form of pain in their lifetime. Feelings of pain can present from skinning your knee on your first fall off of a bicycle to the tiniest of papercuts or rehabilitating a surgical procedure. Each person can feel and interpret pain in many different ways in the many different circumstances it may present. Generally, pain is thought of as a symptom or result of an incident, such as those mentioned above, or a disease, like the aches commonly felt with the flu. In these cases, most healthcare practitioners focus on treating the cause of the pain, knowing that eventually the pain should subside as your body heals.
However, in cases in which pain persists outside of its expected time frame of body healing, other ideas must be considered. Commonly in these instances, patients are sent from doctor to doctor in search of a diagnosis or cause of their unrelenting pain, often undergoing many different tests and treatments often only left with a vague diagnosis of “fibromyalgia” or “myofascial pain syndrome.” For these individuals, pain takes over many aspects of their life and become functionally limited or even disabled. Pain then becomes less of a symptom of a disease and, rather, becomes a primary disease in itself. Patients may even experience other non-pain-related symptoms as a result of the pain process, such as sweating, redness, sensitivity to touch, changes in hair or nail growth, changes in bathroom habits and feelings of depression. It is necessary at this stage to change the treatment approach to stop the pain cycle to best allow the patient to return to normal daily function. Understanding the many factors which may affect pain is imperative to best treat patients with such presentation, including nutrition, exercise, internal organ system function, and psychosocial situations.
The physical therapists at Motion Stability have collaborated with a network of physicians around the Atlanta area to establish a strong approach to the treatment of patients with chronic pain. Utilizing a biopsychosocial treatment model, it is our goal to spend time with patients who may have undergone failed treatments in the past to understand their unique individual situations and to outline the best possible plan of care. For more information patients or physicians may directly contact our therapists at Motion Stability at www.motionstability.com
- Beth Collier PT, DPT, OCS
*Reference: Cousins, Sidall. Persistent Pain as a Disease Entity: Implications for
Clinical Management. Anesth Analg 2004;99:510 –20.
We would like to congratulate Harris English for winning the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational. Still classified as an amateur golfer, Harris was able to take on some of the countries best golfers and win! Harris congratulations on finishing the University of Georgia’s program, we wish you all the best in your future and bright career!
Filed under: Motion Stability News
Check out the new Sharecare website! It is co-founded by Doctor Oz and Jeff Arnold (creator of WebMD). It is a social interactive / multi-disciplinary health care information website. Basically, you can use the site to get information about various health topics and learn from different disciplines in health/medicine. Brian was able to be the first Physical Therapist on the site. Take a look! Register and you can ask Brian questions through Sharecare.
http://www.sharecare.com/user/brian-yee-pt
Filed under: Golf
Congratulations Heath for winning the McGladrey Classic in Sea Island this year! If you know Heath, he is humble in spirit, and simply plays out of passion of playing. We have had the opportunity to get to know Heath over the past couple years, its been an honor to work with him! Take a look at his press interview after his win!
http://www.pgatour.com/2010/tournaments/r493/10/10/slocum-transcript/index.html
Filed under: Golf
Motion Stability, LLC Congratulations Matt Kuchar for a stellar year on the PGA Tour! We have had the opportunity to work with Matt over the past few years. It has been an honor to see him do so well! Take a look at this link from the PGA Tour website.
http://www.pgatour.com/2010/r/11/14/kuchar-awards/index.html
Filed under: Motion Stability News
We would like to welcome you to our new Motion Stability website! We re-designed in with the patient directly in mind – to provide useful information not only things like directions, health insurance, or frequently asked questions, but also clinical information that will hopefully be useful in the pain or injuries you are experiencing.
Included on the site is a Media Center with a growing resource of patient information, facebook link, and specialty services in recurrent pain, golf, nerve pain, tennis rehab, and sports injury prevention. Take a look:
www.motionstability.com
Let us know what you think!
Motion Stability team!
