If you are a frequent reader of my blog posts, you will come to understand that I am a physical fitness enthusiast. Being a physical therapist by trade, I am able to recognize flaws and shortcomings in numerous physical fitness…
Bears QB Trubisky left the game early this week after falling hard onto an outstretched shoulder. While the official report on the injury is still unknown, Bears fans are hopeful that an injury to his left shoulder (he’s right-handed) won’t…
We have all experienced it before: the uncomfortable low back ache, the broken bone, the toe you just jammed on the coffee table. Just like death and taxes, there is something else that we all have to put up with…
Why would breathing have anything to do with musculoskeletal injuries and pain? Most people simply know we need to breathe to stay alive. However, our breathing can have a much greater impact on the quality of our lives besides just…
There has a lot of buzz around active release in the past few years but little definition around it. An active release is a manual technique commonly performed by physical therapists for rehabilitative purposes. At React, physical therapists trained in…
Baseball is one of America’s greatest sports. It is often the first sport we played as young children. It taught us the concept of team, winning and losing, and the discipline of practice. It is a sport that has captured…
A Heroic Partnership React Physical Therapy is proud to be an official partner of the Mercy Home Heroes team for the 2019 Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Heroes run on behalf of Mercy Home for Boys & Girls, a residential…
Maybe you’ve heard of it, but you weren’t sure what it meant. Maybe you were too embarrassed to look it up or ask. Women’s health PT is a specialized area of physical therapy that can encompass A LOT of different…
It’s no secret that we spend a lot of time sitting in front of the computer. A recent survey found the typical office worker will spend 1,700 hours a year in front of a computer screen. (1) That comes out…
Magnetic resonance images (MRIs) can be an invaluable medical tool to help discover serious pathologies such as tumors, developmental anomalies, and other abnormalities. However, they are becoming increasingly overused in orthopedic medicine and can often lead to more problems than solutions. One of the major problems with this imaging technique is that while MRIs are sensitive,…