Miller Physical Therapy - Our Healthy Living (Thriving!) Blog
If you have low back pain or sciatica, you may benefit from working with a physical therapist to help you manage your condition. Here at Miller-PT, we can help you decrease your pain and improve your mobility with specific therapeutic exercises and postural correction. We offer preventive care and personalized programs to keep you healthy and moving.
There's no prescription needed to see a PT in Florida, but if you'd like us to work closely on your progress with your doctor, we are h...
Posted on 2020-10-26
Incorporating a healthy diet into your lifestyle is a good move regardless of who you are, how old you are, or what you do. Good nutrition is absolutely crucial, however, if you're recovering from injury, surgery, chronic condition, or other ailments. Your body needs all the help it can get when it's trying to heal itself.
Did you know that we offer nutrition services as part of our programs? We recognize that to get you to optimal health we need to cover all the bases.&nbs...
Posted on 2020-09-24
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only half of adults get the exercise they need.
“I believe, as a lot do, that physical inactivity is the major public health problem of our time,” says Sallis.
Sallis is co-director of The Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at Kaiser Permanente in Fontana, CA, clinical professor of family medicine at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, and chair of Exercise is Medicine Health Advisory Boa...
Posted on 2020-08-31
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sales of prescription opioids have quadrupled in the United States, even though "there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans report."
In response to a growing opioid epidemic, the CDC released opioid prescription guidelines in March 2016. The guidelines recognize that prescription opioids are appropriate in certain cases, including cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care, a...
Posted on 2020-07-30
Recent research indicates that physical therapy can produce the same outcome as surgery for a torn meniscus in your knee.There is a good chance you will regain normal, pain-free mobility with physical therapy and without the need for surgery. Physical therapy should be the first choice when managing the pain and functional limitation that may come with a knee meniscus tear.We can help you regain normal motion and strength and help you return to your previous le...
Posted on 2020-06-19
