ELITE Physical Therapy

19/01/2025

13/01/2025

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31/08/2024

27/09/2022

Beautiful! ❤️

17/11/2021

BREAKING: The Universidad de Manila has been granted by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to conduct face-to-face classes for Nursing and Physical Therapy classes effective November 2021.

Full details to follow.

20/10/2021

Fun
The problem with chiropractors

20/10/2021

On point.

11/10/2021

Fun fact

Joe Rogan discusses the problems with going to chiropractors with Yvette d'Entremont.Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #984.

08/07/2021

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

I have shared this post in the past, but a number of people had questions about disc resorption. While spontaneous resorption does not always happen, the overall incidence was found to be 66.66%, which is a pretty decent amount.

The images in this post are from a case report from the New England Journal of Medicine (see reference) that documents the spontaneous resorption of a disc herniation without surgery.

Case Study: A 29-year-old woman presented to the spine clinic with new-onset pain in her right leg, accompanied by paresthesia. MRI of the lumbar spine revealed a lumbar disc herniation resulting in substantial spinal stenosis and nerve-root compression (first image).

She elected conservative treatment with physical therapy and an epidural injection of glucocorticoids. A second MRI obtained at follow-up 5 months after presentation showed resolution of the herniation (second image). Her clinical symptoms resolved, and she was discharged from the clinic.

The details of this individual’s rehab were not given in the case study, but it is important to know that relatively simple programs that include movements like walking, general low back mobility drills and low-load resistance training exercises help the majority of people.

References: Hong J and Ball PA. Resolution of Lumbar Disk Herniation without Surgery. N Engl J Med. 2016.
Zhong M, et al. Incidence of Spontaneous Resorption of Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Meta-Analysis. Pain Physician. 2017.
Chiu C, et al. The probability of spontaneous regression of lumbar herniated disc: a systematic review. Clin Rehabil. 2015.

13/11/2020

Physical therapy at it's best

07/07/2020

Physical therapy at its best 👌