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Posts Tagged health

Physical Therapy Comes Home

April 22, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
New Study Shows In-home PT Just as Effective as In-patient For knee replacement patients itching to get back home quickly, new research is providing a great prognosis: people who choose at-home physical therapy instead of in-patient rehabilitation after knee replacement surgery do just as well when it comes to complications, long-term pain management and movement […]

ACL Injury Prevention: Crucial New Research Could Keep More Players in the Game

April 7, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
It’s an agonizing, yet all too common scene on Monday Night (or Monday afternoon,  if you live in Hawaii): a wide receiver, crumpled on the turf, clutching his knee, writhing in pain. Injury to the ACL, or Anterior Cruciate Ligament, is one of the most common sidelining injuries for professional football players. According to a […]

Amputee controls two prosthetic limbs by thinking. Wait, what?

March 9, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Les Baugh was able to use prosthetic arms by simply thinking about it. A Colorado man became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL). Les Baugh was able to operate the system by simply thinking about moving his limbs. […]

Motorized Stationary Bike May Help With Stroke Rehabilitation

March 2, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
It seems that exercising on a motorized stationary bike may help boost stroke patients’ brain and motor skills recovery. The study included 17 stroke survivors, all who took part in repetitive task therapy, such as relearning how to hold a cup or fork, or how to dress themselves. All patients did 24 exercise sessions over […]

Kill All Pain!

February 13, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
A Clinical Pearl by Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD, CSMT There is a wonderful article from Medbridge (medbridge.com) regarding a refreshing pain management strategy. “We know now: pain is a lot more complex and warrants a more comprehensive approach to make meaningful changes in our patients.” “The day I found out that pain is a normal […]

Do you have diabetes? Are you sure?

February 4, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
8 Million Americans Don’t Know They Have Diabetes A quarter of those in United States living with diabetes do not know they have it. This fun fact courtesy of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yup, an estimated 29.1 million people (almost 10% of the population) in the US have diabetes, but […]

Most MS Patients Who Received Stem Cell Transplants Still in Remission Years Later

January 21, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Hope for MS sufferers. A phase 2 study of 24 volunteers has demonstrated impressive results by rebuilding the immune system using a patient’s own stem cells. Researchers found that more than 86 percent of the patients remained relapse free after three years, and nearly 91 percent showed no sign of disease progression. Most of the […]

Running Shoe Myths

January 12, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Gimmicks aside, we can help our patients run faster and prevent injury, there’s just not a magical cure-all shoe to help do it. We would recommend plyometrics drills like box jumps, and spending more time in the weight room to become a stronger and more injury-free runner. Myth #1: Running Shoes Prevent Injury Myth #2: […]

10 Ways to Increase Insulin Sensitivity for Better Fat Loss

January 6, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
If you impair your body’s ability to efficiently store glucose, and you’ll be fighting an uphill battle against fat loss. You see, insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism are directly correlated to your body composition. So with that being said, here are 10 ways you can increase insulin sensitivity and make it easier to change your […]

America: A Nation of Couch Potatoes

December 29, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
In a new study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers found that the average person is getting less than two minutes of activity per day.That’s right. 2 minutes. From the blog Live Better at EXOS (http://www.coreperformance.com) comes some grotesque numbers about how inactive Americans actually are. Data was captured from 2,600 people to see how […]
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