Pickleball Pains?

Pickleball Pains?

By: Dr. Anna Kuljian, PT, DPT PICKLES YOU SAY? Pickleball has been around since 1965 but its popularity has heated up the courts this year. Pickleball is a fusion of tennis, ping pong, and badminton. It uses lightweight wooden paddles, a perforated plastic ball with a...
Tips to Prevent Winter Sport Activity Injuries

Tips to Prevent Winter Sport Activity Injuries

By: Dr. Andre Benzer, PT, DPT, CSCS The winter can be a tough time of year to deal with considering colder temperatures, less daylight hours, more work anxiety and other factors. However, it is also a time of year in which many choose to brighten up their weekends...
DRA and Physical Therapy

DRA and Physical Therapy

—– DR. RILEY OOTTON, PT, DPT, MS What is Diastasis Recti Abdominus (DRA)? DRA is defined as increased laxity and widening of the Linea Alba. This leads to a separation between the two halves of the Rectus Abdominus muscle. This widening can occur anywhere...

New Year: New Wellness – Prehabilitation

Many people approach the New Year as a time to make resolutions.  Stop smoking, start going to the gym, eat better.  But the most important resolution you can make is to find wellness. Many injuries aren’t from accidents or a “mechanism of injury”, but are instead...

Cold Laser Therapy: What is it? Can it help me?

At Spring Forward Physical Therapy, we offer Cold Laser Therapy (also known as LLLT, low-level light therapy) as well as traditional physical therapy modalities such as Ultrasound and Electrical Stimulation.  However, we have found Cold Laser’s usage increasing as our...