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Easy Steps to Healing a Rolled Ankle

Icy sidewalks. Busy sidewalks. You’re going along at your usual brisk pace, when suddenly you’ve rolled your ankle, slipping on that treacherous, slippery ice. It’s one of the most common injuries around and you don’t need to be athletic to do your ankle in. It can happen to anyone, especially on icy city sidewalks. In […]

Having good posture in New York is vital to help avoid back or neck pain. Good posture plays a significant part in your long-term health; it is not just something that makes you look your best. Holding your body up the correct way means preventing pain, injuries, and other serious health problems. There are two […]

Manipulation under anesthesia New York for spinal pain is an alternative treatment for chronic pain sufferers that can help prevent surgery if that has been prescribed. Spinal manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) is a non invasive procedure that can potentially treat chronic neck and back pain when other treatments like regular adjustments or physical therapy hasn’t worked. […]

Another treatment we offer is medical massage in New York. Medical massage is different from your regular spa massage in several ways. Although they have some similarities, there are some important differences between them that are important to know for your health and well being. The biggest difference between the two is obviously the purpose […]

At Back & Body we have Tens Treatment New York, otherwise known as electrical stimulation. Electrical stimulation is a physical therapy modality. We may use E- Stim or TENs treatment when you have the following conditions: low back pain, post-surgical pain, muscle weakness/ poor motor control, tendonitis, or bursitis. Tens treatment is used for various […]

While all our bodies follow a common “blueprint”, no two are the same. And back pain, whether in the lower back or elsewhere, manifests differently in different people. And that, my friends, is why there is no such thing as the “ideal” mattress. There are no two people alike and no mattress is going to […]

What is the Graston Technique? The Graston Technique a manual therapy treatment better known as “soft tissue instrument assisted mobilization” A stainless steel instrument is used that scrape and massage the skin with the correct amount of pressure to figure out where the problem is located. When located on the correct tissue, using the Graston […]

The opioid pain medication addiction rate in the US is only going up which means that researchers are constantly analyzing data to search for an alternative in managing chronic musculoskeletal pain. Research into opioid addiction New York estimates that about 50 percent of adults are affected by musculoskeletal pain, which results in a cost of […]

We’re living in the mobile generation. It’s all about being in constant contact with the world. Could there be anything more stressful? And yet, we’re all on the mobile device bandwagon, living and dying by the tyranny of the 21st Century phone. We know there has to be a better way and what better time […]

Recently, an article appeared online about Canadians “cold-shaming” each other. Hard to believe, perhaps, that the world’s most reticent people would be so bold as to shame their fellow Canadians for having a low tolerance for the cold but here we are. Are New Yorkers really any different? Some of us enjoy telling anyone who […]