Many people think that the main goal of resistance training is to build muscle and therefore think that as you age there is a decreased need to perform resistance training. The truth, however, is quite to the contrary. Resistance training, whether through lifting weights, performing body weight exercises, or using resistance tubes or bands...
Twenty years of Accelerate PT’s Newsletter, PHYSIOTHERAPY
Accelerate Physical Therapy celebrates twenty years of our newsletter, PHYSIOTHERAPY. Here is the Fall Newsletter: PHYSIOTHERAPY, Vol. 21, No. 3 In this issue we talk about Prevention of Volleyball and Swimming Injuries.
Ball Stretching for Back and Radiating Leg Pain
Click on the links and watch the exercise videos, which provides the same decompressive effects provided by expensive mechanical traction devices in physical therapy, and recently, chiropractic’ offices. Position yourself on a ball that is appropriate for your body type and size. Stretch over the top of the ball far enough to feel your lumbar...
Early Knee Exercise
Knee pain is a function of weakness, and vice versa. Break the cycle by learning to command important patella stabilizing muscles. Begin with the technique demonstrated on the following video links . These daily exercises offer more than you might think. Prone Knee Extension When you can bear weight (check if you are on an...
Preventing Swimming Injuries
Most people don’t think of swimming as a very injury prone sport. Because of the low impact nature of swimming it is true that swimmers usually do not undergo as many traumatic injuries as athletes in most other sports. The repetitive nature of swimming does, however, place swimmers at an increased risk of...
Preventing Volleyball Injuries
Volleyball is a complex sport comprised of many different motions that have the potential to cause either traumatic or overuse injury to many different joints in the body. The shoulder, knee, and back are common places to get injuries while playing volleyball. Imbalances in strength and flexibility are at the center of many overuse...