Have you heard the terms “golfer’s elbow” or “tennis elbow” and wondered what they mean and which one you have?You might also wonder why you have one of these conditions when you don’t play either sport, right?Tennis and golfer’s elbow are conditions with similar signs and symptoms. As their names suggest, we mainly find themRead More…
Are You Feeling Stiff? Need more mobility, right??? The common thought is you should stretch more OR do some complex yoga move that will loosen up the right areas… Andrea came into the clinic less than a month ago and she was complaining of dizziness with neck pain. She had neck pain on and offRead More…
A few years ago, I had the pleasure to work with Letty. She had a knee problem and when she talked to me, she was ready to have surgery! She said, “I just want it done and I want a quick recovery!” I explained to her that most of the time those things like surgeryRead More…
If you are someone that has been having increased difficulty staying strong and keeping good balance, then this is written for you. There are various reasons that we lose our ability to balance with age. The major cause of decreased balance with age is very simple. Our muscle loss accelerates as we get older andRead More…
It’s clear that the activity level of a 5-year-old and a 50-year-old are different and for obvious reasons they can’t do the same things. What a little kid does, the positions they get in and out of so easily are not a part of our everyday life. It’s challenging to get up and down fromRead More…
Yes, that’s right! If you don’t use it, you lose it and that includes muscle, strength, function, skills, language, brain tissue….. There is a pattern here that it seems everything natural in life must be “used” or demonstrated for function; nerve pathways and muscle chains must be nurtured and “cleaned” for optimal long term function.Read More…
Today I get in conversations with clients and family about what they should do for their back pain, shoulder pain, knee pain or hip pain and most of the time their thoughts are on what stretches are the best? Somewhere along the way we were given information that stretching could solve our problems and thatRead More…
Neck pain affects almost everyone at some point and the causes can be simple but when the neck gets aggravated consistently it can be very difficult to break that pain pattern. Over time we start to compensate for movements that we are unable to perform and that is big predictor for chronic injuries. If youRead More…
Your back pain has been getting worse? Most of the time we aren’t sure why our back problems started in the first place… much less what we need to do to make improvements. The first thing to start with is to “stop making it worse.” It’s like picking a scab, when we keep messing withRead More…
This was a good question asked to me last night and the answer can be simple “MOST” of the time! The cause isn’t always the sleeping position but IF that is a really INTENSE time of pain, when you get up or if you are having difficulty getting out of bed, then it is likelyRead More…
