Especially when you’re physically active and participate in sports like tennis or golf, you may develop a painful condition known as tendonitis. This term simply means inflammation and swelling of a tendon. Tendons are the thick but flexible tissues that connect a muscle to a bone or to another type of tissue. (Compare that to ligaments, which connect a bone to another bone in a joint.) Tendonitis can cause you a great deal of chronic pain. Often, tendonitis occurs as we get older, but it ... [Read More]
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Why Is Physical Therapy Important?
Physical therapy, or physiotherapy, is a branch of medicine that harnesses exercise, stretching, and other nonmedicinal therapeutic modalities to help patients restore function and mobility and to improve their physical health. Physical therapists (PTs) are specialists in physiotherapy who help patients recover after surgery and help athletes become stronger. The recovery aspect is also sometimes called physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). Physical therapy is especially important ... [Read More]
