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Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Mood!
Jul 30
Posture & Mood: An Interesting Approach
There are correlations between posture and certain moods, feelings and even pain. For example, when someone is sad or in pain, they tend to...
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Quick and Easy Desk Workout
Jun 18
QUICK and EASY Desk Workout
Sitting at work too much? Feel like you are not moving enough during the day? Do this quick 2-minute workout once every 2-3 hours to...
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Dry Needling: It’s NOT worth all the hype
Feb 11
It is so important as health care providers to be able to research and assess new and attractive treatment interventions prior to using them on patients. It is also...
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How to Manage Your Back Pain
Feb 3
Back pain is a normal part of being human. Around 80% of the population will experience back pain at some point in their life, and those same people will...
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Posture and Work-related Injuries
Jan 15
Let’s Talk Posture and Ergonomics!
We had an opportunity to sit down and chat with Brent Cordery, physical therapist at Omaha Physical Therapy Institute (OPTI), about ergonomic assessments and the...
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Simple Tips to Address Your Pain
Nov 5
Omaha Physical Therapy Institute (OPTI) specializes in orthopedic and sports related injuries and pain. OPTI brings something better to the physical therapy realm in the Omaha area. We get...
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How To Go Back To Lifting Weights after a Back Injury
Sep 9
Back pain can be a common complaint in the weight room. It can be debilitating at times, limiting your function and not allowing you to perform your exercise routine...
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Cutting Edge Treatment for Back Pain!
Aug 14
In an article published by Aspetar Sports Medicine Journal, Peter O’Sullivan discusses the challenges of treating persistent back pain and how a targeted cognitive functional approach has superior outcomes...
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Individualizing Treatment for Pain
May 22
Individuals seek care at Omaha Physical Therapy Institute (OPTI) in order to overcome pain, injury, and disability. A lot of people are fearful of movement when they walk through...
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Taking the Fear out of Movement
Nov 13
Choose Your Words Carefully
I had a patient come in recently to their physical therapy session and tell me that another medical professional told her that she had “the worst,...
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The Power of Touch
Oct 4
Do you remember when you were younger and you had to get a shot at the doctor’s office? What did you want to do at that moment? I remember...
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Staying Comfortable and Healthy at Work
Jul 17
Keeping it Comfy at Work!
Ergonomics: Merriam-Webster defines ergonomics as an “applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people interact most efficiently and safely.” ...