HOW PHYSICAL THERAPY CAN HELP
• From a standing position, with your feet planted flat on the floor, can you push your body into a squatting position? You should be able to squat all the way down so that your buttocks are almost touching your heels. If you aren’t able to do this, then physical therapy may be helpful in improving your range of motion. • Standing near a wall or countertop, arrange your feet so that you are standing with the heel of one foot touching the toes of the other, as if on a balance beam, and see how long you can stand still. Can you balance for 10 seconds? If not, then physical therapy may be able to improve balance and coordination. The goal of any physical therapy program is to restore range of motion and improveflexibilityandstrengthwhile reducing thegeneralexperience of pain. Unfortunately, hip and knee injuries often tend to linger. Every movement relies so heavily on the hips and knees that it makes it difficult to allow these joints to actually rest following an injury. Physical therapy provides targeted exercises that support the joints with precise movements that help reinforce strength and range of motion. For more information, contact your physical therapist to learn more about options that will suit your health needs. For more information about overcoming back pain, call 321-802-5814 to talk with your physical therapist today!
If you’ve experienced any hip or knee pain and are considering whether physical therapy is a good choice for your health needs, consider the following: • From a standing position, are you able to lean over and touch your toes? If so, then this indicates that you have proper hip and low back flexibility. If not, then you may need to improve your flexibility and joint range of motion, and physical therapy could be helpful. • In a sitting position, can you comfortably cross your legs, leaving your ankle to rest comfortably on the opposite knee? If this is painful, or one knee constantly must be lower than the other, then this may be indicative of knee concerns that could be addressed with physical therapy.
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captain for three of those years. Following undergraduate work he then went on to graduate school at Azusa Pacific University. At APU Dominick graduated with honors receiving a Doctor of Physical Therapy. He then went on to do residency in orthopedic manual physical therapy in the prestigious Kaiser Permanente program. Following residency he had the opportunity to continue his education and training by completing the Kaiser Permanente Movement Science Fellowship. Upon completion of the fellowship training Dominick and his wife, Kristen, moved to the Melbourne area, where Dominick has been practicing since. Dominick comes to First Choice following practicing at first as a physical therapist and then acting as the director of the orthopedic outpatient physical therapy clinic where he was practicing.
In his free time Dominick enjoys spending quality time with his wife and children, going to Disney, watching baseball, and biking. You can learn more about Dominick and other staff members by visiting our website at www.myfirstchoicept.com!
Dominick Paluso, PT, DPT , graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara with a B.S. in Kinesiology, during his time at Westmont he had the opportunity to play baseball all four years and was the team
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