Why Your Soleus Muscle Could Be the Key to Pain-Free Knees and Stronger Legs
Discover why the soleus muscle is essential for knee health, injury prevention, and leg strength. Learn targeted exercises from Tidal Wave Wellness in Alpharetta, GA.
GLP-1 Medications: How They Work, Risks to Connective Tissues, and How to Protect Your Body
GLP-1 medications like Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro®, and Zepbound® can be highly effective for weight loss and diabetes management—but they can also lead to muscle loss, tendon weakness, and bone density decline if not paired with proper nutrition and exercise.
At Advanced Manual Therapies in Alpharetta, we help GLP-1 users maintain strength, protect joints, and prevent injuriesthrough tailored physical therapy and wellness programs. Our team works alongside your physician and nutritionist to ensure you get enough protein, collagen, and micronutrients to avoid fragility, sarcopenia, and osteoporosis—common risks during rapid weight loss.
CoQ10 and Statins: Protecting Your Energy and Cellular Health
Statins lower cholesterol but can deplete your body’s natural Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), leading to fatigue, muscle aches, and reduced energy. At Tidal Wave Wellness in Alpharetta, we help replenish CoQ10 to restore cellular energy, reduce discomfort, and support heart health. Learn how targeted supplementation and nutrition can keep you strong while protecting your cardiovascular health.
Perimenopause, Hormones, and Musculoskeletal Pain: What’s Happening—and What Helps
Experiencing unexplained joint pain, stiffness, or muscle aches in your 40s or 50s? At Advanced Manual Therapies in Alpharetta, we specialize in helping women navigate the hormonal changes of perimenopause that can trigger musculoskeletal pain, tendon irritation, and inflammation. Our personalized approach—combining resistance training, hands-on therapy, and coordinated hormonal care—helps you stay strong, mobile, and pain-free through every stage of the transition.
Cold Water Immersion
Cold water plunging offers numerous potential benefits, from reducing inflammation and aiding recovery to boosting mental health and stress resilience.
Red Light Therapy
Red light therapy offers numerous potential benefits, from pain relief and wound healing to improved skin health and muscle recovery.
Fiber: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
Overall, fiber supplementation can be a great way to get the dietary fiber you need for optimal health. It can help to improve digestion, reduce constipation, and control blood sugar levels.
The Importance of Sleep
Sleep is incredibly important for our physical and mental health. It helps to restore our energy levels, reduce stress and anxiety, maintain our immune system, and improve our memory and cognitive performance.
What are the benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar?
One teaspoon of apple cider vinegar each day keeps the doctor away!
Do Adjustments/Manipulations cause Strokes?
Properly trained physical therapists and chiropractors are better equipped to assess and diagnose the cause of neck pain and headaches and recognize the symptoms of a stroke better than general primary care physicians.
Inflammation is a Good thing?
“Inflammation is one of the means by which the body triggers adaptations and healing to occur. For instance, when we lift weights, certain protein pathways are triggered which stimulates muscle growth.”
Dry needling and upper cervical spinal manipulation in patients with temporomandibular disorder: A multi-center randomized clinical trial
“Dry needling and upper cervical spinal manipulation was more effective than interocclusal splint therapy, diclofenac, and TMJ mobilization in patients with TMD.”
Chronic Pain: How PNE can help
While the body believes it is acting in your best interest by adding these new receptors to handle more incoming signals, this is more harmful than beneficial. This adaptation makes it easier to feel pain, and makes that pain more intense, despite no obvious tissue damage or injury.
Imaging: Significant finding or normal ‘Wear & Tear’?
How can an image lie? Because images are interpreted by a radiologist to produce a summary of what they see and don’t see. While this process is meant to be as objective as possible, there is still room for interpreter bias.
Heat vs Ice
I see many people that come in and are still using ice weeks and months following the onset of injury or pain. At this point, the ice is simply slowing down the body’s natural healing response and likely contributing to a bigger problem!