Category: Holistic Medicine Division
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Vestibular Rehab: What It Is and How You’ll Benefit
Vestibular rehabilitation is needed more often than you think. In fact, an estimated 35.4% of adults over 40 have balance impairment. As a result, an estimated 60 million doctor visits each year are due to patients who complain about dizziness. However, dizziness isn’t the only reason you might need vestibular rehab. While treating the symptom of dizziness is a quick…
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Why Vestibular Rehab is important and how it can get you to perform at a level you never imagined.
The vestibular system, and vestibular rehab, is one of the most underrated system in our body. We all take it for granted until it affects us. As a Sports Medicine Physical Therapist who has helped 1000’s of active youths to adults in Long Beach, I did not take this system seriously until I started to…
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Liver-heart-lymphatic axis. The missing piece to helping your nagging discomfort and muscle tightness.
What you may not be aware of is the connection of every organ to yourself. Today we will highlight the liver-heart-lymphatic system’s connection. As Long Beach’s only Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Physical Therapy that emphasizes healing from within, we preach that there are two ways to getting any little tension or discomfort to go away…
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How your gut works and the connection to your pain, mood, and athletic performance.
Your gut health has been linked to pain, mood, and how well you can tap into your athletic potential. If you are a grandparent that has to like to travel, take care of your grandchildren or desire to stay mobile and active, your gut health has been validated as a source of pain that feels…
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Mind and body connection: The gut-brain axis impact on pain, decisions, and emotions.
Gut and Brain are not separate. The National Institutes of Health, or NIH, in 2007 decided to start The Human Microbiome Project to help us learn more about this connection, called the gut-brain axis. President Obama realized the importance of our gut microbiome to important diseases such as Alziehmers, Parkinson’s, depression, autism, chronic pain, thyroid…
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What is Visceral Manipulation and do you need it to help your stiffness or pain?
If you desire to stay active, you will most likely deal with a sports injury, arthritis, or discomfort at some time. Whether your pain or stiffness is coming from a muscle, tendon, joint breakdown, or cartilage damage like a meniscus tear, all musculoskeletal issues require three important factors in helping your body to heal. The…
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Good and Bad Food for Thyroid (Especially if You Have Neck Pain)
If you are reading this article you probably have one of two conditions, neck pain and curious about your thyroid’s relationship to your neck and/or you have thyroid condition with neck pain. We have a Part 1 to this article called “How to tell if you have thyroid problems”, and would help you to understand why…
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5 Reasons Where Holistic Physical Therapy Can Help Regain Your Mobility
As you walk, play, and work, you are probably not thinking about how and what your body is doing to allow you to move from point A to B. We are too busy living life and doing what needs to be done for that day. You may pause or begin to pay more attention to…
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How to Tell if You Have Thyroid Problems Related With Your Neck Pain
Pain is complex. If pain was simple, our country would not be in an opioid epidemic with pain addiction being on the rise. When you add hormones to the holistic big picture, it truly makes a medical practitioner have to look at you as an individual to make the best choice for you. Our saying…