Free Motion Physical Therapy of Brevard PA

For all our patients who enjoy exercising in their pools, especially during those hot summer days!

Keep moving! ☀️🌴💦

Health Tips | 10 Exercises To Do In the Pool Pool (aquatic) exercise provides many benefits, including an ideal environment to exercise throughout the year for people of all ages and abilities. These water exercises can improve your flexibility and strengthen your muscles.

We are here for you, and continue to take every precaution possible to ensure that you have a safe and clean environment to continue or begin your therapy with us!

✅ We ensure our clinics, linens and equipment are disinfected properly between each patient
😷 All staff to wear masks, and we encourage patients to wear mask/face covering
🚘 Patients can call upon arrival and remain in their vehicle until therapist is ready

Stay safe, be well, and keep moving!

Please keep moving! Stay active with your home exercise programs or other activities that you enjoy doing while at home. Stay safe and be well!

Maintaining Physical Activity During COVID-19 and Social Distancing COVID-19 is causing significant disruptions to all areas of life and presents a serious threat to health. But practicing social distancing doesn’t mean that you have to stop being physically active. T

What Patients Should Know About Degenerative Disk Disease Despite its name degenerative disc disease (DDD) is not caused by a specific disease. Rather it is osteoarthritis of the spine, which occurs as a natural part of aging in some people. A diagnosis of D

Your body needs movement.
If some type of condition or injury is holding you back from doing the things you want to do, consider calling a physical therapist to find out how they can help.

9 Things Your Physical Therapist Wants You To Know About Aging Well We can't stop time. But with the right type and amount of physical activity, we can help stave off many age-related health problems and live life to its fullest. Physical therapists are movement exper

And there’s evidence that PT is effective at treating low back pain

The opioid crisis is partly fueled by insurers' approach to back pain - STAT Insurers and employers contribute to the opioid crisis by taking the easy way out of covering the treatment for back pain and other painful maladies.

'No Bigger Fan': US Surgeon General Believes the Physical Therapy Profession is a Key Player in the Fight Against Opioid Misuse Thursday, January 24, 2019'No Bigger Fan': US Surgeon General Believes the Physical Therapy Profession is a Key Player in the Fight Against Opioid Misuse If you think the physical therapy profession has an important role to play in improving public health on multiple fronts, you won't get any argume...

Large-Scale Study Finds Connection Between Early Physical Therapy and Lower Opioid Use Friday, December 14, 2018Large-Scale Study Finds Connection Between Early Physical Therapy and Lower Opioid Use The evidence of physical therapy's potential to make a difference in the nation's opioid crisis continues to mount—this time, by way of a study in JAMA Network Open, which concludes that...

We can't stop time. Or can we? The right type and amount of physical activity can help stave off many age-related health problems. http://bit.ly/2Ah2u6B

Share the PAIN PYRAMID!

The first thing that might pop into your mind is,”Get rid of my pain!” While this may be an optimal long term goal, it isn’t the goal you want to focus your efforts on today.

Let’s look at from a different angle…

When you think about trying not to have pain, you’re thinking about your pain!

What should you focus on FIRST?

Check out the pyramid.

Remember, it’s not a race. The amount of time it takes to master each level of the pyramid is unique for everyone. Take your time and make small gradual changes at first.

Pre-hab works!

New Research Shows: Physical Therapy First for Low Back Pain Curbs Opioid Prescriptions and Lowers Costs Adding to a growing body of evidence for physical therapist treatment of low back pain (LBP), a new study shows that using it as a first-line approach not only saves money, but also dramatically reduc

You're probably getting the wrong treatment for back pain Poor treatment is fueling the opioid epidemic

Get moving and stay active. It doesn't have to be complicated. Check out all the benefits of walking.

Great infographic from the California Physical Therapy Association!

If you select a random amount of people that don't have any problems or complaints, almost all of them will have something abnormal on their MRI.

Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: Physical Therapy vs. Opioid Medications According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and so have sales of these prescriptions. From 1999 to 2015, more than 183,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdose related to subscription opioids.

Free Motion Physical Therapy of Brevard PA updated their phone number.

7 Myths About Physical Therapy People everywhere are experiencing the transformative effect physical therapy can have on their daily lives. In fact, as experts in the way the body moves, physical therapists help people of all ages

How Physical Therapists Manage Pain Physical therapy is among the safe, effective alternatives recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in guidelines urging the avoidance of opioids for most pain treatment.

We know through research that people with arthritis can exercise without worsening their pain. http://bit.ly/29Ro6HR

A Physical Therapist Can Help Shoulder Pain And Rotator Cuff Injuries | GetPT1st A Physical Therapist Can Help Shoulder Pain And Rotator Cuff Injuries by Sean Hagey | May 30, 2016 | Physical Therapy | 0 comments Get Relief From Shoulder Pain With Physical Therapy Does your shoulder bother you at the end of the day? Is shoulder pain keeping you from playing with your kids or gran...

MRI Findings Not Helpful in Determining Herniated Disc-related Sciatica Treatment New research finds that “MRI has no value in the decision making between early surgery and prolonged conservative care.”

Why Ab Separation Happens—And How to Fix It Pregnancy does all kinds of things to a woman’s body, and some of them—like weird cravings or the need to p*e all the time—are temporary. But there are other changes that don’t always resolve immediately after the baby is born. One of these is a condition called diastasis recti abdominus—and it can…

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Physical therapists work with people of all ages to help them be their best and enjoy life!

Got an ache or pain that's keeping you down? Keep calm and call your physical therapist!