LIPODEMA

Posted on December 9, 2013December 23, 2015 by Katrin Moffett

Word of the day: LIPODEMA
a genetic condition usually found in women, where fat is abnormally stored on the limbs, most often the legs, but not the hands and feet. This fat is a different type of fat, and will not reduce with weight loss.
Learn more about it here: http://www.lymphedemapeople.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lipedema

5 SPEEDY WAYS TO PERFORM MYOFASCIAL RELEASE ON THE TIGHTEST PARTS OF YOUR BODY

This is a great article, but keep 2 things in mind. 1. fascia is not 2-dimensional as alluded to in the article. It is 3-D and encompasses every organ, cavity, muscle, and cell. Think of an orange. That white stuff,that is sometimes fluffy and sometimes stringy, is a lot like fascia. It lines the skin, […]

4 Ways Physical Therapists Manage Pain

Here is an excellent article about PT and pain, written by Joseph Brence, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT, COMT, DAC, for the American Physical Therapy Association’s Choose PT campaign. These are things that any PT can do, but a clinic like ours, that specializes in treating chronic pain, is especially adept at managing your symptoms. Click on the image […]

Here is a short article to help you get started on exercising. It is always a good idea to work with an exercise specialist, like your physical therapist, before embarking on a new exercise program. This is especially true as we age or develop chronic conditions that need to be worked around. 62 Degrees PT […]

The FDA is finally updating its decades-old mammogram standards

This article by Nicole Wetsman was posted in Popular Science on March 29, 2019. For details, click on the image below.

New treatment method emerges for Alzheimer’s

Scientists have found way to penetrate the blood-brain barrier in a patient. This development may lead to new, increasingly effective ways to treat Alzheimer’s. https://bit.ly/2SgPp6J

The FDA is investigating ‘potentially unsafe’ topical drugs sold at Dollar Tree.

Speak to your pharmacist if you have concerns.

Happy Holidays from 62 Degrees PT and the Myofascial Release Center

Meet Rozalyn. She is the latest medical specialties student to earn her degree by completing her externship at our clinic. Today is her last day with us, but we plan to stay in touch. She is the most efficient office assistant we have had, since our inception 6 years ago. We are currently scheduling for […]

The Mental Tricks of Athletic Endurance

For the Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdič, the unlikely key to Olympic glory was misdiagnosis. While warming up for her first race at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Ms. Majdič skidded off an icy corner and fell more than 10 feet into a rocky creek bed. She dragged herself to an on-site medical tent […]

The future is here!

Case report: Stem cells a step toward improving motor, sensory function after spinal cord injury

International Human Rights Day is December 10th

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a milestone document proclaiming the inalienable rights which everyone is inherently entitled to as a human being regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national […]

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