What Is TMD?: Temporomandibular Dysfunction is a collection of symptoms that involve the mouth, jaw and supporting structures. While not typically associated with physical therapy, these symptoms can affect eating, talking, yawning and singing which can make a large impact in daily life! TMD can often send referral patterns, or different areas of pain, all throughout the head, neck and face and sometimes cause headaches. Below are some important things to consider when faced with symptoms surrounding jaw dysfunction. Team Approach: It is incredibly important to have a team approach…

We’ve all been there. You took a little too much time off from exercising and now that you’ve finally made your triumphant return to the gym (or track or treadmill or field etc). You wake up the next day wishing you had an escalator to get downstairs.  Figuring out how much is too much can be hard enough for the average gym goer, but when you’re a patient rehabilitating from an injury it can be very challenging to know how hard to push yourself while performing your home exercise program.…

If you ask a physical therapist how they got involved with the profession, many people may be surprised to discover that there are multiple paths to physical therapy. Overall, everyone has to complete similar graduate schooling, but the backgrounds coming into graduate programs vary, which is what makes the profession unique.  For a good number of us, we played sports growing up and injured ourselves and that was the introduction to the field. From there on we pursued undergraduate studies that would apply to the medical field i.e. biology, exercise…

How Can Physical Therapy Help Me During a Pandemic? In the era of COVID, a brand new life language has been forced upon us. We now embrace solitude for the sake of our community and avoid physical interaction as an act of kindness towards our friends, families, and neighbors. The landscape of many industries has evolved rapidly, and our adaptation skills have been tested perhaps now more than ever. While we all settle into our new normal, the FX Physical Therapy family is here for you to support this transition…