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Finding Jaw Pain Relief With Physical Therapy

Pain and discomfort in the jaw, facial area, and neck can greatly impact one's ability to go about day-to-day activities due to the distraction the discomfort causes. If you are experiencing any of this pain and discomfort, instead of letting it negatively rule your life, take control of it with precise, personalized physical therapy. Temporomandibular dysfunction, or TMD, includes disorders relating to or caused by the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), muscles, or nerves of the facial and neck re...
Posted on 2023-05-16

Tips To Stay Pain Free While Gardening

Tips To Stay Pain Free While Gardening
. For many, gardening is a therapeutic and rewarding activity. The fresh air, clean garden bed, and vibrant plants sure make for instant gratification. However, if we only focus on the end result we may end up injuring ourselves in the process. Whether it is from poor posture, overworking, a simple misstep, or a number of other things, it is possible for gardening to cause some aches and pains. In fact, it is a little more common than you'd think! Each year we see a number of patients loo...
Posted on 2023-04-27

Top Two Causes of Winter Injuries (And How To Avoid Them)

Top Two Causes of Winter Injuries (And How To Avoid Them)
  Elite Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy brings something better to physical therapy in Kansas City, and we want to not only help individual's heal from pain and injury, but also prevent it.  The winter season can be beautiful, but it can also be brutal and increase risk of injury.  The top two causes of injury we see during the winter months include slipping and falling on the ice, and various injuries from shoveling snow.  All of u...
Posted on 2021-02-10

How To Stay Injury and Pain Free While Raking Leaves

How To Stay Injury and Pain Free While Raking Leaves
It may come as a suprise to some, but getting injured while performing yard work is more common than you may think. Often times factors that lead to pain and injury includ improper form, overdoing it, and not proprerly preparing the body for the work. In today's blog we provide some tips to help keep you pain-free despite raking leaves this fall. Avoid back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, and wrist pain with this information! . SHOULD I “WARM-UP” BEFORE RAKING LEAVES? OR “CO...
Posted on 2020-10-15

Three Ways to Revamp Your Running Routine

Three Ways to Revamp Your Running Routine
All too often we have clients at Elite Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy with the goal of beginning a running routine. However, many times those people talk about how boring running can be, so they have a hard time sticking to it. Today we want to share with you three ways you can change up your running routine to not only enjoy it more, but improve your endurance without even thinking about it. 1. Find A Running Buddy. Often times individuals step into a new running routine solo, whic...
Posted on 2020-06-30
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