Celebrate Movement With Body Gears During Physical Therapy Month

October 11th, 2021

October is National Physical Therapy Month, providing a spotlight on our profession and the life-changing benefits for our patients. What do the bodies of elite athletes, aging seniors and growing

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Celebrate Fall By Improving Your Balance

September 15th, 2021

September is Falls Prevention Awareness Month and Body Gears offers tips and services to help keep you upright as the weather gets colder. For many, September is a time for

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Helping a Patient Get Back to What She Loved: Backpacking

May 4th, 2016

After making significant improvements following chronic lower extremity injury, our patient wanted to practice something that she loved: backpacking. With trips lasting anywhere 5-7 days, one has to carry a

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Weight Lifter’s Shoulder

May 2nd, 2016

Weight Lifter’s Shoulder Pain near the top of the shoulder, especially felt during or after weightlifting, can be caused by dysfunction of the acromioclavicular joint, otherwise known as the AC

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Oak Brook Body Gears Hosted an Institute of Physical Art (IPA) Education Course

May 2nd, 2016

Thank you to our fellow PTs! Our Oak Brook clinic hosted another Institute of Physical Art (IPA) continued education course this past weekend. Many of our PTs joined this advanced

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Debunking 5 Myths on Disc Herniation

April 27th, 2016

Physical therapy at Body Gears corrects mechanical, neuromuscular, and motor control deficits that are perpetuating disc irritation. With proper management through conservative care, spinal discs can heal just like any

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#TestimonyTuesday 4/19

April 19th, 2016

‪#‎TestimonyTuesday‬ “I have had physical therapy several times before in different places but have never had such thorough, careful, attention and therapy as I had at Body Gears. My therapist

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Left Achilles Tendon Repair

April 7th, 2016

The patient in this video is recovering from a left Achilles tendon repair and is progressing very well with therapy! Now that she is out of her walking boot, it

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