Tools For Home

Tennis elbow braces are often used to provide support and reduce pain. While they can be a useful treatment tool, they can also make your pain worse if not used properly or for too long a period of time. Keep reading to find out when a tennis elbow brace may help or hurt your recovery. […]

TENS units (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) are marketed as a convenient non-drug way to decrease pain. But can you overuse a TENS unit? Find out in this in-depth look at the benefits, risks, and myths of electrical stimulation. How do TENS units work? TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation aka electrical stimulation or e-stim

Wouldn’t it be great to get a massage every day and melt away your aches and pains?  Here on planet earth, that isn’t possible for most of us. But there are plenty of fitness gadgets to get some workout recovery and pain relief at home.  Both foam rollers and massage guns aim to improve blood

Muscle scraping tools offer a different type of soft tissue mobilization that can’t be accomplished by hand.  Sidekick is bringing workout recovery to a whole new level with an affordable line of muscle scraping tools, that you can use at home, to address problem areas.  Check out my detailed first-hand Sidekick tool review for the

A big part of success with your rehabilitation is your ability to keep up with your physical therapy exercises both during and after your treatment.  But when you’re at home, you may not have all those unique gadgets they have at the physical therapy clinic! Don’t worry! It’s easy to have the necessary tools at