Physical Therapy
Back on Your Feet: Sciatic Pain Relief
The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the human body, so it’s not surprising that when it flares up, it feels intense.
Read MoreThe Top 3 Ways to Spend Your Rest Day
Rest days give your muscles time to heal from the stress of physical activity while giving your mind an opportunity to reset.
Read MoreStretches for Runners: How to Warm Up & Cool Down
How you prime your body for a run and how you recover afterward influence your overall performance. PTA Mary Jean McKinnon explains dynamic and static stretches to enhance your next run.
Read MoreHow to Spice Up Your Running Routine
Whether you log 2 or 20 miles, changing up your running or jogging routine will keep your workouts effective, interesting and even fun.
Read MoreStretching Guide to Ease Tight Muscles
This downloadable stretching guide targets commonly tight muscles to help encourage good posture, enhance your range of motion, reduce the overuse of certain muscle groups, relieve discomfort and support quality rest.
Read MoreDive In: 11 Things to Know About Aquatic Therapy
One of the biggest splashes in physical therapy in recent years is the evolution of aquatic therapy.
Read More12 Ways to Strengthen Your Core
Your core muscles are muscles that you can’t ‘see’, as opposed to muscles that are visible in shape beneath your skin.
Read More5 Neck and Shoulder Stretches To help reduce soreness
Finding yourself grabbing your neck and shoulders after a long day at work? Try these neck and shoulder stretches physical therapist-approved stretches.
Read MoreHow does physical therapy treat plantar fascitis?
The pain from plantar fascitis is felt in the heel of the foot and can often feel like walking on a bruise. Physical Therapist Scott Beecher shares information about how therapy can reduce the pain and inflammation attributed to plantar fascitis.
Read MoreOrthoCarolina Physical Therapist Lands on ESPN Lacrosse Documentary
Caring for patients by day, Shaun Riney spends evenings and weekends as an assistant coach on a lacrosse team whose unlikely players made them the subject of an ESPN documentary.
Did You Know? 8 Physical Therapy Facts
You might know that physical therapy, also called “PT”, can help you recover from injury. But did you know that it can also help you manage specific conditions, restore function, encourage movement, and reduce or eliminate the need for medications and surgeries?
Read MoreWhat You Should Know About Physical Therapy
You may already know that physical therapy primarily helps manage pain, increases mobility and muscle function, and gets your body back to how it was before injury. Straight from our own physical therapists, here is what you should know about physical therapy.
Read MorePhysicals for College Athletes: A Q&A with Physical Therapist Matt Erbe
OrthoCarolina, helping to keep your favorite team on the field.
Read More4 Tips to Prevent Injury When You Work Out
Whether you’re starting a routine from scratch or you’re a seasoned
athlete, a focus on injury prevention will keep you in the game
Treating Sore Muscles with Cold Therapy
Whether it’s a simple cold pack, ice bath or a higher tech application, athletes are always looking for the latest and greatest tool to aid recovery and minimize downtime between intense training sessions.
Read MoreStretches and Positions to Help Decrease Your Low Back Pain Before You See Your Medical Doctor or Physical Therapist
Back pain has been a hot topic in recent years and will affect many people at some point in their lives. These positions may help decrease your symptoms to a manageable level to assist with you getting back to the activities you love.
Read MoreBenefits of Heavy Resistance Training
Many people make the assumption that there are no benefits to lifting heavy weights. Some feel that lifting lighter weights with high reps will yield the same results. This is simply not true.
Read MoreImproving Balance to Prevent Injuries
How much time do you devote to balance? The truth is probably not enough. While a lot of us take the time to go to the gym and get in our strength training and cardio, we often neglect simple balance exercises.
Read MoreBasic Principles of Football Safety
With the constant barrage of info through television and social media, we are more aware than ever about injures that surround football. From concussions to ACL tears, it seems like there is always some drama and controversy surrounding how best to prevent and manage these issues. For those of us who have children playing sports, these issues are much more important than just making sure our fantasy football lineups are competitive each week.
Read MoreHear it from an Athletic Trainer: Why Warming Up is a Crucial Piece in Your Soccer Training Plan
If you could increase your soccer skill level efficiency, drastically reduce your chance of injury, and help your body feel better before and after soccer, would you want to know how?
Read MoreNo Timeouts: Minimizing Injury Risk in Young Soccer Players
Soccer is not only one of the fastest growing sports, but it’s also one of the most fast-paced. Like any contact sport there is always potential for injury, but during the juvenile and teenage years those chances are higher simply due to growth patterns and growing bodies.
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