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Does PAIN distract you from living life? My PT will relieve your pain

Custom Physical Therapy plans developed with your goals in mind. Custom Physical Therapy is the solution to many pains, injuries, and physical limitations our bodies can experience from head to toe. Don’t live in pain when you can choose relief with a trained healer. Treatment sessions focus on resolving unwanted symptoms like:



*PAIN
*POOR POSTURE
*TRIGGER POINTS
*STIFFNESS
* SORENESS
*DIFFICULT MOVEMENT
*WEAKNESS
*TIGHTNESS
HEADACHES / MIGRAINES
*PINCHED NERVES
*MUSCLE SPASMS
*NUMBNESS / TINGLING

Learn how to prevent symptoms or injuries from coming back. My PT was created for the client who is committed to improving their body’s health without the restrictions imposed by traditional health insurance companies. You will receive 100% attention from Dr. Tom who listens, looks, and feels for what is going on with your muscles, joints, and nerves. He will interpret these findings so we can develop a personalized plan to help you heal better, live better.

How do you know if you have Inflammation? The Inflammation occurs as a natural phase of the healing process. The body li...
06/18/2026

How do you know if you have Inflammation?

The Inflammation occurs as a natural phase of the healing process. The body lives in a state of low levels of inflammation that you never realize. That's the immune system on a normal day.

Signs of inflammation include feeling pain, redness, heat, and swelling... theat means there's more inflammation going to begin healing the problem.

The part or parts of the body that demonstrate signs of inflammation need to be evaluated for the cause. It might be caused by a mechanical force from an overuse injury, a chemical reaction to food, drink and the environment around you, or even or a biological source like bacteria, viruses, and genetics.

Anti-inflammatory medicine can help reduce extreme cases of inflammation to relieve pain and assist in the recovery process. Its best to find the cause so long term use of Anti-inflammatory medicine can have negative side effects that may cause irreversible damage.

Seek a medicine provider to help relieve and stop the cause of chronic inflammation or/and manage acute inflammation.

Still wondering why your neck and shoulder hurt? Do the opposite to help fix the imbalance!
06/17/2026

Still wondering why your neck and shoulder hurt? Do the opposite to help fix the imbalance!

06/16/2026

Gentle Yoga tonight 630pm at My PT
$10 drop in, mat included

Fun fact! Can you really have too many toes?Yes, you can!This refers to a posture finding while viewing your feet from b...
06/15/2026

Fun fact! Can you really have too many toes?

Yes, you can!

This refers to a posture finding while viewing your feet from behind. "Too many toes" means seeing more of the toes from the outside. It becomes too many when it's more than the 2 toes. Most times this is become the inner arch is very collapsed and may require support shoes or boots, foot orthotic inserts, special foot-ankle brace, modification in foot-impact activity, carrying extra weight, or walking on sideways on slopes. Sometimes it can result in tendinitis, tears, and rupture all of which could require surgery and/or physical therapy.

Custom Physical Therapy is...1. Designed with your goals in mind, based on your physical exam, and depending on your hea...
06/11/2026

Custom Physical Therapy is...

1. Designed with your goals in mind, based on your physical exam, and depending on your healing state

2. 100% one-to-one with the same Physical Therapist, Dr. Tom Naro

3. Learning about what you can do for yourself and what a professional can do for your body

4. Open access (in MA), no referral, no insurance, no authorization

5. To reduce pain affecting the movement system of the body

6. To promote physical function through the application of neurobiomechanical techniques

7. Learning how and when to protect an injury, then progressing through the phases of physical rehabilitation like restoring joint range of motion, muscle flexibility and strength.

8. A plan created by you and Dr. Tom. Your input is more important than you think and you can be free to express your thoughts as you wish.

9. Wholistic approach to your care because there is more to you than meets the eye

10. A journey to getting you better as soon as possible by giving you the tools to empower your health.

06/10/2026

Balance to keep our body upright can get stronger or weaker like a muscle. Use it or lose it. It's more complicated than this but to keep it simple, balance is the coordination of our muscles to maintain a relatively stable posture in open space. Balance keeps us safe from falling and allows the body to function in a variety of capacities like walking and sitting upright.

People rely on 3 balance centers in the body to feel in control which include:

1. Vision to orient our brain to where are we relative to the horizon
2. Touch sensation from the part that is grounded tells the surface we are on, like our feet when standing
3. Inner ears have a balance organ that acts like a gyroscope to give information about head 3-D position in space

A problem in any of these areas can impact your ability to balance. Good practice is to incorporate balance into your lifestyle.

Daily practice of balance can be accomplished by standing on one foot for a short to longer period of time seconds to minutes. This is a static situation. Balance ia more times is dynamic because we are moving about.

To keep balance in your routine, try regular and engaging activities to make balance a lifelong activity:

1. Dance
2. Martial arts
3. Yoga
4. Hiking
5. Golf
6. Skiing
7. Walking
8. Balance exercise class
9. Table tennis
10. Pickleball

06/09/2026

Gentle Yoga tonight 630pm with Tammy
$10 drop in
Mats included..ease away stress from your body and relax your mind. 🧘‍♂️

Pain can be confusing, irritating, disorienting, distracting, and maybe coming from somewhere you aren't considering. "P...
06/08/2026

Pain can be confusing, irritating, disorienting, distracting, and maybe coming from somewhere you aren't considering. "Pain referral" is an expression of pain generating from one source of the body but felt in a nearby or remotely different parts of the body.

There are some patterns we identify with; consider a heart attack (heart muscle) can send pain down the left arm, jaw, or in the shoulder blade.

A pinched L5 nerve in your lower back could cause pain on the outside of you ankle, thinking it's a sprain, but you don't remember rolling the ankle.

More examples of how pain can tell you what you need to do to take care of yourself:

*Thirst might be the feeling your get when you're hungry
*Irritability might be happen if you need eat nutrition
*Headaches might happen from dehydration
*Dizziness can happen if your neck joints become restricted

Moral of today's FB post: Don't wait to find out, seek solutions. Ask your trusted medical providers about symptoms you want help explaining and treating, without medication unless necessary.

Fun Fact!Muscles can strengthen themselves without having to push heavy weights! Try isometric holds using your body wei...
06/05/2026

Fun Fact!

Muscles can strengthen themselves without having to push heavy weights!

Try isometric holds using your body weight like a wall-sit, plank, or standing on one foot. Focus on "total time under tension" to get your workout in without having to risk getting hurt from heavy resistance.

Pro Tip! Reduce injuries from physical activities with simple, thoughtful concepts that have proven helpful over and ove...
06/04/2026

Pro Tip! Reduce injuries from physical activities with simple, thoughtful concepts that have proven helpful over and over again. Keep these in mind so you can keep your body healthy enough to sustain and grow:

1. Warm up before activity. The blood needs to enter the muscles in order to deliver oxygen. Warming the muscles for 10 minutes calls the blood from the internal organs to the largest organ in your body - the skeletal muscle.

2. Save the "stretch" for after the warmup of after activity. The longer you hold a stretch to lengthen a muscle the greater the temporary weakness will be present. Don't expect stretching yourself longer will give you more strength and power, it does the opposite. Think stretch to relax or reset muscle length as desired.

3. Keep breathing. Holding your breath during exertion can lead to injury. Perhaps a trained snorkeler can still swim while holding their breath and alter their aerobic capacity, that's a different "set of muscles" that need to be flexed. Continuously breathe as you move because holding your breath causes tension in ways you may not be able to control, leading to injury.

4. Know your limits as well as your abilities. So don't push it and go on and on like the Energizer Bunny.

5. Take more breaks between bursts of intense activity. Get your breathing under control before you get back to it for another interval.

6. Refuel your body correctly. You might be thirsty from all the sweating. Test how you do with plain water, added electrolytes and a dash of simple carbs to give you the boost exactly where your body needs it. Consider a real rehydration strategy every 45-60 minutes of sustained activity that makes the sweat pour off you. Grapes and watermelon with a dash of salt does wonders.

7. Get enough rest the night before. It heals like magic. Goes without needing more detail.

8. Alternate days when doing the same activity. But also take a day or 2 off from the high demands. Incorporate light physical activity 2-5 days per week and intense activity 2-3 days per week. Rest can be a relative statement so make up your standard of light, medium and challenging.

9. Ice the sore muscles and joints ASAP.

10. Try a week of a different activity you are familiar with or just dial the activity way back. The rest your body might need isn't just over night but from the accumulation of stress. In this case you can de-load the stress on your body by shaving a layer back until you feel right as rain.

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