ZPT GaZette Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body SUMMER 2021
INSIDE: Kick Your Knee and Hip Pain to the Curb • Success Stories• Healthy Recipe Team Spotlight • Satellite Clinic
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KICK YOUR KNEE AND HIP PAIN TO THE CURB!
Do you find it difficult to walk, run or exercise, as if your knees may collapse beneath you? Are you experiencing sharp pain in your hips or knees that make dressing or stair climbing difficult? Does prolonged standing pose as a challenging feat? If so, physical therapy can help. Intermittent or constant hip and knee pain can greatly hinder your daily life. The efficiency of walking comes from the effectiveness of your flexibility, strength and balance. When your joints are injured, or slowly deteriorating with arthritic changes, common daily activities may become challenging. Your ability to walk smoothly, to bend or to straighten your legs may become difficult or painful. Prolonged sitting can play a part in straining the joints also, as muscles tighten, weaken, and become unbalanced around your skeletal frame. Once a joint
becomes painful, a “compensatory limp” can occur, creating more problems in other areas of your body, such as lower back, feet, or the other leg. Physical Therapists are trained to identify gait deviations (walking issues) as well as test your joints for stability and flexibility. Having a physical therapy evaluation is a great way to start the investigation into what is causing your pain or limp, and to identify what can be done to fix it. Correcting your knee and hip pain with PT treatments: At Zionsville Physical Therapy, our licensed physical therapists aremovement experts! We analyze how you walk and move to determine any abnormalities, weaknesses, balance issues, and tightness. We perform specific tests to measure joint motion and muscular limitations. We then create a treatment
plan to improve strength, coordination, flexibility, balance, overall mobility and safety. Restoring normal joint motion is the key aspect to alleviating pain and allowing you to take part in all the activities you want to do. Your therapist will spend individual time working on your hips, knees, ankles or feet to assure you have the movement required. Your physical therapist will teach you about the specific methods to stretch, or to limit your joint motion to help alleviate your pain.
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ELAINE’S CORNER
Dear ZPT friends and family, Happy Summertime! The heat and humidity are turned
What are you doing to stay cool this summer? Are you working on home improvements, cleaning a closet, finding a shaded path to walk? What are you doing to improve YOURSELF? Reading, walking, exercising, meditating, praying, spending more quality time with family and friends, drinking more water, or limiting your sweet tooth? Take a couple small steps in the right direction and it will take you to the next
ELAINE MORRISON Owner
up high in Indiana, and we are all getting acclimated to temperatures and activities we have not had for a long time! Thank goodness for reopening businesses, summer concerts, fireworks, parades, all-class school reunions, and family gatherings! My husband, Kent, and I recently celebrated the addition of Ada Beverly, our fifth grandchild, born in late June to Kent’s youngest daughter, Jessica, and her husband, Chris, in Bozeman, Montana! She is gorgeous and holds a world of opportunities in her tiny fists. We are hoping to visit thembefore the end of summer! At ZPT we are extremely excited to welcome Caitlin (Pethick) Hathaway to our team as a physical therapist! She is a recent IU graduate and demonstrates great professional skills and wonderful connection with her patients. See her spotlight included in this newsletter.
level, that is, one giant leap toward healthier, happier living. Be encouraged! Be well! Stop in and see us, mask-free (hooray!) Gratefully, Elaine p.s. “Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!” Psalm 95
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