How does wearing heels affect your feet and the rest of your body?

Are you having difficulty wearing your favorite heels because of foot and knee pain?  Having low back pain when wearing heels?  Well, below is a picture of how wearing heels affects the feet and the rest of the body maybe predisposing you to getting your pain.  

We can help address some of the problems that can present with wearing high heels.  We can correct the problems, address any impairments, to help get you back to wearing the shoes you love.  Call us at 407-494-8835 or visit us at PursuitTherapy.com to schedule an appointment today!  Get back to being pain free in your favorite heels!

What is a treatment visit like at Pursuit Physical Therapy? The 1# Cash Based Clinic in Orlando, FL for One-on-One Patient Care

Have you ever been treated at a clinic and been upset that you only saw the physician for 5 minutes and you had to wait 1 hour to be seen?

How about, you look over at another patient receiving one-on-one care by a physical therapist during your treatment, and you are double booked with another patient or as you are being treated by the tech?  Asking yourself, why am I not being treated with One-on-One care?

Well, this does not happen at Pursuit Physical Therapy.  When you are scheduled for your appointment, you are seen at that time.  No waiting periods!  For example, when you arrive at 1pm for your 1pm appointment, you walk up the stairs to Pursuit Physical Therapy and your physical therapist is waiting for you in the treatment room ready to get started.  No need to wait hours to be seen and sit in a waiting room.  You don't have large waiting rooms waiting to be seen, with a huge facility with equipment and multiple treatment tables with 20+ people walking around you.  You walk into the treatment room and you see 2 chairs, 2 treatment tables, with a relaxing atmosphere (with great music being played!  as per a previous patient!), no other patients or random people, just One-on-One care as it should be.

As treatment begins, you don't need to worry about bringing you back to warm up on machines, or trying to find a treatment table as your PT is also working with someone else still.  Here it is only One-on-One care and there is always a table open for your treatment.  You and  Dr. Ron Miller, the Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Board Certified Specialist, are the only ones in the room as you receive the personalized specialist to patient treatment you deserve.  Every visit is you with the specialist! no techs and no assistants!

Have you ever been seen for 20 minutes with your PT, and then they passed you on to another person to go do exercises?  You find yourself asking, but I came to see you not your assistant?  But then the PT's, next patient is coming in already, so you can't do anything but go along with it.  Here at Pursuit Physical Therapy you have the full hour of One-on-One care so you will never be passed on the a less qualified staff.  Every visit is with a board certified specialist for the full hour.  The last several minutes of each session is spent answering any questions you may have about your treatment, your symptoms, your home exercises, etc.  So you will fully understand your pain, your diagnosis, and what is expected with your plan of treatment.

At Pursuit Physical Therapy, you should leave feeling better with less pain every session.  

Our goal is: 
1) to resolve your pain in as few visits as possible, and 
2) to prevent is from coming back!

Many patients report evening feeling pain free in as few as 2-4 visits.  Look and see what our patients are saying about us HERE.

At standard clinics, when you finish your treatment, you are leaving the facility and they ask you for your $25-50 copay, and you ask yourself  "do I have to pay this everytime?"  after they try to book you for 3x a week for 4 weeks.  Thats $300-600 in copays already and that is not even covering the actual bill.  Not to mention, it is not uncommon to receive a random medical bill 3 months after your treatment is completed, saying that you owe $500-$1000 more!  Here at Pursuit Physical Therapy, there is no copays, no worries about deductibles not being met, or any miscellaneous bills being sent to you.  You know exactly what you are paying for and how much the bill will be with your treatment.  Also, many of our patients are getting reimbursed by their insurance company or getting it applied to their deductible if it has not been met yet.

Overall, its cheaper, more cost efficient, better quality of care, getting you better and pain free in fewer visits!  Giving you the great quality of health care you deserve!  So don't settle for poor health care or just hope your pain goes away.  Call Pursuit Physical Therapy today at 407-494-8835 or visit us online at www.PursuitTherapy.com and get pain free today!

What is the Proper Way to Sit at Work?

This would NOT be the proper posture at work, but we see it everyday.  Many of my patients complain of pain at work and their job activities is one thing that increases their pain.  Those who sit at a desk for most of their day at work usually have multiple ergonomic flaws at their workplace and desk.  For most people when your workplace is ergonomically assessed, it may look like this:

Research has shown that the majority of complaints from working at a desk with poor ergonomics are:  eye strain, shoulder, back pain, arm, wrist, and neck pain.  Do you ever experience any of these while working at your desk?  We all do.  So what can we do about it?  A thorough ergonomic assessment and patient education has been shown to help reduce neck, shoulder, and back pain at a desk workplace.  An ergonomic station assessment can be done by assessing the workstation layout, task-work methods, and correct positioning of the video display and keyboard.  This would be an example of proper posture at a desk:

General guidelines:

1.  Task - Work Methods

One simple adjustment, away for the desk, is to avoid poor lifting technique and repetitive lifting.  This can predispose you to low  back pain.  Also try to avoid prolonged awkward postures, below the waist or overhead lifting, trunk twisting, and excessive reaching.

2.  Workstation Layout

Keep items on your desk within a close work station to avoid repetitive out-stretched reaching.  Below is a picture with a general layout of what your work station should look like.

3.  Video Display

Make sure the video screen is at eye level and within a close distance from your eyes.  The screen should also be directly in front of you so there is no need to constantly turn head.

4.  Keyboard and Mouse

The keyboard should be on a stable surface at the appropriate height allowing your wrist to be in a neutral position.  Elbows and forearms should not be in contact with a hard edged surface.  Your wrist position for the mouse should be in a neutral position.

5.  Chair

Your chair should have proper lumbar and spine suppport.  The arm rest should allow your shoulders and forearms to rest and aligned you wrist properly with your keyboard.  The seat height should be proper so the seat is not pushing into the back of your knees and your feet are resting on the ground.

6.  Phone

If you notice that your phone is on the right side of your desk and you constantly are experiencing right sided neck pain, this may be due to the phone.  To solve this problem many companies are going to a head set to avoid the awkward positions the telephone is causing.

Summary:

Having a workplace ergonomic assessment may help you get out of pain that your desk and work posture is causing you.  Ergonomic corrections, physical therapy, and patient education should resolve you pain.  Remember, you can get all of the treatment you want for your neck, should and back pain, but if the cause of it is never addressed, then your symptoms will continue to return.  Contact Pursuit Physical Therapy for an ergonomic assessment at 407-494-8835 and we can help you get out of pain and make sure it never returns.