At Empire Sports Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, we love to help Active Adults and Athletes get back to their work outs, sports and activities they love with minimal downtime.

When something like pain in the knees, back, neck, shoulders or ankles strikes or you have a injury from your work outs or favorite sport-we know it’s tempting to let it go, saying “it’ll go away on its own” with rest and time…That one day you’ll wake up and like “magic”, it’ll be as if it never happened—but that’s not usually the way it happens, and often the pain ends up worse than when it started and stops your work outs, sports and activities for longer periods.

We also know that it’s easy to just reach in the medicine cabinet, get a massage, or beg the doctor for a cortisone injection—all those may give you some temporary relief and allow you to get through this work out, push through the day, or play that one game…

…BUT that is no good for your long-term health and may even make doing all those things tomorrow impossible.

Maybe you’re feeling a little confused and skeptical because you’ve gotten advice from other Healthcare Professionals or even a PT in the past, and nothing seemed to help.

Can you relate?

If that sounds like you, you are not alone. We, at Empire Sports PT, hear this all the time…In fact people who come to see us often have:

• Thought the pain would go away on its own
• Tried a few exercises from YouTube, but those exercises didn’t do a thing or aggravated it making it 10 times worse
• Tried to continue their work outs, thinking that more workouts would help it go away
• Thought it would be a good idea to rest because the pain was so bad, only to get more stiff and tight
• Been to the doctor to be told to wait a month to get an MRI, then when the time for the MRI came and felt no better after the MRI, but told the problem didn’t need surgery…wasting valuable weeks just waiting and getting worse
• Went to the doctor and was given an injection that helped for a couple weeks—only to come back when the medication wore-off
• Talked to their trainer, who said they would modify the program, but the pain continued
• Been told by a friend or family member that “everybody gets aches and pains as they get older”-making it easy to accept it’s “just a part of life”
• Thought that they were doing too much and just needed to slow down for a little so the pain would go away, but it didn’t

Does any of this sound familiar?

If any of these have happened to you, we would love to help you by inviting you to book a call with one of our physical therapists at our Valley Cottage, NY office to find out what can be done to help you. The fact that you’ve tried these things already, like many people we see, is actually a GOOD THING because when you know what doesn’t work—you are closer to finding what does!

Click the link below to book a call with us if you like to get some solid advice given to you over the phone. The phone call is complimentary and there is no obligation to book any appointments with us after the call is over. Our goal is to help you make the best decision of what to do next for you to get back to your best self.