What to Expect After a Total Knee Replacement
If you struggle with chronic knee pain and knee mobility, your doctor may recommend total knee replacement surgery once conservative treatment options [...]
How to Sleep After Back Surgery
If you've just undergone or are preparing to undergo back or spinal surgery, recovery will involve several steps. While your doctor will provide you w [...]
How to Sleep With a Herniated Disc
Having a herniated disc can cause slight disruptions in your sleeping patterns. The best way to manage those symptoms is to change up how you sleep to [...]
Is Walking Good for Arthritis in the Knee?
If you have arthritis in your knee, walking can be a great way to relieve pain, stiffness and swelling. Moving your legs at even a gentle pace allows [...]
What to Wear and What Not to Wear During Surgery
Your doctor has decided the best treatment for your medical condition is a surgical procedure. Preparing for surgery involves taking care of the det [...]
The Role of Medical Imaging in Physical Therapy
Therapist Blog by Joshua Johns (PT, DPT, Cert. MDT) The Role of Medical Imaging in Physical Therapy Diagnostic imaging in the form of X-ray and MRI a [...]
How to Lose Weight with Knee Pain?
Many people want to lose weight because they think they will look better if they weigh less. But dropping a few pounds can also provide significant he [...]
Types of Ambulatory Care Settings
Ambulatory care describes outpatient medical services. You do not check into a hospital to stay overnight, as you do for inpatient care. Instead, you [...]
Inpatient Surgery vs Outpatient Surgery
You may have heard the terms inpatient and outpatient surgery and wondered what the difference is between the two. Someone who has inpatient surgery i [...]
Types of Common Outpatient Surgeries
Outpatient, or ambulatory, surgeries don't require the patient to stay overnight in the hospital. Most outpatient procedures occur at an ambulatory su [...]
Everything to Know About Robot-Assisted Surgery
Robot-assisted surgery is on the rise, with more than 30% of surgeons completing their operations with at least some assistance from a robotic syste [...]
How the Coronavirus Will Change Doctor’s Visits
The COVID-19 virus has changed so many things in such a short time — one of them is doctor's visits. If you haven't visited a doctor's office since [...]