Modalities
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.
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Neuromuscular Reeducation
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.
Therapeutic Exercise
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.
Manual Physical Therapy
Involves restoring mobility to stiff joints and reducing muscle tension in order to return the patient to more natural movement without pain.
GOLF from a physical therapy perspective, PART 1
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 […]
What to expect when you are expecting a total knee replacement
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 […]
Hiking: Reduce Your Risk of Injury
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. […]
The Importance of Proper Gait
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 […]
Splish and Splash Your Way to a Pain Free Summer!
Hydrotherapy is a great way to cool off from the hot New Mexico sun and relieve pain, increase strength, balance, and coordination, while in a fun, no stress environment. Chronic pain, acute pain, weakness, balance restrictions, swelling? Hydrotherapy has something for everyone. Sometimes everyday activities like walking or simply moving your arm against the force […]