Written by Megan Colletti, MS, OTR/L Pain Consultants of East Tennessee is proud to be a part of the National Council on Aging Falls Awareness week from September 18-24, 2022. You may be asking, what does chronic pain have to do with falling? Why do we care? The Center for Disease Control has identified 33 [...]
In the latest edition of Pain Talks: The Podcast, Dr. James Choo sits down with Physical Therapist Laurel Anderson to talk about how physical therapy can help with acute neck and back pain. PainConsultantsOfEastTN · Pain Talks: Physical Therapy and Neck and Back Pain
October is National Physical Therapy Month and we couldn't let time go by without recognizing our very own Laurel Andersen, PT! Laurel joined our team in 2019 as our lead physical therapist and has made such a wonderful impact on the lives of the patients she sees. Recently, a patient talked about Laurel's impact in [...]
by Laurel Andersen, PT, CLT-LANA, CEAS Cooler weather has arrived here in East Tennessee and it can bring with it some challenges. Some people report more aches and pains, especially in their joints, as the temperature drops. This may be related to the change in barometric (atmospheric) pressure, which can drop as weather systems develop. [...]
October is designated as National Physical Therapy Month. In this post, we summarize the history of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the physical therapy profession below. The organization started in 1921 called the American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association, having 274 members nationally, referred more as Reconstruction Aides than physical therapists It then changed [...]
Pain Consultants of East Tennessee was honored to host the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association quarterly meeting on February 13, 2018. The meeting was attended by physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, and physical therapy assistant students from around the Knoxville area. More than 35 practitioners in attendance were able to discuss changes in physical therapy practice [...]
