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Physical Therapy News and Education from Muscle IQ Physical Therapy
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Chris Knudsen, provides useful insight and analysis of today's top health stories affecting you. Dr. Chris gives his take on recent research articles that pop up in the news, as well as helpful tips for those looking for pain relief from low back pain, neck pain, and other injuries.
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Utilizing Light Touch to Assess Motor Cortex Inhibition in Muscle Weakness Associated with Pain
Muscle Inhibition is Universal in Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy Introduction Muscle weakness is a common clinical presentation in...
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6 days ago8 min read
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Is The Muscle Weak Because of Joint Degeneration?
Physical Therapists could benefit from learning the principle being taught in the following study. Study: Increased motor cortex...
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Dec 20, 20242 min read
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How Muscle IQ Can Help You Prevent Low Back Pain Recurrence
Topic: Preventing Low Back Pain Recurrence Strengthen Weak Muscles Find all muscle weakness you didn't know you had Eliminate all signs...
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Sep 14, 20242 min read
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How Does Pain Cause Weak Muscles?
Everybody who has pain has some kind of muscle weakness. Why does this happen? Well, our brain is trying to protect our body. When we...
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Apr 11, 20241 min read
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Using Light-Touch to Decrease Spinal and Motor Cortex Inhibition
I use this technique everywhere. Light touch when applied over the origin of weakness or pain can improve muscle output. This also...
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Feb 10, 20241 min read
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Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) Is Reflex Testing
At Muscle IQ Physical Therapy, we use techniques that are not common in most physical therapy clinics. We use manual muscle testing...
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Oct 28, 20232 min read
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Whiplash and Neck Pain Can Really Hurt!
Treating Whiplash Injury at Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy Whiplash injury is a common occurrence that can result from sudden and forceful...
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Apr 8, 20233 min read
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What is Fascia?
At Muscle IQ Physical Therapy we are the Fascia Experts. If you have pain somewhere in your body chances are the pain is coming from...
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May 7, 20222 min read
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No Pain, No Gain- False Idea!
Does “No Pain, No Gain”Help Chronic Pain? Millions of people suffer from chronic pain and the preferred treatment for years has been...
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Dec 2, 20213 min read
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A "No Brainer": Muscles Work by Reflex
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ Physical Therapy 9-22-2021 I recently read an interesting study in the Journal 'Brain'. The study looked...
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Sep 22, 20214 min read
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You Can Recover From Whiplash
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy 9-11-2021 There are a lot of people suffering from neck pain and headaches after a car...
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Sep 11, 20213 min read
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The 3 Keys to Successful Low Back Pain Rehab
Muscle IQ Blog Chris Knudsen, DPT 8-28-21 At Muscle IQ Physical Therapy in Provo, Utah, WE LOVE TREATING LOW BACK PAIN. And, we work...
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Aug 28, 20216 min read
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Are You in Pain because of Muscle Inhibition?
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ Physical Therapy - Provo, UT At Muscle IQ Physical Therapy we help you get Pain Relief Now! Inhibited...
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Aug 14, 20212 min read
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Top 3 ways to pick the real "Best Physical Therapy" Near You
You need physical therapy. How do you decide where to go? Your first search on Google will show you a map with the top three Physical...
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Jul 27, 20213 min read
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Is Fascia Another Communication System Inside our body?
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy For this week's blog I will be commenting on another YouTube video about fascia: The...
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Mar 13, 20212 min read
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Does Fascia Make Our Body Stronger?
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy This week's blog will focus on another YouTube video about Fascia. This video talks...
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Mar 6, 20211 min read
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Is Fascia the Source of Chronic Pain?
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy At Muscle IQ we follow a Fascia based approach to treating orthopedic and chronic pain...
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Feb 20, 20212 min read
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Moving Fascia Decreases Inflammation
by Dr. Chris Knudsen Muscle IQ - Physical Therapy Fascia Video review and summary https://youtu.be/7Gcl7BN6-38 At Muscle IQ - Physical...
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Feb 6, 20212 min read
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Three Important Factors in Successfully Recovering from Chronic Back Pain
Part 3: Reconditioning the Back Muscles In this series about chronic back pain I am addressing what I feel are the three key components...
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Jun 2, 20203 min read
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Three Important Factors in Successfully Recovering from Chronic Back Pain
Part 2: Restoring Normal Muscle Response In this series about chronic back pain I am addressing what I feel are the three key...
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May 27, 20202 min read
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