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Dizziness-Is it vertigo or your neck causing your dizziness?   Have you ever suffered from dizziness? Has a doctor or a friend ever told you that you have vertigo? Did you know that vertigo is actually symptom and not a disease or pathology? Vertigo simply means you have dizziness.  If you have ever had any sort of dizziness then you technically have had vertigo.  There is a condition known as BPPV-benign paroxysmal positional vertigo that Read more…

Do you know how to BALANCE a check book? Do you struggle to find a work-life BALANCE? Do you know about the US government system of checks and BALANCES? Are you familiar with the story of baLANCE-elot of King Arthur’s Court? Okay, that last one was absolutely awful but are you sensing a theme yet? Pop quiz: Which person will benefit the most from balance training? A) The 14 year old female gymnast B) The Read more…

“If my back was stronger, it wouldn’t go out all the time.” Have you ever said this before? What if I told you your back might not be the culprit? Somewhere in the ballpark of 80% of Americans will experience back pain at some point in their lives and will be given medications, possibly an MRI (See previous blog regarding low back pain correlation to MRI results), abdominal strengthening, or my personal favorite, the ol’ Read more…

Top 5 exercises for correcting Shoulder Impingement   Do you have chronic pain in your shoulder(s)? Do you want to do something about it? If your answers to these questions were Yes and YES, then you are in luck! What if I told you that you can eliminate your shoulder pain with a couple quick exercises and some basic know-how about shoulder posture? Okay, enough with the questions already! I know you’re interested, otherwise you Read more…

  Alright.. I know I have written about this topic before, but I had a recent frustrating phone conversation with my mother and realized I need to continue preaching this concept. My mom recently hurt her knee while she was walking. When talking about her condition over the phone, I recommended she go to see a physical therapist in her area. She said and I quote “…I think I just need to go get an Read more…

If you haven’t heard of T4 Syndrome I’m happy to introduce you to it. It is a collection of symptoms that can lead to chronic headaches, neck pain, mid back pain, or arm numbness/tingling/pain. Here at Chandler Physical therapy, we help patients with this diagnosis nearly every single day. We take a multi-faceted approach. In the videos below we introduce the syndrome and follow up with different treatment approaches!  If you think that you, or Read more…

Tendonitis or Tendonosis? What’s the difference? Just like back pain, knee pain and neck pain, “tendonitis” is also something we as therapists see on a regular basis, whether it is the shoulder, elbow, ankle or foot.   Let’s use plantar fasciitis as an example.   If we break the word down, plantar means bottom of the foot, fascia is a band or sheet of connective tissue, and itis means inflammation.  So this means that there is inflammation Read more…

Is Back Pain Keeping You Down? Are you one of the millions of people suffering from low back?  Back pain is probably the most common issue that is treated in most PT clinics and for good reason.  8 out of 10 people will suffer from back pain at some point in time during their life and 54% of those who experience back pain spend the majority of their workday sitting.  So what if I told Read more…

Picture this. You’re out shopping. Thankfully, you found some amazing pieces of clothing that you’re dying to find out if they fit so you can spend your hard earned money on them.  You’re ready to go try some things on in the changing rooms and when you step into the room you’re greeted with the smell of…. poo. Yes. Some un-thoughtful parent left their baby’s adult sized bomb unsealed in a diaper right there in Read more…

Let’s air out a dirty little secret. Being strong and being stable are two different and important concepts to understand. I get this question and/or comment a lot, particularly in relation to neck pain.  So what is the difference, and why the heck are they so important anyway? Let’s talk about strength first. I often will group muscle activation and strength in the same category. Strength, or activation is the ability for the muscle to Read more…

Howdy. Are you ready for pure gold in blog format? Because that probably isn’t what this is… but being a DPT student at the end of my final week of my final rotation EVER, I may or may not (but definitely do) have some nuggets of knowledge I’m about to drop on your face. My name is Jake, Chapman University Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2017 and I’m about to tell you a story Read more…

Learn these 3 must-do foam roll exercises the help treat low back pain by watching the video above! These are a compilation of the three most prescribed foam roll exercises at Chandler Physical Therapy for low back pain.  As a BONUS, I’ve created a PDF hard copy reference to accompany this video so you can have a quick reference sheet close by. If you’re interested, CLICK the picture below, enter your information, and we will Read more…

I’ll admit. I hesitated to join this course initially (after listening to Paul Gough and why I can’t decide on anything, I now understand why…). It wasn’t for the quality of the speakers – all of whom are near and dear to my heart on twitter and, as the kids say, IRL. It was for lack of understanding about what it was. What I could possibly take away from something that seems so damn obvious. Read more…