This month, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released their latest recommendation for use of opioids, commonly known as prescription pain medications, based on an extensive review of research and current practice in the United States. The recommendation is a very powerful one that any prescribing medical doctor, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner in the […]
There is a new word that we are seeing more and more on a doctor’s prescriptions when patients come in for their first evaluation with us: prehabilitation. Basically, people are being advised to begin physical therapy before their impending surgeries in an effort to make sure that the patient is as prepared as possible before […]
There is good news out of the United Kingdom for all of those walkers and fitness enthusiasts out there! A recent 10-year study that looked at 324 healthy female twins from the UK found a positive link between higher fitness, specifically of the legs, and a decreased rate of aging in the brain.1 The researchers […]
Did you know that seeing a physical therapist first, before any other healthcare provider, to treat your low back pain can actually save you money over the course of a year?1,2 One of the professors from my Doctorate of Physical Therapy alma mater, Dr. Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA, has recently spearheaded a piece of […]
Walking is one of the easiest and most accessible fitness activities that you can do. For people who have joint pain, general weakness, or other issues, walking is also oftentimes one of the more tolerable fitness activities. Well, there is good news for all you walkers out there! A recent research group out of Ohio […]
If you are anything like me, you have a favorite pair of running shoes that you throw on before heading out the door to go on a run. Personally, I have a pair of shoes that I stick with year after year because I have found that they work best for my body and my […]
With recent efforts to curb childhood obesity, organized school sports have quickly become a popular way to encourage children to be more fit. Each year in the United States, over 38 million children participate in sports.1 Unfortunately, about one-third of these children will sustain an injury that is serious enough to sideline them from practice […]
As important as it is to get outside and exercise on a regular basis, this can prove challenging in the heat of the summer; especially if you are unable to get out in the early morning or late evenings when the temperatures are cooler. There has been a lot of buzz in recent years about […]
It has been a pleasure for all of us at Rakita Tomsic to work with our friend and colleague Laura Wenger for this past year. Everyone on our diverse team comes from different modality, education and training backgrounds, and Laura is no exception. It has been a busy year for her as she has completed […]
The public website for the American Physical Therapy Association, MoveForwardPT.com, recently published an article that is important for anybody with lumbar spinal stenosis to pay attention to.1 The article highlights a recently published randomized control trial (the gold standard of clinical trials) that compared function in patients two years after being randomized to either surgery […]
