Exercises to Improve Balance
Balance problems arising from muscle weakness, joint instability and nerve damage can be treated with exercise.
Balance problems arising from muscle weakness, joint instability and nerve damage can be treated with exercise.
Clinical Director Hector Mayo explains how physical therapy can help restore knee function after a partial meniscectomy.
Stretching the hips and strengthening the core muscles can reduce back pain caused by a herniated disk.
While surgery is sometimes necessary, most cases of shoulder instability and weakness can be treated with physical therapy.
Core strengthening exercises can help golfers avoid back pain
Clinical Director Hector Mayo demonstrates the back limbering stretch exercise.
Strengthening the muscles that support the spine can reduce back pain caused by lumbar radiculopathy.
Hector Mayo, Clinical Director of Grand Central Physical Therapy, describes how physical therapy helps patients who have had rotator cuff repair surgery.
David Ricci, director of Grand Central Hand Therapy, discusses use of an elbow flexion extension brace to help patients regain range of motion after an elbow fracture or contracture.
Certified hand therapist David Ricci explains how patients can regain motion in the joint.
Physical therapy may include joint glides, which can help to loosen the joint and increase range of motion.