by Melanie Herron | Jan 24, 2020 | Active Lifestyle, Aging, Arthritis, Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Fitness, Injury Prevention, Staying Healthy
Getting older has its perks, and it has some downsides. For aging athletes or anyone who enjoys being active, time can have a way of dampening the fun. Slowing down is part of aging, but for many Central Oregonians, slowing down or, ahem, stopping isn’t an option. ...
by Melanie Herron | Dec 5, 2019 | Active Lifestyle, Aging, Arthritis, Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Hip, Knee Pain, Overuse Injury, Pelvic Pain, Spine Care
Many people come to physical therapy thinking one thing is wrong, only to discover the cause of their pain is something entirely different. When Missy began lower extremity physical therapy for her knees, she thought running was the culprit. “I continuously heard...
by Melanie Herron | Nov 7, 2019 | Aging, Arthritis, Injury Prevention, Knee Pain
Putting a band-aid on pain is always a temporary fix. Unless that band-aid becomes an addiction. The practice of medicine is continuously evolving as we learn to more appropriately manage health disorders. As a society, we have become increasingly aware of the...
by Melanie Herron | Oct 8, 2019 | Active Lifestyle, Arthritis, Staying Healthy
Physical therapy goes well beyond the treatment of musculoskeletal ailments. “Physical therapy is a discipline that successfully treats many types of ailments,” said Barrett Ford, PT. “A physical therapist’s scope of practice can range from cardiopulmonary and...
by Melanie Herron | Aug 28, 2019 | Active Lifestyle, Aging, Arthritis, Injury Prevention, Knee Pain
We hear it all the time. We may even say it or believe it ourselves. The myth that running is bad for the knees. But let’s think about that. If running was bad for the knees and caused knee arthritis, why doesn’t everyone who runs have a problem? Why can some people...
by Melanie Herron | May 28, 2019 | Active Lifestyle, Aging, Arthritis, Hip, Knee Pain, Staying Healthy, Women's Health
When we think of bones, we don’t imagine them to look like a sponge, filled with pores. But for the more than three million people diagnosed with osteoporosis each year, that is exactly how their bones look. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation,...
