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Relieving Chronic Pain through simple stretches and exercises starts with finding the right movements for your body. In this video, I’ll show you gentle stretches and exercises to help relieve chronic pain without causing a flare-up.
Chronic pain conditions, which are sometimes diagnosed as widespread pain or fibromyalgia, usually involve widespread pain throughout the body. While movement and exercises are essential for managing chronic pain, too much intensity can sometimes make symptoms worse. That’s why it’s always important to listen to your body and go at your own pace.
This video focuses on low-impact, easy-to-follow stretches and exercises you can do at home to help relieve chronic pain. Whether you’re dealing with fibromyalgia or other forms of chronic pain, these movements are designed to help you find pain relief.
There is some new research that shows certain isometric exercises (contracting muscles without movement) can help prevent and treat high blood pressure, or hypertension. Here are some examples.
PTs will often analyze your gait by watching you get up and walk across the room, but most of the time we are analyzing your gait as soon as you walk into the clinic. If you have been diagnosed with gait abnormalities, these stretches and exercises might help.
These simple breathing exercises are great for people with COPD or for people who want to be able to hold their breath longer like swimmers or surfers. These are also great for relaxation.
When should I stretch, and what kind of stretch should I use? Dynamic or Static? This video explores how pre and post workout stretching can help prevent injuries, and the importance of knowing when to do each version of stretching.
This real-time isometrics routine for the upper body features easy exercises that can help strengthen the upper body & relieve pain. It can also help decrease tightness and improve overall flexibility.
Red light therapy's popularity is rising, and there's a lot of research that shows red light and infrared light therapy can be beneficial for many different things. In this video, I take a look at the Luxxe Flex smart red light therapy panel.
Sitting in front of a computer all day for school or work can tighten & weaken muscles in the neck, shoulders, chest, hips, knees, and feet. These sitting stretches & exercises may help.
In this video, I teamed up with Dr. Jen, a pelvic floor physical therapist who also happens to be pregnant! She'll show you her top 5 exercises to help relieve low back pain when you are pregnant by mobilizing and stabilizing the pelvis.
This full body stretching routine is great for general wellness, flexibility, and pain relief. This real-time video will give you a relaxing whole body stretch from your head down to your toes.
