My Story
I’ve been practicing PT for almost 20 years. I have implemented what I call “Veteran values” in my daily life. I will go the extra mile to help my clients. I am experienced, trustworthy, and committed to achieving their goals.
Prevention from COVID-19 via healthy lifestyle
Most of the discussion for the past 2 years centered around COVID-19 has been about vaccines. Very little talk has been about prevention via healthy lifestyle. In July 2021, the CDC released the numbers behind severe COVID-19 complications and comorbidities. Source here: https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm They looked at over 540,000 adults with severe illness related to COVID-19 and what were their underlying medical conditions. They found that the strongest risk factor for death was obesity, anxiety, and diabetes with complications (diabetes with corresponding condition such as coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis). All three of these risk factors can be mitigated through exercise:…
Common Mistakes When Self-Treating
The majority of the referrals I get for physical therapy are sub-acute or chronic injuries. For a muscle, that means the injury is generally four or more days old. Three days may seem like a small amount of time, but a lot can happen in the tissues in 72 hours! In this brief post, I’ll go over the most common mistakes I see when self-treating a minor injury. NOT treating. If I had a dollar for every patient that told me “It wasn’t a big deal, so I just thought it would go away…” That may have worked when…
Are you with me or against me?
With over 20 years experience in building partnerships between healthcare providers and local businesses, I’ve seen a wide variety of less-than-optimal decisions. Business owners and their HR/ safety teams are being pulled in many directions these days. It was that way before COVID-19, but even more so now. As healthcare providers servicing these businesses, we need to make their lives easier, not more complicated. For those on the business side of this equation, consider your relationship with your healthcare partners on your workers compensation panel. How can you improve the partnership to work WITH YOU, not against you? Here is…
Buy Local Coalition – York County Pennsylvania
Here at Beck Therapy we believe in our local initiatives and working with York County businesses to promote our local work forces. As a proud member of the York County Economic Alliance and the buy local coalition we work with local businesses providing ergonomic assessments, preventative care, and work task analyses to help prevent workplace injury and provide a safe workplace. Contact us to see what we can do for you.
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