Correct Ergonomics for Injury Prevention

Correct Ergonomics for Injury Prevention

Not only can utilizing ergonomics keep you safe as an individual, but it can provide tremendous financial benefits to companies. According to its 2021 Workplace Safety Index, Liberty Mutual estimated that “U.S. businesses spend more than one billion dollars a week on...
The Benefits Of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy

The Benefits Of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy

What is BFRT? BFRT is a training method to increase muscle strength and muscle hypertrophy after injury or surgery while avoiding the stress of heavy resistance training. BFRT uses pressure cuffs to partially restrict blood flow to the part of the extremity below the...
What is Cupping?

What is Cupping?

Have you ever heard of cupping? Wondered what those mysterious ‘bruises’ are on athletes like Michael Phelps? Well, here is a little more information and background on this therapeutic technique. Cupping by definition is “the application of suction or vacuum to the...
Physical Therapy and the Treatment of Low Back Pain

Physical Therapy and the Treatment of Low Back Pain

If you have low back pain, you are not alone. At any given time, about 25% of people in the United States report having low back pain within the past three months. In most cases, low back pain is mild and disappears on its own. However, for some people, back pain can...
What is Sciatica?

What is Sciatica?

Sciatica is a very common diagnosis given to someone suffering from low back pain with symptoms usually traveling down one leg. Sciatica is defined as the irritation, inflammation, pinching, or compression of the sciatic nerve, which is a large nerve that originates...