Dr. Christopher M Powers PT, PHD
Physical Therapist
1540 Alcazar St Los Angeles CA, 90089About
Christopher Powers is a physical therapist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Christopher Powers specializes in physical treatment to help a patient reduce pain, restore mobility, rehabilitate an injury, or increase movement and overall function. As a physical therapist, Christopher Powers can treat multiple conditions with exercises, ultrasound, electrical stimulation, joint mobilization, heat, ice, massage, laser or light therapy and more. Christopher Powers will create a treatment plan based on the patients specific injury or condition, and might target a specific body part or body system based on the individual.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The effects of patellar taping on knee kinetics, kinematics, and vastus lateralis muscle activity during stair ambulation in individuals with patellofemoral pain.
- Practical management of patellofemoral pain.
- Patellofemoral joint kinetics while squatting with and without an external load.
- Assessment of patellofemoral relationships using kinematic MRI: comparison between qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Strengthening the supraspinatus: a clinical and biomechanical review.
- Patellofemoral joint stress during stair ascent and descent in persons with and without patellofemoral pain.
- Patellofemoral stress during walking in persons with and without patellofemoral pain.
- Utilized coefficient of friction during walking: static estimates exceed measured values.
- Segmental mobility of the lumbar spine during a posterior to anterior mobilization: assessment using dynamic MRI.
- In vivo assessment of patellofemoral joint contact area in individuals who are pain free.
- Determination of lower extremity anthropometric parameters using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry: the influence on net joint moments during gait.
- The influence of altered lower-extremity kinematics on patellofemoral joint dysfunction: a theoretical perspective.
- Is there evidence that botulinum toxin injections are more effective than phenol injections in relieving poststroke reflex activity during plantar flexion, thereby increasing ankle range of motion and improving gait function?
- Anthropometric parameters in children: a comparison of values obtained from dual energy x-ray absorptiometry and cadaver-based estimates.
- Assessment of lumbar spine kinematics using dynamic MRI: a proposed mechanism of sagittal plane motion induced by manual posterior-to-anterior mobilization.
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