Elbow pain is a less common condition in the physical therapy clinic, but still one that can be reduced with exercise. Elbow pain usually affects your daily activities like typing, opening jars, and gripping. However, high-level athletes can also suffer from elbow pain that limits their sport performance, especially baseball pitchers. This post focuses on 1 physical therapy exercise to reduce elbow pain and 1 exercise to avoid it in the future.

When it comes to reducing knee pain, these physical therapy exercises should be first on your to-do list. Knee pain is a common injury that affects running, walking, and daily activities like climbing stairs. But whether you’re a high level athlete or someone just wanting to go through your day without knee pain, these 4 exercises can improve knee mobility, increase strength, and reduce your knee pain. Scroll to the end to see these exercises in action!

I never get sick of this Instant Pot meal! It’s delicious, healthy, and makes cooking lunch and dinner easier for several meals (more on this later). With my busy life, cooking healthy needs to be simple and this recipe keeps it that way. If you want to watch me make it, scroll to the video. But if you want to make this Instant Pot chicken dinner for yourself, scroll to the bottom of the post to get the recipe.

My favorite part of working in physical therapy is teaching my patients how to use exercise reduce and avoid pain. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned regarding pain is that typically stretching exercises reduce pain, and strengthening exercises prevent pain. In this post I share 2 stretching exercises to help you reduce your shoulder pain and 2 strengthening exercises to help you prevent shoulder pain in the future.

Neck pain is a common complaint that brings people to physical therapy. Not only are the causes of neck pain difficult to understand, but just how to get rid of this nagging pain is even more confusing. In this post, I share 4 exercises to reduce neck pain. The biggest perk, they can all be done sitting at your desk!

Plantar fasciitis can be debilitating, but these 6 exercises can help reduce your pain and get you back to walking and running. Plantar fasciitis causes pain in the bottom of your foot. This pain sometimes wraps around your heel and up into the back of your ankle and can last for months. Today I’ll share 6 physical therapy exercises to help you get rid of this pain faster.