Excelarate Physical Therapy

07/31/2025

Injury? Don’t just RICE it anymore! 🚨

For years, the go-to advice for managing acute injuries like sprains and strains was RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. While this approach made sense at the time, newer research shows it may not be the best way to support long-term recovery.

👉 Enter the updated, evidence-based approach: PEACE & LOVE

PEACE (for the acute phase – right after injury):
• Protect: Avoid movements that increase pain for the first few days
• Elevate: Raise the injured area above heart level
• Avoid anti-inflammatories: These may slow healing by interfering with natural inflammation
• Compress: Use appropriate support to manage swelling
• Educate: Empower patients to understand their injury and healing process

LOVE (for the subacute and chronic phase – a few days after injury and beyond):
• Load: Gradually reintroduce movement to promote tissue repair
• Optimism: Positive mindset supports better outcomes
• Vascularization: Get moving with pain-free cardio to improve circulation
• Exercise: Tailored rehab to build strength, mobility, and function

💡Why the change?
We now know that too much rest and icing can actually delay healing. Inflammation is part of the body’s natural repair process, and gentle movement helps tissues recover stronger and faster.

At Excelarate Physical Therapy, we stay up-to-date with the latest science so you get the best possible care from day one. Questions about an injury? We’re here to help.

07/15/2025

We are so thankful for all of your support as we’ve transitioned to our new facility, and to meet the growing needs are now looking for another physical therapist to join our team.

See pictures attached for more information about the role and how to contact us. Help us spread the word if you know any great PT’s out there looking for a new role.

06/05/2025

Check out our news article about falls. If you have had a fall or are concerned about falls give us a call. PT can be a very effective way to reduce your risk.

Often as we age we hear stories about friends and loved ones falling and the impact it has on their life and independence. This leads to a lot of fear

05/21/2025

Drop your hellos to Tessa below. She is currently enrolled at the College of Coastal Georgia studying biological sciences. She is a lifelong softball player, is usually found near the beach, lake or some other body of water and has a beautiful German shepherd but the name of Kaiser.

Ask her about one of these things the next time you’re in the clinic. She’ll be in our Brunswick location thru the summer until she returns to classes in the Fall. She is one of our PT Techs, who keep us running daily with anything that may come up in the clinic.

05/07/2025

I’ve been a tattoo artist for 17 years, which means spending countless hours hunched over clients in awkward positions every single day. Over time, I’ve developed persistent pain in my right shoulder, trap, neck, that radiates up to my jaw. I’ve tried everything! workouts, massage, ultrasound, chiropractic care, even peptide injections, but nothing gave me lasting relief. I thought physical therapy was only for people recovering from injuries, so it was my last-ditch effort.

How wrong I was! My very first session with Dr. Denise was amazing. She used dry needling with e-stim, which felt incredible after suffering for so long (can’t wait for that again!). Then she showed me the exact exercises I needed for my specific condition. My second session was just as positive: I had a great workout with Julie, who is an absolute pleasure and showed me movements that target stabilization over strength, followed by a dry needling session with Dr. Ashley, who worked on additional trigger points we’d missed my last session.

If you think physical therapy isn’t for you, think again. The entire team here is fantastic, and although my shoulder pain isn’t completely gone yet, I’m experiencing more relief than I’ve had in years. I highly recommend giving them a try and can’t wait to come back for more!

05/06/2025

As spring rolls quickly toward summer, schools almost out and everything feels busy, don’t forget to schedule yourself some relaxation with a massage with Bailey. Everything feels a little better after a wonderful massage.

05/05/2025

It seems some GPS devices are off in our exact location, they get you close but not to where we really are!

Check out the picture below, it has us located accurately.

If you turn beside cheddars you will come to a stop sign at a dead end, turn right and we are the first turn left. There are two buildings, we are the one on the left that is 1 story.

Always call us if you need any help finding us!

05/02/2025

You guys have heard us talk about this many times now, but the list of health improvements you receive from living an active lifestyle are so great it’s worth repeating.

Here they are:
Improved all-cause mortality (meaning any cause of death reduces as you are more active)
Improved cardiac health outcomes
Reduced cardiovascular death
Reduced high blood pressure
Reductions in some types of cancer
Reduced type 2 diabetes risk
Reduction is symptoms of anxiety and depression
Improved cognitive health
Improved sleep quality
Reduction in adipose tissue

The white box on the bottom right of the picture is important to note.
Doing some activity is better than none, this is not an all or nothing thing.
As with all things, don’t dive into the deep end. Introduce activities slowly progressing with time to reach these amounts.

How do you plan to move more this weekend?

04/28/2025

We always love loving on sweet babies when they tag along with their mothers to PT.

04/23/2025

Anyone want to do a Q&A? Do you have any burning PT related questions? Something you’d like to ask one of our team members?

Anything from schooling, favorite populations, favorite exercises, hated exercises, etc.

Leave your question in the comments or shoot us a message and I’ll get you an answer!

04/22/2025

We have been seeing SO many people lately with vertigo. Vertigo is a specific type of dizziness where the room feels like it is spinning. There are several different causes for vertigo so it’s important, if you have onset of symptoms, that you see your care provider for a full assessment.

After other causes may be ruled out (stroke or other neurological conditions, migraines, heart issues among others), you may likely be referred to PT.

Once you get to PT you’ll have a full assessment with us so we can determine what deficits you have. Oftentimes, people are told they have a positional vertigo. This is when you change position and the room spins rather violently for a little bit then resolves back down. We love positional vertigo, bc there is a quick and easy way for us to resolve this, usually completely, within one session.

Sometimes you’ll be told you have positional vertigo when that may not be the case. Perhaps your vertigo doesn’t make the room spin, but rather makes you feel dizzy or lightheaded. Maybe it only happens with movement, in busy environments or when you stand up suddenly.

We can help with most of those things also, it just may not be as quick or dramatic a fix as with positional vertigo.

04/21/2025

Thank you for sharing the love for our Vitality Assisted Living team, L.L!