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Essential Product Tips From Renew
Physical Therapy
Even if you do not end coming
to see us to achieve your lasting results, check below for some great
essential home-use products that can help you get some relief today!
| Men and Women - The Foam Roller Helps You Work Out Muscle Tension, Triggerpoints, and Myofascial Pain |
 
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Foam Rollers are great for balance exercises, stability exercises, strength training, home exercise, stress reduction, and triggerpoint and myfascial release.
Rollers can be used effectively in many positions - supine, prone, sitting, kneeling, lying on your side, or standing. We recommend all of our patients start rolling their pain away immediately once their conditions are less acute
Check out some basic exercises with the foam roller here. There is also an amazing foam roller workout found in Isa Herrera's GREAT book Ending Female Pain, A Woman's Manual
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| Quick Trigger
Point Release With The Theracane |
 
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The Theracane is a great tool we
recommend for our patients for use on painful muscular spots, which
are also known as triggerpoints. These spots anywhere on the body,
including shoulders, groin, gluteals, forearms, etc.
How To Use:
- Place knob of the Theracane on the
painful muscular spot (triggerpoint)
- Gently press knob of the Theracane
into your triggerpoint, keeping the pressure constant and consistent
for 90 secs
- Repeat as necessary until pain has
significantly decreased.
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| Relieve Plantar
Fascitis Foot Pain With The Stick FootWheel |
 
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The Stick FootWheel is an essential
tool for our patients to utilize at home for those who are suffereing
from foot pain, or who are recovering from foot surgery. This device
helps to soothe tired, achy, and painful feet, and helps to release
triggerpoints and muscle spasms in the muscles of the bottom of
the feet. A great tool for those suffering from plantar fascitis.
How To Use:
- Can be used anytime of the day, especially
at work
- Gently roll the bottom of the foot
for up to 10 minutes at a time. For especially painful spots
apply constant pressure to the spot for 90 secs until the pain
subsides. Repeat as necessary.
- If you are able, apply ice to the bottom
of the foot for 10 minutes after rolling. Make sure the ice
is wrapped in a towel or t-shirt to prevent buring the skin.
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| Relief For Achilles
Tendonitis and Overall Foot Pain With The ProStretch |
 
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The ProStretch is a must have for
our patients to decreasefoot pain, plantar fascial spasm, and achilles
tendonitis and tightness. The ProStretch helps you maintain calf
and foot flexbility, which is necessary for pain-free walking and
standing. This is a great home device for runners, from weekend
warriors to marathon athletes.
How To Use:
- Place either foot into the ProStretch
and flex the foot uwards until a strtch is felt in your calf
muscles. You may have to brace yourself against the wall or
doorway.
- You can do this stretch with the leg
straight or with the knee slightly bent to target different
fibers in your calf muscles and tendons.
- Hold this stretch for 30 seconds and
repeat 1-3 times. Do this stretch on your own at home or at
work 1-3 times daily.
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| Relief For Neck Pain and Shoulder Tension With The Still Point Inducer |
 
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The Still Point Inducer is an essential tool to relieve neck and shoulder pain. Once you start using this great little device you will begin to feel a sense of relief as your body lets go and begins to correct its own muscle imbalances and spasms.
Benefits Include:
- Helps relieve headaches and migraines
- Eases chronic musculoskeletal pain
- Enhances immune sytem efficiency
- Facilitates your body's self-correcting abilities
- Provides deep relaxation and helps reduce stress
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| Great
For Releasing Trigger Points of the Pelvic Floor Muscles |
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The Deluxe Crystal Wand is
must have for patients suffering from chronic pelvic pain.
This device helps men and women take control of their pain.
With proper instruction from a physical therapist trained
in pelvic floor conditions, this tool puts the power in the
patient's hands, allowing you to reach deep pelvic floor muscles.
How To Use:
- For proper use of this device,
make sure you are adequately trained by a physical therapist
who is trained specifically in pelvic floor muscle conditions.
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| Women's Wisdom, Women's Bodies, Revised Edition- by Dr. Christiane Northrup |
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Quite possibly every female over the age of 12 will find this huge book enlightening, pain saving, and perhaps even lifesaving. Northrup is a gynecologist who acknowledges the power of natural therapies and herbs, but also maintains that allopathic treatments, including surgery, are sometimes best. In Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, she covers the treatment of many physical concerns--among them PMS, menstrual cramps, breast cancer, fibroids, endometriosis, infertility, depression, childbirth, abortion, cystitis, and menopause--explaining how many of these physical problems have roots in emotional upsets. Ending Female Pain by Isa Herrera is mentioned as a resource in this newly updated women's health bible.
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| Creative Visualization Techniques For Mind Body Healing |
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This amazing book is a must read for all people who believe in the power of mind-body medicine and how it can be a successful component in your healing process.
Click here for an exerpt from Shakti Gawain's groundbreaking work, originally published in the 1970's. I recommend all my patients get a copy of this book. More Info...
This book includes:
- Daily meditations to change your brain patterns
- Visualizations that help you connect with universal energy present in each person
- Great explanations about how powerful our thought patterns an be.
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| Secret Suffering - How Women's Sexual and Pelvic Pain Affects Their Relationships - by Susan Bilheimer and Robert J. Echenberg M.D. |
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This great book explains how pelvic and sexual pain affects the lives of women (and men) and their partners in their own words. The work also provides information on cutting-edge research and describes the most effective treatment modalities.
Susan Bilheimer, coauthor, shares her own experiences as a patient who has gone down the painful, frustrating road of living with an illness that is often dismissed and not taken seriously. Robert J. Echenberg, M.D., coauthor, has treated over 700 women (and some men) with the disorder. He shares his decades of experience and expertise as a gynecologist and specialist in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain.
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| Young Living Essential Oil Lavender 15 Ml For Relaxation |
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Lavender oil helps you relax and improves feelings of well-being, and also has medical benefits as well.
Benefits of Lavender Oil:
- Helps with insomnia, nervous tension,
menstrual/PMS problems
- Helps to lower high blood pressure
- Anti-inflammatory, anti-septic and anti-fungal
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Disclaimer: Consult your Doctor and /or
Physical Therapist before attempting these exercises or self-help prescriptions.
Serious injury could result from improper performance of these techniques.
If pain occurs with any exercise STOP immediately. Renew Physical Therapy
is not liable for injury caused by the improper performance of these
exercises. This self-help tips found on our website are merely a guide,
it is not a prescription for Physical Therapy.
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