physical therapy

What is Bioreasonance?Bioreasonance refers to the process of using the body's own oscillations for diagnosis and treatment.Bioreasonance is based on the principle of measuring the body's energy system using equipment, in an objective form. We utilize several Bioreasonance devices in our Naturopathic Diagnostic Laboratory. Chief among these are the Vega and the Bicom and the Vega Diagnostic System for... [read more]

What is Biofeedback?If you have ever taken your temperature you have participated in a form of biofeedback. "Bio" is a combining word form meaning "life". Feedback denotes giving back. Simplified, biofeedback means feeding back information about life responses: temperature, heart rate, brain wave activity, and/or muscle tension.Biofeedback requires intensive patient participation. The patient's goal... [read more]

(Stephanie Combs, MS, PT, NCS University of Indianapolis,Valerie Bush Merriman, OTR, SPT Krannert School of Physical Therapy)Upper extremity motor disability commonly occurs following stroke. Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CI therapy) is a novel therapeutic approach which emphasizes recovery of upper extremity movement dysfunction through intense, short-term repetitive practice. An overview of... [read more]

Introduction:Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder which causes mucus in the body to be very sticky, which can lead to chest infections and lung damage and can affect the way food is used by the body. In 1964 the average life expectancy of a baby born with CF was only 5 years, whereas today it is 31 years. The dramatic increase in life expectancy in a relatively short period of time has led to... [read more]

Introduction:Removal of limbs or parts of limbs may be necessary at any age as a result of various conditions, mostly peripheral vascular disease, but causes may include malignant disease, injury (trauma), or congenital deformity. A common reason for amputation in adults, particularly in elderly people, is gangrene of part of the lower limb as a complication of peripheral vascular disease - often associated... [read more]

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist causing symptoms like tingling, numbness, night time wakening, pain, coldness, and sometimes weakness in parts of the hand.CTS is more common in women than it is in men, and has a peak incidence around age 50 (though it can occur at any age).The lifetime risk for CTS is around 10% of the adult population... [read more]

-What is Meralgia Paresthetica?The lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh is a sensory nerve that originates in the nerve roots of the lower back (2nd and 3rd lumbar roots), and supplies sensation to the front and outside portion of the thigh. It passes through and under the inguinal ligament (which forms the groove where the leg attaches to the body at the front), and can sometimes become entrapped... [read more]

In cerebral palsy, faulty development or damage to motor areas in the brainimpair the body's ability to control movement and posture. This results in anumber of chronic neurological disorders. Cerebral palsy is usually associatedwith events that occur before or during birth, but may be acquired during thefirst few months or years of life as the result of head trauma or infection.Cerebral palsy is neither... [read more]

Charles Levy, M.D.Medical treatment for people with TM can bedivided into three phases. The first is the acute phase which might last fromdays to weeks. This phase begins when a person first falls ill. Typically, thatperson would go to a physician for help, and the medical community would try todiscover what is wrong and try to fix it. If the problem was a broken bone inthe leg, this process would... [read more]

Patient selection: Any patient with symptoms ofrespiratory disease is a candidate for rehabilitation. Programs are bestinstituted when disease is moderate so that disabling end-stage respiratoryfailure can be prevented. While patients with minimal impairment may showlittle obvious change in function, benefits are, in fact, significant.Patients with advanced lung disease also benefit. Even... [read more]