Category: Exercise & Rehab

Exercise & Rehab

Neck Hammock for Pain Relief Available on Kickstarter

Developed by a physical therapist based on the principles of cervical traction, the Neck Hammock is a portable and compact unit designed to help relieve neck pain from home, work, or anywhere.

Exercise & Rehab

Enter the Ache-Free Zone with This 8-Move Workout

Sports physical therapists Rena Eleázer, DPT, CSCS, demonstrates eight moves to help improve one's posture from working from home, in Health.

Exercise & Rehab

Purchasing Perks Up

A year after the pandemic onset, an upward trend in facility-based equipment purchases reflects confidence in the future of in-person visits, according to an analysis of a Physical Therapy Products readers' survey.

Aquatic Therapy

The Healing Environment of Water

A growing outpatient clientele embraces the weightlessness, warmth, and gentle resistance of aquatic therapy and wellness. A feature for the January 2019 issue of Physical Therapy Products by Rich Harris, MSc, CSCS, PTA, CES, CSAC, and Jose Dominguez, PT, MS, ATC.

Body Weight Support Systems

Protonics T2 Left Leg Exoskeleton Can Be Programmed for Resistance

The Protonics T2 Exoskeleton is engineered to minimize right-side dominance and to place one’s body in a balanced biomechanical state.

Cardio & Conditioning

Orthopaedic Surgeon Offers Tips to Combat Winter Sports Injuries

As the popularity of winter sports continues to rise, so do the number of skier and snowboarder injuries. In a review article, lead author and orthopaedic surgeon Brett D. Owens, MD, offers injury prevention tips.

Pilates

Perform Better’s Glute Ridge Roller Designed for Multiple Exercises

Perform Better, headquartered in West Warwick, RI, introduces the Glute Ridge Roller.

Strength

Foot Drop Treatment: Timing Is Everything

Collaboration among rehab disciplines helps pinpoint the ideal timing for multifactorial decisions about bracing. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation therapists Farris Fakhoury, PT, DPT, and Rich Klager, PT, DPT, NCS, explain the details in this Physical Therapy Products full-length feature.

Treatment Tables

Help! I Have Vertigo!

Kelsi Smith, PT, DPT, looks at vestibular rehabilitation from the patient perspective.

Fitness Apps, Home Fitness

Telehealth Exercise Program Engage-PD Shows Promise for Keeping Parkinson’s People Active

A remote coaching program, called Engage-PD, could help people with Parkinson’s disease stay physically active, even when in-person events aren’t feasible, Columbia University researchers suggest, in a study published recently in Physical Therapy.

Work Related Injuries

Workers in Pain: Employers Take a New Twist to Prevent Costly Injuries

With healthcare costs projected to rise 4.9% in 2020, many large companies are ready to try something new. They plan to spend more upfront to try to prevent higher costs later on. For conditions like chronic back pain, that means trying to prevent injuries or treat them with innovative physical therapy to avoid surgery and potentially, opioid additions, Reuters reports.