Category: Wellness

Kneed A Knew Knee Aug30th 2018

Kneed A Knew Knee?

On Tuesday, September 18th, Appalachian Physical Therapy in Harrisonburg, (located between Koh’s and Martin’s) will be hosting Kneed A Knew Knee: A Deeper Look at Knee Pain Treatment Options seminar from 7pm-8pm. Dr. Danial Mills, PT, DPT, and Dr. Bill Whiteford, PT, DPT will be speaking about causes of knee pain (beyond arthritis), alternatives to

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Saturdays With Parkinson's Jun28th 2018

Saturdays With Parkinson’s

Your invited to join us at Appalachian Physical Therapy in Harrisonburg on Saturday, November 10th, from 11am-12pm For our Saturday’s with Parkinson’s group exercise class. The exercise class will  be lead by Dr. Jennifer Grove, PT, DPT, LSVT BIG® certified clinician and PWR!® Certified Instructor and Leigh Nicolas PWR® Certified Instructor. As the saying goes, if you

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Spring Runner's Clinic May10th 2018

Spring Runner’s Clinic

On Tuesday, May 22nd, Appalachian Physical Therapy and Bluestone Bike and Run will be hosting a runners clinic at our Harrisonburg office. The event will consist of a discussion of proper foot mechanics, footwear selection, the latest research on running and injury prevention, shod versus barefoot running, and avoiding common training errors. The format will

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Fitness Maintenance Program Mar22nd 2018

Fitness Maintenance Program

Anyone who has undergone physical therapy during their lifetime understands the benefits and huge impact it can have on their life. Unfortunately, research has shown that a large number of people who do well in physical therapy fail to maintain the gains they have achieved once they have discontinued care. This situation can occur for

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Don't Fall for Anything Aug30th 2017

Don’t Fall for Anything

It is estimated that one in four adults over the age of 65 will fall this year. However, falls are not a normal part of aging. That was the emphasis of the Falls Prevention seminar we recently hosted at our Harrisonburg clinic. Over 32 area residents attended to learn more about the many factors that

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Parkinson's Disease Aug8th 2017

Action Moves for Parkinson’s Disease

Exercise is beneficial, this is something we have known and read about every day and is especially true for people with Parkinson’s disease. Exercise helps you use your brain’s Dopamine more efficiently and protects your brain from further deterioration; it is neuroprotective! Research from the National Parkinson’s Foundation found that Parkinson’s patients who exercised a minimum of

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Wellness, Prevention, and Early Intervention Nov3rd 2016

Wellness, Prevention, and Early Intervention

The other day I was working with a 52 year old female patient with knee pain, we’ll call her Ann. She started talking about her 17 year old daughter, (let’s call her Mary) voicing concerns about her posture. Ann mentioned that Mary had intermittent headaches and neck complaints as well, and wondered if they were

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Activities of Daily Living Sep22nd 2016

Activities of Daily Living: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A large part of our role as physical therapists is to investigate and educate our patients about what activities or incidents contributed to their current pain or dysfunction. In the case of an acute injury or a trauma the causative factors involving the injury are generally straightforward. However, in cases

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Pinehurst Location Job Opening May4th 2016

What Is Physical Therapy?

As a follow up to our previous blog post on physical therapist education, I feel it’s fitting and appropriate to provide a more in depth post on what exactly we do as physical therapists. Quite often during our examination process and when delivering our treatment interventions our patients remark: “I didn’t know this was part

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Squat Exercise Nov11th 2015

Rehabilitating / Preventing Injury and Maximizing Sports Performance

With fall and cooler weather moving in many people are getting outside and exercising or returning to organized sports. From a physical therapy standpoint, this brings up two very important considerations: what can be done to prevent sports-related injuries and how can we maximize sports performance? Of course, one important way injury prevention and sports

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