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During a physical therapy examination, your therapist will perform tests to rule in or rule out causes of your pain, no matter what body part is bothering you.  There are dozens of low back pain … [Read more...] about Self Tests for Low Back Pain

A word on stretches… A stretch is designed to lengthen muscle tissue to allow for a greater range of motion.  In order to do this, the holds for a stretch need to be a minimum of 2 minutes. Holding … [Read more...] about Top 3 Stretches for Low Back Pain

There are hundreds of exercises we could have put in this section.  Depending on what is causing your low back pain, some of these exercises might help and some might not.  It is important to realize … [Read more...] about Top 3 Exercises for Low Back Pain

Low back pain is caused by one or a combination of these three main causes… Disc injury This can be a disc herniation, rupture, bulge, or simple irritation.  All of these diagnoses cause … [Read more...] about Top 3 Causes of Low Back Pain

With the cost of workers’ compensation claims continuously on the rise, employers have an important decision to make: where do I send my employees when an injury occurs? In this blog, we will compare … [Read more...] about Benefits of Direct to Specialist Care for Workers’ Comp Claims

Occupational injury rates and workers’ comp claim frequency continue to decline. Is your total spend for musculoskeletal treatment following suit? In this article, Medrisk explores some of the … [Read more...] about Workers’ Comp Costs: Why Physical Therapy a Better Option

Before we talk about the pelvic floor, we have to back up!   Lots of fitness and health care practitioners talk about improving “core strength”. But what is “Core Strength”? Do you have it?   And, … [Read more...] about Bladder & Babies & What’s a Pelvic Floor…?!?!

Written by Jim Kessler - Coach at Liven Up Fitness Do you occasionally experience knee pain after a busy day of physical activity? Sometimes you can experience pain or discomfort in normal … [Read more...] about Addressing Pain in the Healthy Knee

Stress injuries are often thought of as injuries that occur at desk jobs or from repetitive movements in the arms and back. Employees may suffer from chronic back pain or carpal tunnel syndrome and … [Read more...] about Challenges of Repetitive Knee Injuries