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PINNACLE PHYSICAL THERAPY NEWS The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body
Managing Your Knee Or Hip Pain While Walking
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• Managing Your Knee Or Hip Pain While Walking • Great Results from Postural Restoration Physical Therapy • See Our Full Schedule of Educational Workshops! • Natural Long-Term Solutions for Hip Pain
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PINNACLE PHYSICAL THERAPY NEWS The Newsletter About Your Health And Caring For Your Body
Bend & Stretch As If You Never Had Pain! Managing Your Knee Or Hip Pain While Walking
Do you find it harder to walk, run or exercise? Is hip, knee or leg pain keeping you from being active? If so, understanding how your body walks and moves can be the key to putting the spring back in your step. Put the Spring Back in Your Step Think of your body as a big spring that stores and releases energy with every step. The efficiency of your walk comes from the effectiveness of your flexibility, strength, and balance. When any one of these is off, it affects your ability to walk efficiently and takes a lot of energy. This results in strain to different joints and makes muscles work much harder than they need to, which leads to possible pain in the back, hips, and knees. It also causes fatigue after walking, even for a little while. The Remedy When you walk, run and move, your hip and knee work together to allow you to move fluidly and accurately. When one of these joints and the associated muscle groups that make them move are not working
properly, pain can occur in different parts of the leg. Hip pain can leave you with limited movement and make walking painful. This pain may radiate to the groin, buttock or thigh. The simple solution is to put the spring back in your step. This is accomplished by first analyzing how you walk. There are slight changes in the way that you walk and move, that the trained medical experts at Pinnacle Physical Therapy can pick up on. This analysis tells us just what joints or muscles are stiff, stuck or weak. By pinpointing the exact areas of your body that are not moving as they should, we can make a plan to increase motion, strength and improve coordination. Our expert physical therapists at Pinnacle Physical Therapy understand the complexities of hip movement and function. We examine your walking, movement, range of motion, strength, and coordination. Our evaluations enable us to pinpoint the source of your pain and to develop a series of manual therapies and exercises to reduce your pain and restore normal function. Call us today to learn more!
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Complimentary Workshops
Hip Pain Workshop
Balance, Dizziness, & Fear of Falling
Sacroiliac Joint (SIJ) Workshop
Tuesday, January 8th @ 6 pm
Thursday, January 24th @ 6 pm
Monday, February 4th @ 6 pm
• Learn why doctors call the SIJ the most misunderstood, misdiagnosed and most under- treated joint in the body • Find out how the SI joint gets shifted, strained, sprained and twisted. • Learncomprehensive treatments tostabilizeyour SI jointnaturallyandavoid injections,andsurgical fixation.
• Discover how the hip works… and the specific source of your pain (such as bursitis, arthritis, sciatica, tendonitis, labrum tear, leg length discrepancy, instability, and ligament strain) • Learnhowphysical therapycaneliminatehippain naturally,maintain long-termresults,andavoidhip replacement.
Learn what causes your balance to worsen as youage.Discovernaturalsolutionsfor improving balanceandgetting ridofvertigoanddizziness whilegaining theconfidenceneeded togetback to life!
Low Back Pain & Sciatica February 21st @ 6:00 pm
Neck Pain & Headaches Workshop March 12th @ 6:00 pm
Balance, Dizziness, Vertigo, and the Fear of Falling March 28th @ 6:00 pm
Register online at www.pinnaclephysicaltherapy.org/workshops
All Events Are Free • Limited Seating Events Filling Up Fast • Register Online Or By Calling (208) 777-4242
Natural Long-Term Solutions for Hip Pain
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Great Results from Postural Restoration Physical Therapy
It’s a gift to the North Idaho community that Stefanie is utilizing advanced manual and exercise application of PRI principles to bring the best long- term solutions to our patients, allowing them to get out of pain and realize their activity potential. She’s not only curing patients of pain, but equipping them with the tools to maintain optimal function and prevent future recurrences for a lifetime. Check out these fantastic wins she had with our patient Brian recently. “My reason for using Pinnacle services was that I was a referee for twenty-four years in four competitive sports during the academic year and recreation baseball/softball during the summer months. This finally had detrimental effects on my knee joints. This led to double knee replacement surgeries. I found that after the last surgery, I had no balance, my posture was nonexistent and my walk was awkward. Stefanie Wren took my case. After working with me for the year, I now have good posture. My balance is back and my walk is better than it ever was. I can attest to the professional knowledge and rigor of help on the part of the Pinnacle staff in solving the physical problems from surgical corrections to the body.” - Brian K.
We’re proud to offer a diverse team of physical therapists that are highly trained professionals in a variety of specialty areas. Some have intense interests in spinal care, others in treating shoulders, knees/hips and walking problems. What’s common is that they’re all adept at uncovering the root cause of your symptoms. Our therapists are, in essence, “PT Geeks”. Recently, Stefanie Wren, PT, DPT, has been ‘geeking out’ and taking a deeper dive into Postural Restoration Institute training to advance her skills in mastering pathologic human movement. She has recently completed a Postural Restoration educational course, and partakes in frequent online PRI clinical reasoning education in addition to deeply digesting PRI concepts through regular mentoring sessions with our owner Mark Bengtson, MPT. All of this intense study is geared towards providing patients with answers they can’t find elsewhere, giving them specific skills to address injuries and limitations, and returning them to a highly functional state - often better than before their issues began. Stefanie is acquiring awesome results with patients that have have lower back pain, piriformis syndromes, SIJ instability, shoulder and neck pain, pelvic floor weakness, hip impingement and lower leg problems.
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