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What is a Physiologist?
Physiologist are scientists with extensive training that have earned a master's degree or a doctoral degree in the science of Physiology. Physiology is a broad area of science that studies the physical actions that happen in a living system. A physiologist can study anything from single celled life forms to a grove of trees. Often, a physiologist will specialize in a certain area of expertise and then work specifically within that area.Because physiology is such a broad area of science there are
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Sep 9th 2022
What is a Chiropractor?
A chiropractor is a professional in the healthcare industry who cares for a patient's neuromusculoskeletal system (the bones, nerves, muscles, tendons, and ligaments). Specifically a chiropractor focuses on back and neck pain through the use of spinal adjustments to maintain good alignment.Self-healing is a major part of how chiropractics to treat patients. The treatment chiropractors offer also includes nutrition and exercise.By improving the neuromusculoskeletal system's ability
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Sep 8th 2022
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy (OT) is the type of treatment that helps if you have pain, injury, illness, or a disability that can make it hard for you to your job or schoolwork, care for yourself, complete household chores, more around, or take part in activities.The main purpose of OT is to teach adaptation to one's environment when considering their physical limitations. OT can help with performing any kind of tasks at school, work, or in the home. To aid in learning to perform tasks a patient may lea
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Sep 7th 2022
Physical Therapy
If your doctor says to you that you need physical therapy then you have most likely had and injury or illness that makes it hard to do day-to-day tasks.The purpose of physical therapy is to improve an individual's ability to function, move, and live better. To do this you may need to do the following:Improve movement.Relieve pain.Prevent or recover from sports injuries.Rehab after a stroke, accident, injury, or surgery.Work on balance to prevent a slip or a fall.Prevent disability.Prevent surger
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Sep 5th 2022
Plantar Fasciitis Therapy Treatments
The symptoms of plantar fasciitis are stabbing pains in the bottom of the foot close to the heal. This pain is often at its worst in the morning when taking a few steps after getting out of bed. In addition to this pain can be triggered after long periods of standing and from getting up after sitting for a long period of time. For exercise the pain may go away, but returns after exercising.The cause of plantar fasciitis is not always
clear. In normal circumstances the plantar fascia is a shock-
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Sep 20th 2019