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If You’re Taking Opioids for Your Arthritis Pain, This Blog is For You
130: that’s how many people on average die of from opioids every day in the United States. It’s a stunning statistic that sadly impacts nearly every community in our country, since opioid abuse and addiction affects people from all walks of life.
Many people who become addicted to opioids were first prescribed them by a medical doctor as a way to manage an acute or chronic pain condition. The problem is, opioid medications:
- Can be highly addictive
- Only hide symptoms of pain—they don’t address the underlying causes, which makes opioids less cost-effective over time
- Are associated with an increased risk of uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms and depression
Unfortunately, in addition to an opioid epidemic in this country, researchers believe there is also a chronic pain epidemic, too.
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How Does Nutrition Help Relieve Pain and Inflammation?
Discovering the Many Benefits of Custom Orthotics
Have You Given Any Thought to Custom Orthotics?
Have you heard of custom orthotics? According to VeryWell Health,
“An orthotic is an orthopedic appliance or apparatus used to support, align, prevent, or correct deformities or to improve the function of movable parts of the body. Simply put, an orthotic is any device that is applied to your body that is meant to help you move and function better.
Read full blogNutrition Tips To Decrease Pain and Inflammation
Nutrition plays a crucial role in preventing and eliminating pain and inflammation in the body. It’s important to understand what pain and inflammation are, the causes and symptoms, and how both nutrition and physical therapy can help. If you’re experiencing pain and inflammation in your joints, the cause could be more obvious than you think. Contact Peak Ortho PT to learn more about how we can help alleviate your pain and inflammation.
Understanding Pain and Inflammation
Pain and inflammation are often connected.
Read full blogChronic Back Pain Doesn’t Have to Control You – Reclaim Your Life with Physical Therapy
When you have chronic back pain, it can feel like every aspect of your life gets interrupted. Pain at work can lead to decreased productivity, sick days, and increased stress. Pain at home can prevent you from being able to care for yourself and your loved ones. Chronic back pain can even make it difficult to exercise and stay active, which may lead to even more pain, weight gain, and other issues associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
Read full blogGet More Out of Your Workouts with A Proper Nutrition Plan!
A Nutritional Diet Can Help You Reach Your Physical Goals!
You are what you eat, so if your plan is to be the strongest, most powerful athlete you can be, then you need to eat the part. Focusing too much on the workouts and not enough on the nutrition side of becoming an athlete is a rookie mistake.
If you are heading out on a road trip, then you fill your car up with fuel.
Read full blogImprove Your Physical Performance with Blood Flow Restriction
Have You Discovered the Benefits of Blood Flow Restriction?
If you haven’t heard of blood flow restriction yet, you should give it a shot! According to the American Physical Therapy Association,
“Blood-flow restriction training can help patients to make greater strength training gains while lifting lighter loads, thereby reducing the overall stress placed on the limb.
By applying the right amount of external pressure to an extremity, it’s possible to maintain arterial inflow while occluding venous outflow distal to the occlusion site.”
If you’ve been at the gym recently and notice someone weightlifting with bands wrapped around their biceps, they are likely trying out a new training regimen called Blood Flow Restriction Training, or BFR.
Read full blogLooking to Add More to Your Workout Routine? We’ve Got You Covered!
Spice Up Your Workouts with These Tips!
It can happen to anyone. The lingering dread, the growing disinterest, the growing tendency to skip out on your workout, to let minor inconveniences interrupt the healthy activities that you’ve had planned.
A small change in your attitude, a few excuses here and there, and before you know what’s happened it’s been weeks since your last workout.
Maybe you fight through it; you show up at the gym and you go through the motions.
Read full blogIncrease Your Physical Activity with These 7 Tips!
The longer you cope with chronic pain, the more it starts to feel like the pain will never go away. Once you start to accept a particular pain as a part of your life, it becomes more and more difficult to look at the pain as something that you can handle and treat. Instead, many people begin to turn to ways to mask the pain, which often includes the use of pain medication, but this is not always an effective strategy, and the long-term use of pain meds can lead to significant problems on its own.
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