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78 Million Baby Boomers.

125 Million people going on Vacation this summer.

4 PTWs to help you get from here to there, in less pain, with more mobility, enjoying life the way it ought to be for you.

Call today for relief tomorrow. You deserve a painfree vacation!

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Montgomeryville Physical Therapy Video

Videos for our website are done, next month, you will see home exercise instruction of many of our commonly issued home exercises.

Lansdale Physical Therapy - Live to Learn

An old saying goes "If you live to learn, you learn to live"

Live to learn by your mistakes, make change, alter your route, then you learn to live!

Like this guys physical performance, do you have joint pain when you run?

Try: Run with new sneakers. Still no change.
Try: Run on softer surface, or the other side of the road? Still has joint pain after running.
Try: Run with less intensity, less speed, shorten your stride. Still has joint pain after running.
Try: Run on a treadmill. Still has joint pain.
Try: Running in water. No joint pain.

This fellow did 2 weeks of running in the water, each day followed by land exercises for strengthening the quads, hams, and hip musculature.

Then 2 weeks of EFX at 120 to 150 strides per minute, levels 8 through 12, with land exercises as above.

Then 2 weeks of running at 4 mph to 6 mph on the treadmill, land exercises.

Then returning to road running, 60% of previous performance, building up 5% each week.

No joint pain.

This fella lived to learn, and as a result, learned to live life to its fullest! Back running.

Robert Babb, MBA, PT, Physical Therapy

Doom the Rheum!

Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic, sometimes disabling disease that includes joint pain, muscle shortening, swelling in the joints, and a host of other symptoms that can limit your activity.

The American Physical Therapy Association research (June 2011, JAPTA) reports that individuals who attend a Physical Training program that includes cardiovascular exercise, education, and self-management strategies will help! Improvement in the cardiovascular conditioning can lead to better quality of life and in many...promote participation of recreational and sport activities.

So, if your off your tennis game cause of those achy joints, give a Physical Therapy professional a call to see how they can help you get back on your game!

Wanna Lose Weight for arthritis? Supersize your expectations!!

The American Physical Therapy Association reports study this month (JAPT, Jun, 2011) that researched Physical Activity with individuals with Arthritis.

http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/91/6/843.full.pdf+html

Conclusions are as expected, including:

* Diet alone can help lose weight

* Exercise alone can help lose weight

* Combo diet & exercise PRODUCED THE MOST BENEFICIAL results in managing joint pain.

So, supersize your personal ideals of weight loss with taking a deep look at the food on your plate and the exercise intensity, duration, and frequency.

When you decide to lose weight, mentally order your own personal combo of expectations!

The Physical Therapy & Wellness Institute has a 6 week wellness programs and medically based fitness programs directed and supervised by Physical Therapist. Joint conservative programs will get you back to your normal life by vacation this summer!

Ouch! Joint pain adversity creates Opportunity.

As a businessman and Physical Therapist, I often ask folks to look at joint pain as an opportunity. Here is what I mean.



In business, there is always opportunity in the face of adversity. As an example, GE suffered from a slump in sales during the early 70s until the roll out of the microwave oven. Chrysler Auto almost went belly up in the 80s, bailed out by the government and energized with new leadership, became the textbook example of how to seek opportunity in the face of adversity.

In Physical Therapy, we challenge assumptions. To say its joint pain "because I'm just getting old" diminishes your opportunity to maintain an active, independent, and pain-free lifestyle.

Guess What? Your joint pain is your bodies communication system screaming "Opportunity". Your brain teaches right from wrong, informing your brain of movements to avoid. Perfect time to do a self S.W.O.T of your joint!

For example, a man recently in our clinic with plantar fasciitis:


Strength: His other foot! All other joints in good shape right now!
Weakness: He can't walk without immobilization of my left foot.
Opportunity: Insurance covers a doctor appointment and Physical Therapy
Threat: If I ignored, vulnerable knee, surgically repaired years ago, will act up (again!).


He went to the doctor last night, took much anticipated x-ray, learned more about his specific foot (also with heel spur, tendonitis, and mile OA), and starting active PT us.


Next week, he returns to running! He took advantage of the opportunity to see a specialist after assuming for the last 6 months he could work through it. Self S.W.O.T created his opportunity, and now he is on the road to recovery.


Robert Babb, PT, MBA