Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Reddy-Care Insight- The New York Times

The Well Blog in the August 19th edition of THE NEW YORK TIMES featured a story focusing on methods for healing hamstring and other injuries. An insightful follow-up comment, provided by Allen Eshmoili (PT,OCS) of Reddy-Care, was featured in the TIMES:

"Study after study shows that eccentric muscle strengthening (as mentioned in the article) is very effective in healing all sorts of tendinitis, from tennis elbow and rotator cuff, to achilles tendon. As a Physical Therapist at Reddy-Care Physical Therapy in Great Neck, NY we use a combination of manual therapy treatments that work well together to speed up recovery. Besides the traditional stretch and strengthen routine, we use a technique called Strain-Counterstrain which helps facilitate healing by relaxing injured and spasmed muscles in 90 seconds. The technique is pain free and usually allows the person to get out of the pain, allowing the range of motion to be restored before beginning the strengthening phase. Check it out on You Tube; It's very cool!

By the way,tendonitis is a misnomer. Studies show that there really is no inflammatory process in the tissue ("itis"), but there is degeneration, therefore the term should be tendinosis. As a matter of fact, stubborn/chronic cases are best reated with surgical removal of the degenerated tissue, after traditional rehab has failed. So it's best to seek a physical therapist as soon as symptoms appear, rather than wait-and-see."

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