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Wyckoff Physical Therapy tips to improve your osteoarthritis condition

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Wyckoff Physical Therapy tips to improve your osteoarthritis condition

4 Ways To Improve Your Osteoarthritis Condition With Physical Therapy

The normal and the regular activities that you do in your daily life gets a serious hit if you are suffering from osteoarthritis (OA). You will find it very difficult to walk, climb stairs, stand for a long time, ride a bike, or play with your children or grandchildren with this condition. It causes pain in the joints that limits you to do work and activities. The condition can get really bad and this can stop you from doing all the things that you love to do in life. So, before we move forward in knowing how to deal with osteoarthritis, we need to know what it is and what its symptoms are.
What is osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is a common disease seen in aged women and men. It is a disease that will affect the articular cartilage or the tissue that covers the end of the bones of anybody joints. This condition can also cause issues in bones, joint capsules, ligaments and the muscles that are around the joint. Therefore, the person with OA suffers a lot of pain and discomfort that causes hindrance in their normal day to day activities. It is not possible to correct this problem with the invasive procedure as many things are involved. Hence, one of the best possible solutions is to undergo physical therapy. There is no way it can cure osteoarthritis, but it will help in reducing the pain and the symptoms that cause this condition.

How physical therapy helps reduce osteoarthritis?

  1. Improves the overall functional mobility of the body

One of the best ways to increase the strength or the range of motion of a certain joint is to stretch the joint in the adjacent area. This will help in boosting the functional mobility. For example, if you have OA pain in the lower back that limits you from looking over your shoulder, then try improving the range of motion around your hip area. This will compensate the lower back area’s lack of motion and increase the overall functionality.

  1. Boost to the range of motion

The physical therapist can suggest some of the appropriate stretching exercises that you can do to target a certain area that is causing pain and limiting the range of motion. This will help in improving the motion in that area and also reducing some pain. There are special techniques to treat stiff joints in certain areas that will make the bone joint to slide and glide through every movement to reduce pain further.

  1. Improves the surrounding muscles strength

Apart from the pain and the limitation of the range of motion, the surrounding muscles around the affected area also weaken. The physical therapist will help you perform certain techniques and stretches that will target the surrounding muscles gently. This will help in stabilizing the joint and also reducing the pain that it suffers.

  1. Improves biomechanical advantage

Your physical therapist in Wyckoff will treat the body as a whole and not as interconnected parts. They will study the entire body and its movement and the problem areas before offering the right exercises and treatments through simple movement and posture techniques to reduce the pain in the affected areas.
Call Apex Orthopedic Rehabilitation today and come in for a free physical therapy session and get on the road to optimum health and wellness!

Tom Willemann

Tom Willemann

Tom Willemann is a premier physical therapist based out of Bergen County, New Jersey. He holds an MS in physical therapy from the University of Miami, is credentialed in the world-renowned McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT), and holds an OCS (Orthopedic Clinical Specialist) certification. As of 2018, there are approximately 14,000 ABPTS certified specialists in the nation and less than 400 of them are located in the state of New Jersey. Tom is the owner and director of Apex Orthopedic Rehabilitation in Paramus. He opened the clinic, which specializes in spine and sports injury prevention, in 2004 after many years of experience in the field. Tom’s caring interest in others and his strong belief in continuity of care, combined with his clinic’s ability to find solutions for the most difficult orthopedic problems, have earned Apex Orthopedic Rehabilitation its excellent reputation with patients and medical professionals in northeastern New Jersey and beyond. A true “family man,” Tom takes pride in his clinic’s warm and welcoming environment.
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