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Can physical therapy before hip or knee replacement surgery improve outcomes?

Physical therapy after total hip (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is standard care for all patients. A new study, appearing in the October 1 issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery ... read more

Catholic officials named them as abusers. Now these former St. Louis clergy must face their pasts.

Athletico Physical Therapy ... number, eight are alive. Two of the eight — Vincent A. Heier, 68, and Keith M. Westrich, 64 — have been subjects of news stories in recent weeks. The Post-Dispatch found ... read more

How Sensors are Changing the Way We Deliver Physiotherapy

One of the biggest challenges is access to physiotherapy. It takes months to get ... to rehabilitation. This reduces the number of patients that make a full recovery and increases the length of time ... read more

Many Seek Care At Boston 'Tick-Borne Impairment' Clinic That Tries To Avoid Taking Sides On Lyme

On one hand, I’ve heard frustrated physicians express their disbelief in ... The Dean Center often refers patients to specialists for well-accepted rehabilitation techniques, like Hart’s physical ... read more

Joining the Opioid Battle

But at Mass General, the Rhode Island resident found the supportive environment he needed to get ... patients with other pain management methods, such as physical therapy. Similarly, UCHealth ... read more

A Frontline Medical Perspective on Workplace Hand Injuries

About one-quarter of all our body's bones are found in our hands ... but safety professionals who read incident reports in their entirety often find that punctures and avulsions get lumped into the ... read more

Home care for knee replacement patients aids in recovery

Generally, patients who received more physical therapy visits at home were able to recover better from the surgery. The optimal number of home-care visits by physical therapists was six to nine. read more

Nina Simone’s house, Mark Twain’s frogs, Hawaii’s royals: News from around our 50 states

Excel Alaska takes students as young as seventh grade and tailors sessions to fit the skills each one needs to obtain a job in his or her village, providing training through high school. Phoenix ... read more

What is the worst time of day to get sick?

Strengthening these rhythms may also enable patients to recover faster and reduce some physical ... In one study, she found that the herpes virus replicated 10 times as much of itself in mice that ... read more

The only thing crazier than what these sex addicts did is what they get at rehab

If the starry list of past clientele led Kevin ... including love avoidance and codependency. Patients get issued beepers that remind them when to go to the next round of therapy, lunch or free time. read more

Patient loses all but for the blink of an eye

Get here! I don’t know what’s going on with her ... sped to the emergency room at Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital in St. Matthews. Suddenly, an alarm on one of the monitors went off in the exam ... read more

A Painful Equation

She said it gave her enough relief to start leaving the house again and do physical therapy. But in April that changed. At her monthly appointment, her pain doctor informed her the dose was being ... read more