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After most orthopedic surgeries, you won’t be able to return to your favorite activities immediately because it can cause more injuries, frustration, and a longer healing time. To expedite your recovery after surgery, utilize individualized and goals-based physical therapy. Physical therapy helps you overcome physical restrictions and limitations after surgery...
A concussion is more than a bump to the head. It’s actually a mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) that can permanently impact your memory, mood, or cognition without the proper care. In fact, an untreated concussion can cause lasting sleep disturbances, light sensitivity, and even personality changes. While only about...
Vestibular rehabilitation is a unique form of physical therapy that targets your inner ear to treat balance disorders. Your inner ear isn’t just responsible for your ability to hear. In fact, structures within also help you maintain your balance. Your inner ear has three sections: the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule....
Women 21 years and older with a history of being sexually active need pap tests as part of routine women’s health care. The Pap test screens for cell changes on your cervix, which may indicate active cervical cancer or increased risk. While starting any type of cancer screening in your early twenties...
Every minute of every day, your heart continuously pumps oxygenated blood throughout your body. Simultaneously, deoxygenated blood removes waste and travels back to your heart. Blood pressure is a measurement that describes the force of blood against the walls of your arteries as this exchange occurs. Any time you get...
Sports injuries can occur in two ways: suddenly or over time. Injuries that happen over time occur less dramatically than acute injuries, but they can be just as harmful to the body or an individual’s long-term sports potential. Repetitive stress injuries are damage to joints, muscles, bones, nerves, or ligaments...
You’ve probably heard of the hormone insulin, but you may not fully understand what it is or how it affects your body. Because insulin plays an essential role in your health, it’s worth taking a few minutes to learn about it. Our primary care providers at Princeton Sports and Family...
The shoulder is a common location for injuries and conditions, including sports injuries, that lead to persistent pain. In fact, it impacts millions of Americans. If you have shoulder pain, knowing that many others also experience it probably won’t make you feel any better. But you can feel good knowing...
Physical therapy (PT) offers an excellent treatment option for many people. It incorporates a range of all-natural approaches designed to reduce pain, improve flexibility, build strength, increase functionality, expand range of motion, improve blood flow, and support the body’s healing process. At Princeton Sports and Family Medicine, P.C. of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, our...
Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, are fairly common, affecting hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. When you injure your ACL — a ligament in your knee — the ligament over-stretches or tears, often during athletic activity. Your ACL is located deep within the middle part of your knee....
If you’re carrying around extra pounds, you’re not alone. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 30% of adults in the United States are overweight, 42% are obese, and 9% are severely obese. Excess weight isn’t just an appearance issue. Weighing more than is healthy can contribute to a...
If you’re like most people, you take pain-free hips for granted. You walk, jog, bend, stretch, and go about your daily routine without ever thinking of your hips and hip joints. But if you start experiencing hip pain, which often originates in the hip joints, you go from taking your hips...
Upper back pain, lower back pain, neck pain, and radiating pain in your hips and buttocks can all put the brakes on your lifestyle, reducing your range of motion and leaving you uncomfortable and unable to stand up straight or rest comfortably. This can be especially challenging if you want...