If exercise were a drug, it would be the most widely prescribed and most effective medication ever invented. I’ve been in the medical and health/fitness industry for a long time. It’s really hard to motivate people to exercise even when they know they really should. I think the biggest impact I can have as a…
Less Visits, Better Results, & More Money in Your Pocket! 98% percentile in low back pain outcomes and 94% percentile in orthopedic outcomes. What would you do with $309 dollars in your pocket? As promised in a previous post, Metropolitan Physical Therapy was going to capture our outcomes in care and publish those results. We…
Persistent low back pain is complicated and difficult. One of the most common clinical findings I see with persistent low back pain is an undiagnosed leg length discrepancy (LLD). Basically, one leg is longer, either structurally or functionally, and produces strain in the low back that is bothersome in standing and walking activities. It’s usually…
How can you tell if you are winning or losing if you don’t know the score of the game? Metropolitan Physical Therapy is pleased and excited to be using FOTO to hold ourselves accountable to achieving the best outcomes for our customers. We want to make sure you get a win. It’s one thing…
I think one of the confusing aspects of conservative, exercise based programs for low back pain is there are a lot of opinions out there about what you should be strengthening and how you should be doing it. There is Yoga, Pilates, Functional Movement Assessments, Flexion programs, and Extension programs just to name a few.…
If you have acute low back pain, here is nice list of things you can start doing right away to get moving better and on the road to recovery. Get moving! Bed rest is only recommended about 24-48 hours. Being able to move or walk, even just for a little while, helps your body heal. …
Dry Needling quite the sexy modality as of late, especially here in Colorado. For those of you that don’t know what dry needling is, it involves placing needles in the “trigger points” of the muscles with the goal of decreasing pain. Historically, there has been very little concrete data to support the use of dry…
Have you figured it out yet? Is it like a Dan Brown novel kinda thing, or like a backward message in a Led Zeppelin song? When I started my business, I wanted to be a little different. Like my business tag line, being “innovative”, “modern”, and “elegant” was something that would be important in developing…
Note: this is a follow up post about my right knee, which I hurt in 2016. For the previous post, please click here So, at this point, it’s been 10 months since I tore my medial meniscus, or at the very least, irritated the hell out of it. And I have to say, I’m just…
With the new election and another debate about our healthcare system, I think it is difficult for patients to understand how all the pieces fit together. It is difficult to see how overstated political rhetoric trickles down to nuts and bolts, day to day operations. Prior to Obamacare, the national trend was higher co-pays for…
