Spine Universe Editorial Board

Her professional strengths include manual therapy, wound care, sports orthopaedics, back and neck dysfunction, and management.

Dana's professional experience includes patient treatment in different settings; rehabiliation facilities, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and in nursing.
Dana L. Davis, MPT is on the Spine Universe Editorial Board.

SpineUniverse articles from Dana L. Davis, MPT

• Biofeedback: Questions and Answers
  Biofeedback is an alternative treatment where a patient is trained to control physiological functions and repress pain.
• Can Physical Therapy Help Me?
  Physical therapy encompasses a variety of non-operative treatments to promote healing, relieve pain, and help prevent future injury.
• Conserving Energy during Recovery
  Information on how to conserve energy while recovering while managing to complete household chores.
• Hot and Cold Therapies for Pain and Discomfort
  Hot and cold therapies are the oldest forms of treatment to help reduce muscle inflammation, tenderness, and pain.
• How Do Sit-ups Help My Spine?
  It may seem counterintuitive, but doing sit-ups and other abdominal exercises to strengthen your core muscles in the front of your body can actually help relieve your back pain. A physical therapists explains why in the Ask The Experts article.
• Hydrotherapy and Aquatic Therapy
  Gentle water exercises use the water's resistance to build muscle strength and flexibility. Water exercise can benefit people who find weight bearing exercise difficult (or painful) on dry land.
• Joint and Soft Tissue Mobilization
  Mobilization is a hands-on manual therapy designed to restore joint movement, power, and range of motion.
• Massage Therapy
  Massage is a treatment for pain and stress. This is a medical desrciption and has nothing to do with sex or erotic massage.
• Occupational Therapy: Questions and Answers
  The purpose of Occupational Therapy (OT) is to help people increase their functional independence in daily life while preventing or minimizing disability. Often OT is combined with other treatments including Physical Therapy.
• Physical Therapists: Professionals Working Toward Wellness
  Physical therapists are highly educated medical professionals who work with patients toward wellness and injury prevention.
• Physical Therapy: Questions and Answers
  Physical therapy combines passive modalities with active exercise to help patients resume normal activities more quickly.
• Preventing Injuries at Work
  Avoiding back and neck pain is as easy as ABC. Learn about how to prevent injuries to the spine while on the job using awareness, body mechanics, and conditioning.
• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)
  TENS works to decrease pain perception and may be used to control acute and chronic pain. It may also be used with other treatments such as exercise.
• Ultrasound: A Common Treatment Used in Physical Therapy
  Ultrasound is a passive modality: a supplement to the primary treatment (e.g. exercise). Passive modalities typically are used to relax the patient, a distraction from pain, and/or to warm muscles for exercise.
• What Can Physical Therapy Do for Me?
  Learn about physical therapy treatments and tips on how to improve your posture and body mechanics.
• What Can Physical Therapy Do For Me?
  A physical therapist discusses the following questions. What is physical therapy? What can a physical therapy program do for me that I cannot do on my own? How long is it going to take? Who benefits from physical therapy?