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Today – iREHAB Back Pain app featured in iTunes!

iREHAB.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:43:50 +0000

We’re very excited to announce that our iPhone/ iPad/ iPod Touch application ‘iREHAB Back Pain’ is featured in today’s top 20 list of “New and Noteworthy” applications in the Health Care & Fitness category in iTunes!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irehab-back-pain/id417989015?mt=8

Way to go team and thanks everyone for the downloads! We’re ready for more!

Sincerely,

Keith

Founder/ CEO

Help your Back Pain more effectively-Learn more

iREHAB.com — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:28:35 +0000

Most times, muscle pain including Back Pain is the result of changes in the length and/or tension in your muscles. This change can cause muscle spasm, weakness, loss of flexibility, and poor circulation to the injured area.

Using a foam roller has multiple beneficial effects and helps the body return to a more efficient, healthy state.

Let’s look at some of these benefits:

1. Compressing a muscle using a foam roller will help the muscle to relax into its normal resting state.

2. It will help break up knots and scar tissue.

3. It will improve the circulation in the area. Restricted circulation can result in pain, decreased strength and poor healing of injured tissue.

Using a foam roller prior to stretching will allow your muscles to stretch better. So whether your goal is to decrease pain, or to improve flexibility or strength, using a foam roller will help you reach it.

Get foam roller exercises with iREHAB- Back Pain application for iPhone and iPad hitting the App Stores in a few weeks! ”Like” this article and you’ll be the first to know!

Jeff Freeman

VP of Physical Therapy Program Development

iREHAB.com

iREHAB helps high school athletes with injury prevention techniques

iREHAB.com — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:10:53 +0000

Given the prevalence of high school injuries and the integration of everyday technology in that age group, iREHAB’s web and mobile solutions allow high school programs an opportunity to teach injury prevention techniques more cost effectively and efficiently. A Team account allows players to log on and get their Foam Roller exercises in between practices and during school breaks!

A local high school girls soccer team is seen here Foam Rolling before practice.

Awesome!

Have Back Pain? Here’s help

iREHAB.com — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:59:49 +0000

As if lower back pain wasn’t hard enough to get rid of, did you know that where you feel your pain probably isn’t where the problem is or the source of where your pain is? All muscles in the human body have the ability to refer pain. This means that when a muscle is injured, tight, in spasm or congested it will often cause pain far from where the problem is. And the muscles in the lower back are no different.

Examples of tricky or confusing back pain you may have experienced are:

1. Lower back pain/ stiffness across the waistline after sitting or bending. Common cause: muscles in the front of the hips (yes, not the back!).

2. Pain radiating down the outside or back of your leg when you stand. Common cause: Piriformis (a deep butt muscle).

Now this is a very small and partial list but represents an important example of the fact that where you “feel” the pain may not be where the problem is.

iREHAB’s-Back Pain application has this knowledge embedded into the fabric of it’s functionality to identify the true cause of your pain. From there clear concise corrective exercises are given to provide you quick, effective, lasting solutions.

“Like” this post and you’ll be the first to be alerted when our app hits the App Store!

Jeff Freeman

VP of Physical Therapy Program Development

Irehab.com