 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Were you diagnosed with hip arthritis and you still wanna run? This is a great video for you. We're gonna talk about Luke and how Luke was given a diagnosis of hip arthritis, but his doctors told him that not only should he stop running now, but he was gonna need a hip replacement in the near future. And that is not happening as of right now. So we're gonna talk about the things that make hip arthritis happen. What makes it better? What makes it worse and how you have a lot more control than maybe the last doctor visit, let you believe. So let's get started. So Luke had been running his whole life. He was in his fifties. That was his thing. All runners we just like to run, everything else is just filler space.
So even though Luke liked to, he did go to the gym once in a while to lift weights and practice lunges and squats and things. He was running four to five days a week. And he'd been doing that for years. As an avid runner, he knew that he needed to keep up his overall physicality. So he was getting weekly massages, he was doing a lot of the things that he knew he needed to do, because of course he doesn't like to stretch, hence the massages. So he was doing a lot of the things that he absolutely thought he should be. He was still lifting weights. He was getting massages, but over time, his right hip really started to bother him. It wasn't just, you know, at the end of the run, in fact, he kept running because it would ache in the morning.
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 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If you have just rolled or have ever rolled your ankle doing an aerobics class, like one of those fitness classes at the gym, this is a perfect video for you. In this video, I'm gonna talk about Martha and her journey after she rolled her ankle. We're gonna talk about why it is not as easy as it seems like it should be to recover from rolling your ankle and how to make sure you recover fully. That way you can get back to all the things that you love without that sense that your ankle is just not strong. So let's get into the story about Martha.
Martha did not actually like working out, not at all. She was completely against it. Until she got into her forties, when she realized that it was harder for her to lose weight and her knee pain was so bad that she knew she needed to do something to help herself out. This was getting right past COVID. She wasn't really interested in going places, but she knew that she couldn't do it on her own. She knew that she needed help to stay motivated and to even know what to do. She found a small gym, so she felt much more comfortable in relation to COVID and just being around a bunch of people. In that small gym, they had aerobics classes and she was thinking that this was a great idea, because now she doesn't have to know how to work any of the equipment. She didn't have to feel self-conscious, there's other people there. So she thought that that would just be a very easy transition for her into this thing that she didn't really want to do anyway.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If sciatica is taking the joy out of your weekend cycling, this is the video for you. So I met Aaron about, I don't know, six to eight months ago, something to that effect. He had been suffering from sciatic pain for months. He had pain If he sat for too long, he was getting residual pain, even if he took too long of a walk. It was going from his butt all the way down his leg at some points and so he had been dealing with that for a long time. He was like, it was relatively minor and I could get into positions and it just went away. It was fine and it didn't interrupt me going for bike rides on the weekend. Which was his main thing. That's his main source of entertainment and how he hung out with friends, see Aaron would get on his bike and ride 30 or so miles.
Their goal would be to hit some bar that had a patio so they could hang out, drink, have lunch, and then they would ride back. That was basically their entire Saturday, him and his friends. And so that was something that he habitually did and he really, really enjoyed it. So his back pain bothering him at work, didn't really affect his bike riding. He sort of ignored it and put it on the back burner assumed it would get better eventually and just was ignoring it.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If your shoulder impingement is stopping you from kayaking, this is the right video for you in this video. I'm gonna talk about how my client, Penny overcame her shoulder impingement and got back to kayaking so much faster than she thought she would after months and months of dealing with doctor's offices and not feeling like she was getting anywhere and she didn't have to have surgery and she didn't need any medication to get there. So let's get started!
Kayaking. So Penny was telling me that she and her family just love outdoor adventures. So she's a mom with three boys and her husband loves, loves, loves to go camping and do all these outdoor recreational things. And so one weekend they put the kayaks on the car and they went down to one of the little lakes around here.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. If you are a runner who is trying to avoid having a total knee replacement, this video is for you. I work with a lot of active adults. And one common thing, especially with runners, is that they get knee pain. And when they go to the doctor, oftentimes they're told “come back when the knee pain gets so bad that you're willing to have a joint replacement.” And for some people, they believe that they walk out of that meeting believing that that is the only thing that is available to them.
I'm creating this video, so that I can give you a new option. Something that is beyond just waiting for your knee to be replaced, just waiting for that pain to keep progressing. Something other than waiting and just taking anti-inflammatories, having several rounds of steroid injections, cortisone shots, thinking about going in for stem cells and all these other steps you go through. They're not major medical procedures, but they're rather expensive and they're time consuming. Oftentimes it leaves people with very minimal pain reduction and ultimately it doesn't help you get back to running.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. This is national posture month, and I'm very excited and all month I've been celebrating this with, by talking about how posture affects specific sports. So this week I thought I would highlight boxing and I figured I would do that because a lot of people think of boxing and they think of boxers that have really rounded shoulders and very bad posture. And I don't believe that that is always true, and I actually think it would be detrimental to their sport. So that brings me to the topics we're gonna cover.
So first I'm gonna define posture, and then I'm going to talk about all the forces that your posture takes on during your sport. So in this case, we're gonna talk about boxing. And then third, I'm gonna talk about the types of injuries that you may be seeing if your posture is not as stable as you need it to be, or in the right position that you need it to be.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. This is National Upright Posture month. It's very exciting, I love talking about posture. So this month I have been doing a series on how your posture can be affecting your sport. This week, we're gonna highlight biking. So biking is amazing. I like to bike around the neighborhood with my son, my daughter and my husband. We have a good time finding the Bayou trails around our house, but normally you don't have too much discomfort other than possibly something that happens from the seat from just tooling around your neighborhood. It does happen, but I'd say that more often than not. I get complaints of discomfort from people when they're doing miles on their bike weekly.
I thought I would talk about that. So in this video we're gonna define posture so that we're all talking about the same thing. Then I'm gonna talk about the different forces that your posture takes on and help you combat while you're biking. Then I'm gonna talk about what happens if your posture is not able to sustain the forces that we were just talking about, but because I never end on a bad note, we are gonna talk about how you move past, prevent and recover from all of those injuries.  Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. May is posture awareness month, and to that end, I am doing a series on how posture affects different sports. In this week's Video, I'm gonna go over how posture affects swimming. So specifically I'm going to define posture just in a general sense, then explain how that directly relates to swimming mechanics. I'm gonna talk about injuries that can come when posture's not ideal and then how to resolve those things.
So let's get started. What is posture? In the way that I'm using it, just because there's always more than one way to look at something, so the way that I'm gonna use it is how you hold your spine, how you hold your torso upright and what position that's in. And what do I mean by that?  Have you ever been curious if your posture affects your ability to run or how well you can run, how fast you can run, or maybe you've been curious if your posture is causing some form of joint pain. These are some of the things that I wanna answer in this video, my name is Dr. Molly, and I'm with your Goals Physical Therapy. This is national posture month, I am super excited, and I thought I would do an entire series on how posture can affect different sports.
In this video, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk about what posture is, how it directly relates to each individual sport. This week I'm gonna talk about how posture affects running and then some common injury, just to see if you're on the right path. If you're dealing with something yourself, and maybe you have questions about what's going on with you. I'm gonna give two examples of things that can be tied into your posture, like running injuries that can be tied into your posture, and then what you do about that, because why talk about it unless we can come up with a solution to the problem.  Have you ever just accidentally reached back for something super fast and ended up pinching something in your shoulder, the sudden pain comes down your arm and it's just shocking. And it makes you pause for a few minutes and then check, okay I can move my arm all right, Everything seems to be okay, but there's just a mild ache that kind of residual but it's not bad, It's just sort of noticeable. And you're like, okay, I think that's just gonna go away. That is exactly what happened to Erica.
So several months ago, Erica was in her kitchen and she reach down for something in her bottom cabinets, Right? She knows that she should squat all the way down and then reach in because it's kind of a low shelf and you know, but she's in a hurry. So she just bent down really quickly and reached back for something and felt that sharp pain that just takes your breath for a second and then you're checking your body, Just to make sure everything is okay. Well she was able to move her arm and she's able to keep doing what she was doing in the kitchen. So she assumed, all right, it's just annoyed for right now, It'll get better. And she kind of went with that thought process for a week now, or two. |
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