by Ralph Havens | May 26, 2008 | Health and Wellness, Integrative Manual Therapy, Physical Therapy
Some interesting questions come up when we use Integrative Manual Therapy to help our patients. Most times people just want to get rid of their pain and get on with their life; doing the things they had been unable to do or were limited in doing, due to pain and...
by Ralph Havens | May 23, 2008 | chronic pain, Fish Oil, Health, Health and Wellness, inflammation, Joint Pain, NSADs, Nutrition and Diets, Physical Therapy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Supplements
by: Sally Skurdahl, MPT Most people have heard the term “inflammation” and associate this phenomenon with pain and injury. Inflammation is the human body’s reaction to injury or infection. This involves an influx of chemicals/ specific cells to the... by Ralph Havens | May 7, 2008 | back pain, chronic pain, Health, Health and Wellness, Integrative Manual Therapy, knee pain, Nutrition and Diets, Physical Therapy
With a diagnosis of knee pain there are many things to consider. I?m going to go over some of the more basic things first and expand from there to a more detailed and whole-body assessment in looking at the knee. One of the basic ideas in physical therapy in general... by Ralph Havens | May 2, 2008 | chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Health, Health and Wellness, Integrative Manual Therapy, Nutrition and Diets, Physical Therapy
Over the 22 years I have been treating people with chronic pain, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon. About 2 years ago I noticed an alarming trend. More and more of our patients were showing signs of gluten sensitivity. Where as in the past some people needed to...
by Ralph Havens | May 1, 2008 | back pain, chronic pain, headaches, Health and Wellness, Integrative Manual Therapy, neck pain, Physical Therapy, shoulder pain
As a PT I have been finding more and more that almost every patient I treat has some dysfunction in his or her pelvis. Whether the symptom is headaches, back pain, or shoulder pain, I always look at the pelvis and more often than not find that the pelvis is out of... by Ralph Havens | Apr 23, 2008 | chronic pain, fibromyalgia, Health and Wellness, Integrative Manual Therapy, Nutrition and Diets, Physical Therapy
It is my thought that we have a tendency to live life fast. We constantly drive ourselves harder and harder then wonder why we break. If you don’t service a car every so often – get an oil change or tune up, what happens to the car. The body is no...
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