Healthy & Happy Feet
Avoid Injury, Proper Footwear Selection Running and walking are two of the most pure forms of exercise around. But choosing the wrong athletic shoe can have you end up lying on the couch nursing an injury. While most sporting good stores have knowledgeable sales people to guide you, you’ll be a few steps ahead of…
Do You Have Chronic Pain?
Chronic Pain Adam Skrove MPT, OCS Pain can be categorized as either chronic or acute. Chronic pain is pain which lasts longer then 3-6 months or pain extends longer than the expected time for healing. There are believed to be 116 million Americans living with chronic pain. Acute pain is very important and can be…
Pool Physical Therapy
Fun in the sun, Its summer time! It is summer time and pools are starting to get warm enough to take a dip. Did you know that you can do physical therapy exercises in the pool? The pool is a great place to continue doing your exercises that your therapist gave to you for home…
My Arthroscopic Surgeries and Recovery, by Bradon Griffith, ATC, PTA, CSCS
What to Expect After an Arthroscopic Shoulder or Knee Surgery Having experienced two knee and one shoulder arthroscopies, I could be considered an expert in the recovery process. Many patients ask me, what should I expect after surgery? What is the rehabilitation process going to be like? Well, I tell them this: pain is…
Time to see your PT?
Many of the injuries athletes sustain fall into two categories: training errors or overuse. Training errors commonly occur when athletes add mileage, intensity, or speed too quickly or do not allow for enough recovery time – either on a daily/weekly basis or within an overall periodization program. The pain that comes from training errors is…
Save The Date! April 18th
In honor of Earth Day this year–Intecore Physical Therapy is having a FREE Shred Fest event at their Foothill Ranch Location! Just in time for Tax Season, clean out those files and stacks of old checks, papers, etc and bring them to Intecore Physical Therapy! We will have a team here from 11am to 2pm…
News From the APTA
Physical Therapy As Effective As Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tears A recent study from Finland asserts that when it comes to treatment of nontraumatic rotator cuff tears, physical therapy alone produces results equal to those produced by arthroscopic surgery and open surgical repair. According to the study’s authors, follow-ups of 167 shoulders treated show that…