We are often asked how soon athletes can return to sports play after injury. Learn more and review common time frames for recovery.
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Return to Fall sports with the goal to be safe and injury free with some tips from Complete Game.
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Here is a quick and easy warm up you can do before you play pickleball to help reduce the likelihood of injury and improve performance!
We answer five of the most frequently asked questions that we receive in our North Chelmsford, MA physical therapy clinic.
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Complete Game Physical Therapy is now utilizing Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) as part of the rehabilitation process for our patients. BFR is a modality that can help improve muscle strength and hypertrophy (size) in patients without excessively loading the muscle or joint.
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Here at Complete Game Physical Therapy, we are committed to helping all patients...all ages...all athletic levels.The three-generations of the family pictured above is a great example of this! We have actually treated four generations of the McGinty/ Michniewich family and each member found relief after their treatments.
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Summer sports camps are a great way for kids to work on their sports skills and stay active during the summer. Some of my fondest memories growing up were going to sports camps, meeting new kids, and working to improve my game. Every year, however, we see kids who get injured at sports camps.
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Golf is a wonderful sport enjoyed by millions around the globe. Whether you are a low handicapper or a weekend hacker nothing ruins a round of golf more than being in pain. Though golf may seem like a relatively low risk sport we see many people in the clinic every year suffering from golf related injuries.
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Baseball and softball seasons are finally getting underway. One of the common questions we get in the PT clinic, especially early in the season, is “is it normal for my arm to be sore when I throw?”
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As this challenging year comes to a close, our team here at Complete Game Physical Therapy is taking time to be thankful and celebrate the resilience of our staff and Americans as a whole. While faced with challenges, we adapted, moved forward, and continued to help our patients.
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Schedules are crazy these days. With schools moving to remote or hybrid learning, and many folks working from home, the regular 9-5 workday or typical school day is, at least for now, a thing of the past.
There is a silver lining, however. If you no longer need to commute to work or drive your children to practice, you may have more flexibility in your schedule. Why not use this time to take care of that back or neck that has been sore from increased screen time, that ankle that has been bothering you since you hurt it in college, or that shoulder pain that wakes you up at night?
The team here at Complete Game Physical Therapy is excited to announce the opening of our second location in Tewksbury on October 6. Interestingly enough...it is back at our old building that we moved from in 2018!
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The weather is hot, the gym is closed, and you've been relaxing - enjoying the lazy, hazy days of summer. Taking a day off here and there is no problem, but if you've been consistently missing your regular run, bike ride, or gym session and notice some aches and pains showing up, you might have the beginnings of deconditioning.
Here at Complete Game Physical Therapy, we post a lot about our clients who are athletes and play youth sports. While they are a portion of the people we work with, we welcome and work with all active individuals. Our Patient of the Month, Elaine, is one of those active individuals.
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With Major League Baseball starting up and youth baseball and softball in full swing, I thought it would be timely to provide a review of the resistance band exercises that have become an increasingly popular part of warm ups in baseball and softball. Unfortunately, when we treat youth athletes in our physical therapy clinic and review their band exercises with them, we often see that they are performing them improperly.
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At Complete Game Physical Therapy, we are back up and running seeing patients in our clinic. We have enhanced safety procedures and are following all the latest guidelines from the CDC and local board of health to ensure the safety of patients, families and staff. We have adjusted our schedule to help accommodate proper social distancing as well as to provide convenient appointment times for our patients.
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As restrictions start to ease, it is looking more and more likely that kids will have the opportunity to return to some form of organized sports this summer. This is certainly great news as both kids and parents are looking forward to a safe return to youth sports. As we make this transition, the need to ease athletes back into activity after a long time away from sports is crucial to help reduce the likelihood of injury.
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During the Covid-19 crisis, Complete Game Physical Therapy has been dedicated to providing expert care to our clients via telehealth virtual appointments.This benefit has served our patients well and even though we have now reopened under under the guidelines in Massachusetts Phased Reopening Plan, we continue to offer telehealth appointments to both new and established patients.
Sharing her experience with this service, we present Rochelle. We normally have a Patient of the Month and she is our first Telehealth Patient of the Month.
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