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Flu Tips For The Physical Therapy Clinic

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Yes, I know what you’re thinking.  “What does physical therapy have to do with the flu?”  Honestly, physical therapy doesn’t have anything to do with the flu directly.  However we’ve had a lot of people either come down with the flu or come into our clinics with flu-like symptoms.  And as a public facility that serves a large number of physical therapy patients in Elizabeth and Jersey City, in order to help everyone, we’re offering our best flu-prevention tips!

Genuine Care In Physical Therapy

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When it comes to high performance athletics, we know that we’re always willing to go the extra mile for our patients.  From our AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill to personally doing research for each individual patient in order to find the right combination of physical therapy treatments, we’re always willing to do whatever it takes.  And it shows in the results of our physical therapy patients.

Toys For Tots At Complete Physical Rehab!

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The holiday season is in full swing at Complete Physical Rehabilitation!

Each year, we collect toys in our Elizabeth and Jersey City Physical Therapy clinics for the Toys for Tots program.  Dr. James and Dr. Asha drop off all collected donations personally to the Kenilworth Fire Station, the designated Toys For Tots dropoff location in their town. 

How Should I Take Care Of My Back?

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For all of my Physical Therapy patients that I’m treating for their back problems, this question comes up 100% of the time.  “How should I take care of my back?”  For such a general question, which could possibly have a million different answers, I actually find myself coming back to the same solutions time and time again.

The Top Home Exercises For Sciatica (Part 2)

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In my previous post, we began the series on my favorite exercises for back pain coming from sciatica that I give all my Physical Therapy patients in the Elizabeth and Jersey City clinics.  We started out with a simple prone prop up on the elbows.  Now that we’ve got the basic prone prop up on the elbows down pat, and once that exercise can be performed with absolutely no discomfort or pain, we can now follow the progression into the next motion:

The Trick To Using The AlterG For Knee Pain

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When knee pain strikes as a result of running, the most common step that is taken when starting Physical Therapy is to first stop running altogether.  As with any injury, when you find out what activity is causing the pain to occur, you have to minimize your exposure to the pain-causing activity while treating so you can get pain levels down, as per the 3 Phases of Healing that Dr. Asha also uses for her sciatica and back pain Physical Therapy patients.  But with the AlterG Treadmill,  if you know how to use it correctly, you can be much more efficient by using one trick.

Back Pain, Sciatica, And The 3 Phases Of Healing

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In order to help my Physical Therapy patients in Elizabeth and Jersey City get back in to tip top shape after experiencing a setback due to the symptoms of sciatica creeping up on you, l have created what I like to call “The 3 Phases of Healing.”  These 3 phases create realistic, definable goals that you, the patient, can use to measure your progress on how your Physical Therapy is progressing.  So let’s go through each one, shall we?

Back Pain and Planking Exercises

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Planking.  It has become one of the “go-to” exercises for so many gym rats that are looking to strengthen their core in order to stave away back pain.

But how effective is a plank, really?  Dr. Asha has the answer for you now!

Back Braces And Back Pain

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Recently I have discussed the stretches necessary for preventing lower back pain in the workplace as well as my top secrets for reducing pain upon the start of a lower back pain attack, but I am here today to answer the questions about lumbar braces. 

Many people always ask me on their first visit “Should I buy a lumbar brace” or what can I buy, or “I saw this on an infomercial, it looks great, and I just bought it what do you think?” 

Well…