Desert Springs Physical Therapy - Silver City, NM

Physical Therapy & Your Insurance: A Patient’s Guide to Getting the Best Coverage

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:29:12 +0000

The best way to take care of your health is to take an active role in your own health care. To do this, you need to know about your options and your rights as a patient. Patients across the country are becoming better educated and demanding more and better options from their [...]

Understanding Reimbursement for Physical Therapy

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:27:41 +0000

Physical therapists are professional health care providers who are licensed by the state in which they practice. You can check with your state agency overseeing physical therapy licensure to make sure that your physical therapist is licensed and in good standing. You can also contact the state Physical [...]

New Advice for Surgery on the Knees

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:14:52 +0000

FOR years, people with worn-out knees were told to wait as long as possible before opting for replacement. Wait until you are older, the thinking went, so the joint will outlive you. But medical experts say doctors and patients are pushing the limits of their old joints too far. Improvements in artificial joint technology and surgical [...]

Life With More Balance

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:13:18 +0000

Exercises that build strength and flexibility can help minimize the debilitating spills that come from advanced age. THOUGH THE wisdom that comes with age can help navigate metaphorical bumps in the road of life, actual, physical obstacles can cause stumbles and falls. Increasingly, to combat a natural loss of balance that comes with the passing years, many [...]

Standing Up for Shoes That Give Your Feet a Hand

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:08:50 +0000

It was near the end of ” Sex and the City,” after the starlets had worn high heels in the snow, at the pool, to the beach, in the rain (is this sounding like Dr. Seuss?) and, of course, to bed. It was after the one who got pregnant went jogging and we were not [...]

Knee replacement patients take care – rising incorrectly can cause future injury

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:05:04 +0000

PEOPLE WHO undergo total knee replacements often adopt a forward-bending way of going from sitting to standing, a new study has found. This motion can increase the strain on the non-injured leg and possibly set patients up for future injuries. To prevent this from happening, physical therapy after surgery — aimed at retraining this action — [...]

Golf Can Be a Painful Pursuit

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:53:35 +0000

Tiger Woods will be conspicuous in his absence from this week’s field and from the remainder of this season’s PGA Tour schedule, but Woods’s health issues have substantiated an often snidely dismissed truth: Swinging a golf club can be dangerous. With powerful swings generating significant stress and torque on various body parts, many elite golfers often [...]

A Quirky Athletic Tape Gets Its Olympic Moment

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:43:20 +0000

Watching Olympian Kerri Walsh compete in beach volleyball in the recent Olympics, many viewers were wondering the same thing: what is that black thing on her shoulder? A tattoo? A bizarre fashion statement? No. Ms. Walsh was sporting a new type of athletic tape called Kinesio, touted by physical therapists as a better way to relieve [...]

Study: Physical Therapy as Effective as Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

Randy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:35:34 +0000

New England Journal of Medicine Study Questions Value of Knee Surgery A new study questioning the usefulness of arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee should encourage patients to consider physical therapy as an effective non-surgical option, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). The study was published in the September 11 issue of the [...]

Erickson Makes The Transition To coach

Randy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:56:51 +0000

Making the transition from runner to coach, Pamela Erickson will assist Western New Mexico University head cross country coach Macario Campos for the upcoming season. “Pam was a great athlete these past two years for us,” Campos said. “Her energy and enthusiasm for the sport is a great asset to our program.” Erickson was one of [...]