This treatment is implemented after a thorough evaluation to assess source of balance issues or vertigo. Vestibular treatment is treated for inner ear conditions that affect your balance and may cause vertigo. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is caused by inner ear dysfunction. Balance issues can be stemming from poor body awareness (kinesthesia) and poor joint […]
This includes heat, cold, Ultra sound, functional dry needling, and electrical stimulation. These are all used for thermal effect, reduction of inflammation, pain control, muscle activation, and to facilitate soft tissue healing.
Neuromuscular reeducation represents a series of therapeutic techniques to restore normal function of nerves and muscles, to include movement, balance, coordination, decreased kinesthetic sense, and impaired proprioception.
Exercise specific to the patient’s diagnosis. This includes range of motion exercises, strengthening exercise, neuromuscular reeducation, and stretching. In the clinic, we use multiple exercise machines to facilitate the aforementioned types of TE. A home exercise program is implemented to compliment what is done in the clinic.
Involves restoring mobility to stiff joints and reducing muscle tension in order to return the patient to more natural movement without pain.
I am Dr. Mark Vigil, and I am an avid golfer. This is the first of a series of articles that will go through the numerous benefits of playing the great sport of golf. In this article, I will briefly review how golf can improve your strength, balance, endurance, mentality, and cognition. Although I am […]
As a physical therapist assistant in my eighth year working in an orthopedic PT setting, I have worked with many postoperative total knee replacement patients. I have always enjoyed working with total knee replacement patients. I have found that most patients have many of the same questions, concerns, and fears once they get to their […]
With the warmer weather and hopefully dying down winds, now is the time to dust off those hiking boots. There are many benefits to hiking such as building strength in your core and lower extremity muscles, improving balance and bone density, as well as lowering your risk of heart disease and improving blood pressure levels. […]
Walking properly can save a lot of extra stress on all your joints, especially ankles, knees and hips, but even into your back. How is this possible? Well, the whole body is one big chain. If one part of the chain is the “weak link” then the rest of the chain becomes unstable. If we […]
