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Ice Is Cool!

When you have an injury, ice can be one of the most effective self-treatment methods you have at your disposal.  While gel packs or a refillable ice bag are the more convenient than say the form of ice shown above, your ice therapy doesn’t need to be anything particularly fancy.  A bag of [...]

Physical Therapy For Sports Injuries

Sports Injuries Recover Faster With Physical Therapy

San Antonio weather allows for a wide variety of sports to be played all year long.  Injuries are a part of any sport, although each sport will have a tendency towards certain types of injuries.  Soccer players get more ankle and knee injuries.  Baseball and softball players tend [...]

Physical Therapy And Headaches

Headaches Are Often Caused By Musculoskeletal Problems.

Physical therapy can often help with chronic headaches because many headache problems originate from underlying musculoskeletal conditions.

The most common type of headache is the muscle tension headache. While the name obviously suggests that the cause of these headaches is muscle tension, there is a bit more to it [...]

The Right Kind Of Therapy At The Right Time

By initiating the right treatment at the right time, a good physical therapist ensures that the patient will recover as quickly as possible and will have the best long-term [...]

It's Not So Much What You Lift, But How You Lift It

One of the most common causes of low back injuries is poor lifting form. Many people with lifting-related injuries assume that the reason they hurt their backs was because they tried to lift something that was too heavy. In reality, if they used proper lifting form, chances are they would not have been injured, even if they tried to lift something that weighed more than their muscles could [...]