As our population continues to grow in the 70 and older demographic, there has a been a concurrent increase in the number of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and

A set of twin sisters, Morgan and Molly, go to their 10th high school reunion. After a few glasses of punch, they decide its time to hit the dance

I’m headed into my 17th year as a practicing physical therapist. After you’ve been around for a while, you start to notice patterns in the problems patients come to

One of the most common musculoskeletal problems that occurs in adults over the age of 30 is irritation of the rotator cuff. When the rotator cuff muscles and tendons

After some nice windows of warm weather in March and then the April cool-down, we seem to once again be slowly marching toward spring. If the transition from winter

This is a bit of a departure from the normal content of this column, in which we generally focus on problems involving the musculoskeletal system. My co-workers and I

The second sentence of this column is going to be a disclaimer on the title, because I know it’s going to ruffle some feathers, so here it goes. When

One of the more common surgical interventions for people with a certain severity of low back pain is called an intervertebral (spinal) fusion. According to the American Academy of

I’ve had several patients in the last couple of weeks tell me that although they’d really like to get started on a running program, they’re concerned about whether they

The second sentence of this column is going to be a disclaimer on the title, because I know it’s going to ruffle some feathers, so here it goes. When