Tips For a Healthy Winter Season

Being Bostonians, we’re no strangers to nasty winter weather.  Unfortunately, even the hardiest New Englanders can fall victim to injuries caused by unsafe roads, heavy snow, and slippery footing.  Hopefully, a brief reminder of some effective tips can help keep you...

Tips For The Best Total Knee Replacement Outcome You Can Get

Thinking about getting a total knee replacement? Already have the surgery scheduled? Be sure to read these tips and advice from some of our physical therapists, who collectively treat hundreds of knee replacements yearly.  Patients who experience success and...

Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy: Which is Right?

Short Answer is both. In the United States, the term physical therapy is most often used. However, in Canada, Mexico and the majority of countries in Europe, physiotherapy denotes our profession. One thing is for sure though; regardless of what we are called, physical...

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome at Furnace Brook Physical Therapy

Furnace Brook PT has seen a rise in the last 2-3 years of patients being referred for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Our clinicians are not sure if it is being more accurately diagnosed, or if there are, in fact, more young patients with it. We thought our blog might...