by jasonwhite | Mar 30, 2017 | General, Speech Therapy, Staff Spotlight
This week we get to hear from one of Roanoke Therapy Service’s therapists that works in a slightly different field than physical therapy. Jennifer McKnight is RTS’s exclusive Speech-Language Pathologist and helps patients with speech therapy and even...
by jasonwhite | Mar 20, 2017 | General, Physical Therapy, Staff Spotlight
One of the things we consider to be of the utmost importance for our patients is for them to know and trust our staff. They trust us with their recovery and injuries and we’d like to give back a bit and tell a few of our own stories. This week’s...
by jasonwhite | Feb 27, 2017 | ChoosePT, Exercise Therapy, General, Mobility, MoveFowardPT, Pain Management, Physical Therapy
Over the past month or so, we’ve been focusing on how physical therapy affects chronic pain. Lower back pain is one of the conditions where statistically speaking, most patients treat it with prescription opioids rather than pursue alternative therapy. In...
by jasonwhite | Feb 13, 2017 | ChoosePT, General, Mobility, MoveFowardPT, Pain Management, Physical Therapy
This month we’ve been focusing on physical therapy as an alternative to opioid use for long term pain management. MoveForwardPT’s program #choosept advocates for the use of physical therapy to reduce the risk of opioid addiction and even REGAIN movement,...
by jasonwhite | Feb 6, 2017 | General, Mobility, Pain Management, Physical Therapy
Lately we’ve been talking about how physical therapy can be a viable alternative, if not replacement, for many surgical procedures and pain management programs, among others. The facts speak for themselves, and now the recommendation of physical therapy over...
by jasonwhite | Jan 30, 2017 | General, Physical Therapy
The tendency these days is for physicians to recommend surgical procedures before any other kind of approach to muscular/skeletal injury or deformity, particularly in spinal cases. This sort of recommendation is not always a bad one; surgical practice, technology,...
