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

Exer Expands AI-Powered Digital Health Platform with Gait and Physio Mobile Apps

The Exer computer-vision motion platform now offers digital health apps for physical therapy, gait analysis, fitness assessments and more, according to the company.

Exercise & Rehab

3 Reasons to Improve Your Core Strength

Here's why you should pay attention to your core strength, according to Michigan Medicine.

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

Unweighting: Maximizing Use of the X, Y, and Z Axis

Specialized technologies are improving how gait patients get past their fear of falling and optimize their progress in lower extremity rehab. A feature for the August/September 2020 issue of Physical Therapy Products by Monty Merrill, MS, PT, OCS, FAAOMPT.

Cardio & Conditioning

When You’re Good, You Expand

What's the right time to open a modern PT mega-practice? When the local market gives you the signal to expand. Mike Studer, PT, MHS, NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, shares how the writing on the wall helped guide the the decision to open his practice's third facility: The RE_Building.

Pilates

New SyncThink Patent Adapts Content to User Attention

SyncThink announces the receipt of its 12th patent for its EYE-SYNC technology. US patent 14/530,598 allows SyncThing to use system and methods for creating and changing dynamic content based on eye gaze analysis.

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

Do You Think These Are Essential? Tell Us and Win!

Tell us which features you consider essential for treatment tables, lifts, and workstations. You'll qualify automatically to win a $25 Starbucks Gift Card.

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.