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Mend Colorado Expands Spine Care in Lafayette to Help Residents Overcome Back and Neck Pain
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Mend Colorado Expands Spine Care in Lafayette to Help Residents Overcome Back and Neck Pain

October 8, 2025

Evidence-based physical therapy helps Lafayette residents relieve pain, restore mobility, and stay active. LAFAYETTE, CO. – Mend Colorado is proudly offering its specialized Spine Care services at its Lafayette location, providing lasting relief for back, neck, disc, and spinal pain, including sciatica and postural strain. Whether it’s getting back to work, enjoying family activities, or...

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Research Backs Abdominal Massage for Functional Constipation
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Research Backs Abdominal Massage for Functional Constipation

October 31, 2022

As pelvic physical therapists in Boulder County, functional constipation has been something treated in our clinics via various techniques. A new randomized controlled trial has shown one commonly performed intervention to be an effective first-line treatment for functional constipation. Functional constipation is defined by the Rome IV criteria. Rome IV criteria: Must include two or...

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Deadlifting with Low Back Pain:

November 13, 2025

By: Megan Davis, PT, DPT, OCS Low back pain is the leading cause of pain and disability as research suggests 50-80% of people will experience at least one episode of low back pain in their lifetime (1).  This means it is very common to have low back pain as well as recurrence of low back...

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What percentage of low back disc injuries heal over time?

August 20, 2015

Is a picture really worth 1000 words? As our technology continues to improve MRI and CT scanners have become more proficient at finding changes in our spines. This higher imaging quality comes with a cost in that many of these positive findings like “bulging discs”, arthritis, “pinched nerves” and the frightening-sounding “degenerative disc disease” can...

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Lumbar Injections for Back and Leg Pain

August 25, 2015

The use of lumbar corticosteroid injections is often utilized for patients with back and leg pain (radicular pain) and/or leg numbness, pins and needles, or nerve root weakness (radiculopathy).  In an older adult these symptoms may be due to a narrowing of the canals in which the lumbar nerve roots exit (lumbar stenosis).  These injections...

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Staying Active and Low Back Pain

September 3, 2015

There are disagreements on how to best manage acute low back pain, see our prior blog post on physical therapy low back pain management (http://bit.ly/1JQDVfh), but one thing we all agree on is the harmful effects of bed rest on acute low back pain.  Research has documented patients who rest have a higher degree of...

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35% Greater Cost For Physical Therapy Care At Physician Owned Practices

August 30, 2015

Currently, consumers have many choices of where to obtain Physical Therapy services for their pain and sports injuries.  One option includes a clinic owned by the physician, often an orthopedist or physiatrist, who refers the patient to the clinic in which he/she has financial ownership.  This arrangement, described as a physician owned physical therapy service...

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Low Back Pain and Physical Therapy Treatments

September 1, 2015

Low Back Pain Background Information Low back pain is a common disorder affecting up to 90% of people in the lifetime and is the 2nd most common reason people seek medical attention(1,2). Our health care system spends an average of over $90 billion dollars on low back pain largely from increases in surgical procedures, injections,...

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