One of the many benefits of physical therapy is that it helps show you how physical activity is medicine! Our physical therapy team strongly believes that the human body was meant to move, and when it doesn’t, things start to break down. Unfortunately, the modern environment isn’t great for promoting regular physical activity. Many of
Oct8th 2021Since the easing of restrictions, we’ve been seeing lots of patients at Houghton Physical Therapy with extreme back pain caused by sciatica, with a pain shooting down the back of their legs. Do you get a shooting pain down the back of your leg? This pain could be sciatica. Our Clinical Manager, Alex, said: I
May20th 2021Have you been living with constant chronic pain? If so, the pain might have become unbearable. Pain and inflammation are two health issues that affect much of the population in America. According to the National Institutes of Health, one in four Americans suffer from pain lasting longer than 24 hours. Thankfully, there are ways for
May10th 2021It’s no secret that the older we get, the more our bodies experience random aches and pains. A long, tough day at work, an evening spent rough-housing outside with the kids, an unexpected injury — any one of these could cause random pains that never seem to leave you alone! As we age, our bodies
