Move to Live Newsletter by Choice Physical Therapy
Move to Live Your Resource to Moving Well and Living Life
NICOLE MCOMBER, PATIENT CARE COORDINATOR Getting To Know The Choice Physical Therapy Team!
Personal Life Meet Nicole! She was born and raised in Cohoes, New York. Nicole is a graduate of Cohoes High School, HVCC, and Paul Mitchell the School-Schenectady! She thoroughly enjoys the sunshine, playing sports of all kinds (even with only playing softball herself for 15 years), and doing hair for fun! She is an aunt to five wonderful nieces and nephews whom she adores spending time with, along with the rest of her family and friends! Loving life is what she does best. “Smile, Its contagious!”
What can our Patient Care Coordinators do for you? • Call your insurance company to see if you qualify for physical therapy • Review and explain what type of benefits you have and if you have a co-payment or deductible for each visit • Set up text or call reminders for your first or follow-up visits • Schedule out your full plan of care with times of the week/day that work best for you • Assist clinicians with prepping paperwork for your job, school, coaches, adjustor, or insurance representative • Give you the answer to our weekly chalkboard trivia questions ;)
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IS YOUR BODY READY FOR A TUNE UP?
We’re not wasting any time this month, quiz time! Grab a pen and fill in the blanks below:
do...you roll down the windows and crank up the radio. Ahhh, can’t hear that noise anymore, better! Get wherever you’re headed, park that trusty Civic and carry on with your day. Many times, we end up taking the same approach with our body. We ignore, alter, or modify our aches and pains. “My back isn’t that bad, as long as I take my Aleve, I can garden as long as I like!” Not that Aleve is a bad thing, and can be a very helpful part of an entire treatment plan, but does that sound that much different than: “My car isn’t that bad, as long as I open my windows and crank up the radio to drown out that engine noise, I can drive as long as I like!” At Choice, we feel that the most empowering and beneficial part of Physical Therapy is gaining an understanding of how your body is supposed to be moving and how YOUR body may be compensating. From there, we can gameplan what type of “regular maintenance” you can perform on your body.Then you don’t have to keep driving around with your windows down and radio cranked up and you can get back to living your life.
What is considered “good” blood pressure? What is considered “good” eyesight? What is considered “good” movement?
No seriously, go back and write your answers in. Alright, how’d you do? Typically, blood pressure we’d want to be around 120/80.Typically, “good” eyesight is considered 20/20. Typically, “good” movement…(cricket, cricket). Historically, we just don’t do a great job of measuring movement on a regular basis. When was the last time you did anything physical at your yearly physical? Most commonly, we wait until we’ve already been injured until we test our our movement...maybe there is a better way? Painful Yarns by G. Lorimer Moseley is an excellent book that explains pain and how we think about/deal with our pain. Analogies about pain are sprinkled throughout the book but one in particular really stood out to me. You’re driving down the road in your trusty 1991 light blue Honda Civic (everyone remembers their first car, right?). You pull up to a stop light and the engine starts making a noise somewhere between nails on a chalkboard and a less than desirable grinding. You look around to see who else can hear the noise and just as any responsible person would
Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer!
Joe
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6 BACK CONDITIONS NOT TO IGNORE Continue An Active Lifestyle Free Of Pain!
Do you feel aches and pains in your lower back? If so, you are not alone. Four out of every five Americans will suffer from back pain at some time in their lives. Without proper spine mobility, stability and alignment your back structures wear down over time, similar to tires that are out of alignment. There are many different back conditions, but here are a few common ones: 1. Lumbar or sacral radiculopathy: The result of pressure on a nerve exiting the spine. Pain, numbness and tingling can be felt down in different parts of the leg. 2. Sciatica: This comes from compression of the sciatic nerve by a muscle called the piriformis, deep in the buttock. Symptoms can radiate down the buttock and leg. 3. Spinal stenosis: This is a narrowing of the bony spinal canal which causes rubbing or pressure on nerves. Central canal stenosis is quite serious as it presses upon the spinal cord. 4. Lumbar sprain/strain: This is a common cause of low back pain due to injury of muscles and tendons. The rows of muscles that run up and down the sides of the spinal column, are the major muscle groups usually involved in lower back injury. 5. Fractures: These are due to trauma, or sometimes occur without any injury in people with osteoporosis. 6. Spinal cord compression: This is unusual, but very worrisome and may be associated with weakness and loss of bowel/bladder control.
Medication and Bed Rest. Most lower back pain sufferers try over the counter drugs and bed rest. However, most self remedies will not provide the relief that you need. In fact, bed rest is the wrong thing to do because it can weaken the spinal muscles further. Weakness in the spinal muscles is one of the main reasons for low back pain and puts you at risk for injuring your back with common activities such as lifting, bending or squatting. Most of us sit too much and this contributes to severe weakening of the back and torso muscles which are needed for a healthy back.
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Exercise Essentials Try this movement if you are experiencing hip pain.
Healthy Recipe: Spinach Dip
Loosens Hip
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THOMAS HIP FLEXOR STRETCH Start by lying flat on your back on a table or bed. Slide close to the side edge of the surface so that you can hang your affected leg down off the side or end. Hug the knee of your uninvolved leg to your chest. Hold for 20 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
INGREDIENTS • 1 package frozen spinach (drain) • 2 - 8 oz packages cream cheese • 1 package colby jack cheese • 1 package parmesan cheese
• 2 cans of Rotel • Small onion, chopped • 1 tsp cumin or to taste • 1 tsp garlic salt or to taste
INSTRUCTIONS Combine all ingredients well and place in a 11 x 13 pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 - 40 minutes.
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“I came to Choice Physical Therapy after hip surgery left me unable to walk without the use of crutches. All of the therapists were incredibly knowledgeable and were able to communicate the steps of my recovery in easy-to-digest terms. I recovered from my surgery in the shortest timetable laid out by my doctor, and was able to return to an active lifestyle including rowing at the collegegiate level.” – Anthony D. All of the therapists were incredibly knowledgeable...
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In The Community
As a way to give back to, not only the future of Physical Therapy but also the youth of our community, we are pleased to present two high school graduates with the 3rd Annual Choice PT Scholarship Award. These scholarships are presented to seniors in the graduating class who are pursuing a doctorate degree in physical therapy in theupcoming fall.Candidates from localhigh schools must submit an essay giving a brief biography as well as their reasons for entering the field of PT. This years winners are Catholic Central High School graduate Jane Field, who is attending Utica College in the fall (Left); and Troy High School graduate Isabelle Churan, who is attending Ithaca College in the fall. This past school year Isabelle completed observation hours with our clinic Supervisor Sarah Cipperly. (Right)
Congrats again to Jane and Isabelle!!, Erin : )
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