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Proper Bicep Curl
Doing the bicep curls is one of the most empowering and practical ways to strengthen your muscle. All you need to have is a pair of dumbbells and you are good to go. Bicep curls target muscles in the arms that include brachioradialis, front deltoid, and especially...
Why is sleep important to your health?
Sleep is essential to our health that helps your body and mind recharge. On the contrary, while our physical body sleeps our brain is very active during sleep taking important functions. Healthy sleep helps our mind and body to fight disease, develop our immunity,...
Why is stretching important?
Stretching is very important. Why? It keeps the muscle flexible, strong, and healthy. We need the flexibility of the muscle to maintain the range of motion in the joints. Without stretching your muscles can become stiff and weak. It can also increase the risk of...
How to train in pain
Have you ever been in the middle of a workout and felt an ache or pain? It’s completely normal if it’s something small and goes away. It’s another story if it continues to bother you or increases in pain. Sometimes we just do too much (or too little) and pain pops...
Flexibility vs. Mobility
Often we interchange the meaning of Flexibility with Mobility in the fitness world. In actual fact, these two words have different concepts and they do not have the exact same meaning. It is essential to know the difference between Flexibility and Mobility to help...
You deserve better than your Insurance
We have been transitioning to a different physical therapy model over the last couple of years. It’s called the “patient care comes first model”. Now some would call this a cash-based physical therapy model, but we will talk about that later on in the newsletter....
Thoracic Spine
Thoracic Spine “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” -Socrates This week we are going to talk about the thoracic spine. Specifically rotation of the thoracic spine. On average, each thoracic vertebra...
Healing Process
Healing Process The most frequent question asked by patients who underwent treatment/surgery is “How long will it take to heal?” The simple answer is, it depends on the condition, the injuries, and the surgical procedure that was performed. We are here to help you,...
Stages of Tissue Repair
When our body goes through soft tissue injuries such as a muscle strain or ligament sprain, normal cellular function is impaired. The soft tissue structure in our body goes through the natural healing process throughout specific phases of healing after the injury....