Newsletter for Optimum Physio Therapies
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Do you feel sluggish or fatigued, as if it’s difficult to motivate yourself to get moving? Do your sore muscles or achy joints just add to that lack of motivation? If so, your body may be experiencing some physical problems.
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• Heroes Beyond The Mask • Exercise Essentials
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Living a sedentary life is one of the main reasons why people report having low energy or feeling chronic day-to-day aches. Long car commutes, desk jobs, watching T.V. once you get home from work… many people live their lives this way, with very little physical activity. While it may not seem like it is making an impact at the time, this type of sedentary lifestyle can damage your body over time. Why Is Physical Activity So Important? When you don’t participate in frequent physical activity, your muscles begin to weaken and over time they can even begin to atrophy. Inactive lifestyles also cause joints to become stiff and can alter the physiological chemical processes within your body. In fact, your circulation and lymphatic systems can slow down, which can pose harmful risks. These systems work in producing
and excreting toxic wastes (such as cholesterol) and these wastes can build up when the systems aren’t functioning as efficiently as they should. Lack of movement and poor posture are the causes of several types of pain, including lower back pain, neck pain, hip pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, and headaches. A slumped posture can even change the shape of your spine over time, in addition to closing your shoulder joints and tightening up the tissues around your hips. These consequences can cause severe pain and may result in a host of other problems if lifestyle changes are not made.
Contact Optimum Physio Therapies today to figure out how a consistent exercise plan can increase your energy and help you live a healthier life!
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HEROES BEYOND THE MASK: OPTIMUM PHYSIO THERAPIES
We are Optimum Physio Therapies: Dr. Mark De Anda, Sonia De Anda, Antonio Chavez, Aaron Coronado, Christian Rincon, Claudia Sanchez and Hiram Trevino. With COVID, our main goal at our physical therapy small business practice is making sure our patients are safe. To do that, our staff is trained, and we are following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health), U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and epidemiologists. We know our patients, and we treat them like family, taking their temperature, doing screenings, asking them how they feel, answering their questions and concerns, and providing them with masks and gloves when they come into our clinic. All of our staff also wear masks, and we are spacing out our patients in time and physical location so patients can get their treatments safely. Additionally, we have a company come in once per week to spray and sanitize the clinic like they do in hospitals to keep our patients safe. All this has become our new routine, and we have shared our practices with other PTs so they, too, can stay open while offering their patients safe care. Really, the clinic is cleaner than our house and the only place we would allow our children. Even our high-risk patients are still coming religiously, which shows how much they trust us and how safe they feel. Yes, it is an extra cost to keep the clinic open, and we feel the impacts of that, but if we can keep our patients safe and this clinic open, it is a cost we are willing to accept. We have a lot of patients who are post- op and in debilitating pain who need help now – they can’t wait two to three months. Closing would do our patients a disservice. COVID isn’t the only epidemic we are dealing with, and we can’t put these patients dealing with pain on the side burner.
Lie on stomach. Hold ankle with hand. Gently pull ankle toward the buttock. You should feel a stretch in the front of your thigh. Repeat 10 times on both legs. QUAD S T R E TCH PRONE EXERCI SE ESSENT IALS That being said, we are so proud of our staff! They took the initiative and quickly learned the CDC guidelines. We are also inspired by our patients. They drive us and make us feel like we are doing the right thing and what God wants us to be doing. This spiritual inspiration and everything He overcame is huge to us. We are also inspired by our other medical professional colleagues and what they are doing. We are grateful for so much: our family, kids, health, staff family, patient family, our clinic, our ability to provide jobs, our situation, our City of San Antonio. We are able to stay connected and to stay well mentally, physically, and spiritually in a number of ways. For staying connected to our extended family, we are using and thankful for technology and conferences. At home, to stay well, we are having more family time, gardening, doing home improvement with the kids, reading, doing schoolwork, and doing a lot of continuing education on new physical therapy and marketing techniques. We always eat healthy at home and exercise, so that is nothing new. We are also being mindful to avoid alcohol and other bad coping habits. Instead, we can convert our place to a mixed martial arts gym within five minutes, and we love it. Spiritually, we pray every night and attend church online. We are also donating funds to our church, the San Antonio Food Bank, and other programs around San Antonio we believe in. We are practicing patience and perseverance and ultimately are trying to make negatives into positives. When COVID is over, we are hopeful that this is a reset for everybody and that people become more appreciative of the things they do have. We are also looking forward to coming back a better, stronger, more organized clinic with new ways to help our patients and San Antonio community. Remember, this is not going to last forever. We control what we can control, and we leave the rest to God. It is our choice to make this a negative or a positive experience.
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DRY NEEDL I NG
Dry needling involves insertion and repetitive manipulation of a “dry”, solid filament needle in a trigger point in order to produce an involuntary spinal cord reflex, also known as a local twitch response (LTR). This results in lasting muscle relaxation due to the release of shortened bands of muscle fibers for overactive (tight) muscles or the activation of under-active (weak) muscles. Deactivation of the trigger points can bring immediate relief of symptoms, so the therapist can immediately train the muscles to work with the newly gained pain free range of motion (ROM).
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“I came in with a high ankle sprain and was unable to walk/run. Over the course of attending the weekly appointments, I experienced the very friendly and courteous staff. I am now able to play volleyball again and enjoy many recreational activities. Thank you to everyone that has assisted me in my healing process!” - Queen P. PAT I E NT SUC C E SS SPOT L I GHT
ABOUT US
ANNOUNC ING OUR NEW GOLF PERFORMANCE CL I N I C !
Our mission at Optimum Physio is to bring an excellent clinical experience through new therapies, community awareness and education. An excellent clinical experience through new techniques, tools, and innovative approaches to facilitate the natural healing of the body. Education to our patients and community through local events, educational workshops, publications of articles and books so to empower the people to make better health choices.
Benefits of our Golf Performance Clinic • Allows Golfers to increase power and hit further from the Tee Box • Lowering overall Golf score • Increases playtime endurance to go the full 18 • Play for many years to come with no pain
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