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Single-Leg Balance Testing using the Biodex Balance System SD
Providing Caring Physical Therapy Pays Dividends
Even though I was brought up in a ‘play-it-safe’ environment, the importance for me to provide real physical therapy and the highest quality of care possible overwhelmed me to the point of going for broke. I purchased a physical therapy practice, bought a new home all while having no contacts with physicians or other referral sources in this area. I had to trust my skill and the power of ‘Word of Mouth.’
The ImPACT of Concussion on Our Young Athletes: The Concussion Management Program – Junior Hockey News
Dr. Salvatore Trazzera, a Board Certified Cardiologist, Internal Medicine Specialist and Sports Medicine Physician has rapidly established himself as the athletes and fitness conscious individual’s physician. He has extensive experience in coronary angiography, non invasive vascular imaging and state of the art cardiac and vascular computed tomography. His life long experience as a competitive athlete combined with his extensive medical training, knowledge and clinical experience provide an uncommon combination of skills which allow him to relate to his athletes in a way unique to few physicians. He is owner and supervising team physician of professional, Jr. A and youth hockey programs for NYTEX Sports, Suffolk PAL and the Texas Brahmas of the Central Hockey League he has introduced a concussion prevention and management program utilizing state of the art clinical neurocognitive (ImPACT@) and neurophysical (Biodex Balance SD@) assessment. This program will help to guide athletes to safer timing of return to play minimizing recurrent and long term injury further decreasing post concussive cognitive impairment. To date he has over 250 competitive athletes baseline tested with ImPACT and Biodex Balance-SD and experience and expertise in returning athletes to competition safely post traumatic brain injury (concussion).
Physical Therapist Named ‘Best Job’ in 2012
US News & World Report yesterday issued its list of “best jobs”—ranking physical therapist as the fourth best job in health care and the eighth best overall job in 2012....
New Test Can Measure Fall Risk
Everybody takes a nasty spill once in a while. But when you start spending more time on the ground then you used to it may be more serious then you think.
Just Opened: Linwood Physical Therapy Center Keeps Patients Coming Back
Body in Balance combines physical therapy and fitness to maximize functional independence and maintain a high quality of life well beyond the therapy period.
Intra and Intersession Reliability of a Postural Control Protocol in Athletes with and Without Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Dual Task Paradigm
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