Jeans, a Dryer, a House, and Low Back Pain

July 30th, 2014

Low Back Pain Stabilization Exercise Building off a recent post on using analogies in physical therapy, we have another one we like to use to put people’s diagnosis and our treatment into perspective.  We see lots of people with back pain for physical therapy here at SSOR and one of the analogies we talk about

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Seven Bad Exercises You May Be Doing

July 29th, 2014

Seven Bad Exercise Ideas Boy oh boy, physical therapists are truly an opportunistic bunch because there’s lots of bad form and bad exercises going on out there.  Well-intentioned people unknowingly are using machines and doing exercises that are not good for the body.  The physical therapists at SSOR are very knowledgeable about the exercises that

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Six Questions You Should Ask Your Physical Therapist

July 26th, 2014

Important Questions for Patients to Ask Their PT Physical therapists have the opportunity to impart meaningful changes in the lives of the people that we interact with everyday.  It takes time to earn trust of our patients, but our patients can help us do our job better by asking specific questions during the course of

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