Achieve_Helping Aches and Pains

Are you like many people, suffering from aches and pains? A daily back or neck ache may be more of a nuisance than anything. However, episodes of pain can become progressively worse, lasting longer and traveling to other parts of your body. If you don’t stop the cycle of pain and discover the root cause of each painful episode, the accumulation of damage to your body may lead to eventual failure of the spinal structures and possible surgery. However, if you address and treat the cause of your pain early through physical therapy, drastic measures such as surgery can often be avoided.

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How To Not Let Aches & Pains Hold You Back! 4 Ways To Beat The Pain!

3. EXERCISE Regular exercise can help restore proper muscle tone. Walking, cycling and swimming are good aerobic activities to try. Be sure to warm up before exercising and cool down afterward. Our experts at Achieve Therapy and Fitness teach you stretching, toning and aerobic exercises to feel better and stay pain- free. Drink lots of fluids. Begin slowly and increase workouts gradually. Avoid high-impact aerobic activities and weight lifting when injured or while in pain. Consult one of our experts or your doctor before trying exercises you are unsure of doing. 4. PHYSICAL THERAPY Through our program, specialized hands-on techniques and treatments are applied, addressing the poor alignment and dysfunction of the spine, which can irritate and cause pressure on nerves. Physical therapy is the science of restoring pain-free movement with exercises and hands-on techniques. These principles are applied to the body when an injury is sustained to help facilitate a great recovery.

Are you like many people, suffering from aches and pains? A daily back or neck ache may be more of a nuisance than anything. However, episodes of pain can become progressively worse, lasting longer and traveling to other parts of your body. If you don’t stop the cycle of pain and discover the root cause of each painful episode, the accumulation of damage to your body may lead to eventual failure of the spinal structures and possible surgery. However, if you address and treat the cause of your pain early through physical therapy, drastic measures such as surgery can often be avoided. Here are some tips to help you battle daily aches and pains: 1. ICE & HEAT For muscle pain from overuse or injury, rest that body part and take acetaminophen or ibuprofen depending on what your doctor may advise you is best. Apply ice for the first 24 - 72 hours of an injury to reduce pain and inflammation. After that, heat often feels more soothing. 2. SLEEP Be sure to get plenty of sleep and try to reduce stress. The amount of sleep is dependent on your body. Some people only require 7 hours, others 9. Also, make sure you have a good mattress and sleep on your side or back with pillow support for your legs. If you sleep on your side, put the pillow between your legs. If you sleep on your back, put the pillow behind your thighs.

If you are suffering fromaches and pains, call us today to learn more about how you can return to a pain-free active lifestyle!

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Why Do Your Muscles Ache?

Muscle aches and pains are common, typically involving more than one muscle. Muscle pain can also involve ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues that connect muscles, bones, and organs. Muscle pain is most frequently related to stress, tension, overuse, or muscle injury from exercise or physically-demanding work. In these situations, the pain tends to involve specific muscles and starts during or just after the activity. It is usually obvious which posture or activity is causing the pain. Most aches and pains are temporary and generally last 1-3 days. However, once muscle pain begins to go past 3 days without changing, or you feel the same aches and pains repeatedly, it’s time to give us a call as there may be an underlying problem such as muscle imbalance, or stiff tissues and joints. The most common causes are: • Injury or trauma including sprains and strains • Overuse • Tension or stress Muscle pain may also be due to: • Certain drugs, including: -Medicine lowering blood pressure -Medicine lowering cholesterol • Infections • Cold & Influenza (flu) • Electrolyte imbalances, such as too little potassium or calcium • Fibromyalgia Medical Therapeuti

Exercise Essentials

LOWER TRUNK ROTATIONS Lying on your back with your knees bent, gently rock your knees side-to-side. Repeat 8 times on both sides. Mobility

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Medical Therapeutic Yoga, an adaptive yoga method that equips you with the knowledge to practice yoga at home or in your community for lifelong wellness and injury prevention. This is an excellent gateway into practicing yoga, especially for those who have hesitated to start because of an orthopedic condition. Must be able to get on and off the floor without help or with chair support. Call today about registration, space is limited to 6 participants. Time: Tuesdays 6:30—7:45 PM, July 10—Aug 21 Cost : $140 ( Fitness membership not required to participate) Location: 1425 S Columbia Road, Grand Forks To Register call 701.746.8374 Medical Therapeutic Yoga, an adaptive yoga met that equips you with the knowledge to practice y home or in your community for lifelong wellness injury preventio . This is an excellent gateway in practicing y a, especially r those who have he to start because of an orthopedic condition. Must be able to get on and off the floor without with chair support. Call today ab ut registration, is limited to 6 participants. Time: Tuesdays 6:30—7:45 PM, July 10—Aug

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Achieve Offers Many Treatment Options for Pain One of the unique challenges of treating pain is that there is no single fix for all the causes. As varied as we are as humans, so are the treatments that alleviate or eliminate pain. At Achieve, we strive to find solutions that work for our patients. Our therapists constantly seek methods that might be novel, yet affective, in solving the pain problem. It is for that reason you will find treatments offered in our clinics that you may not find anywhere else in the areas we serve. From Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) to Primal Reflex Release Techniques (PRRT), Achieve has been at the forefront of bringing new treatments to the communities we serve, and that is something we will always do. We take pride, and thoroughly enjoy, helping solve the pain puzzle for our patients. So here are some of the latest techniques & methods our clinicians now have available for you. Dry Needling and reduce or restore impairments of body structure and function leading to improved activity and participation.” Achieve currently has 7 clinicians certified in dry needling who utilize this technique to treat conditions such as chronic pain, muscle strains and tendonitis. More information on Dry Needling at Achieve can be found on our website under Special Services. Astym ® Medical Therapeutic Yoga Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MYT) is the most recent offering we have brought to Achieve Therapy. MYT is the practice of yoga in medicine, rehabilitation, and wellness settings instructed by a licensed health care professional who is completing or has graduated from the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute (PYTI) program. Many people have turned to yoga as a method of dealing with musculoskeletal and low back pain. MYT offers modifications to accommodate musculoskeletal concerns to make yoga accessible for any skill level or body. It utilizes research-based breathing techniques to maximize respiratory capacity as well as biomechanical alignment principles that promote optimal joint efficiency.

Achieve Therapy in Grand Forks will now be offering a 6 week course on MYT for Low Back Pain, led by Dr. Anni Engelhardt, PT, DPT, PYT-c. Anni began practicing yoga in her early twenties when faced with insomnia during graduate school. Yoga helped her recognize the importance of managing stress as it relates to both emotional and physical components of pain. After finishing coursework in Medical Therapeutic Yoga, she can now share her tools for self-care with others!

Astym® (pronounced A-stim) treatment sets the standard for soft tissue therapy. It regenerates healthy soft tissue, such as muscle and tendon, and removes unwanted scar tissue that may be causing pain or restricting movement. This treatment restores movement, decreases pain, and allows patients the ability to get back to living the life they want to. One particular population this treatment serves well is the post mastectomy breast cancer survivors. A recent study , “Astym Improves Function and Range of Motion Following Mastectomy” showed Astym® to be an effective treatment in addressing the soft tissue & scar dysfunction that often times go untreated in the breast cancer patient. A link to this study may be found under the Astym tab on our website.

Because they both use very thin filament needles, dry needling is often times confused with acupuncture. However, dry needling is a completely different approach to dealing with painful tissue. The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) states that “Dry Needling is a skilled intervention that uses a thin filiform needle to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying myofascial trigger points, muscular, and connective tissues for the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairments. Dry Needling is a technique used to treat dysfunctions in skeletal muscle, fascia, and connective tissue, and, diminish persistent peripheral nociceptive input,

“Join me for this adaptive yoga method that equips you with the knowledge to practice yoga at home or in your community for lifelong wellness and injury prevention!” ~Anni

If you are interested in learning more about any one of these treatments and how they can benefit you, please call the clinic nearest you to learn more. You may also find more information on our website, achieve-therapy.com.

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