Athletes & Sports Injury, Head, Neck, Jaw & Shoulders, Stretching & Flexibility
In this blog I’ll offer a few stretches to help keep your shoulders flexible, healthy and pain-free. If you are already experiencing discomfort or reduced range of motion these stretches can help work out the kinks. As with all the other areas I’ve written about...
Lower Back & Hips, Medical Errors & Misdiagnosis, Stretching & Flexibility
As I have written a lot in these pages about lower back pain, its causes and cures, I feel compelled to address the current outbreak of fungal meningitis that has been linked to a steroid treatment for lower back pain. In this procedure steroids are injected into...
Head, Neck, Jaw & Shoulders, Stretching & Flexibility
As mentioned in my previous blog small movements will have a big effect on the neck. This principle underlies the stretches presented here. The good news is that neck issues respond quickly and easily to correct positioning. However, neck stretches are risky. ...
Lower Back & Hips, Medical Errors & Misdiagnosis, Stretching & Flexibility
In following up on my first post in this series on lower back pain, here is a short video detailing 4 stretches that you can do today to help your back feel better forever. As I stated in the previous post, lower back pain is consistently addressed, in the majority of...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Stretching & Flexibility
For this second blog in our series on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome I will focus on prevention and self-care. Our original blog on this topic, which offered an alternative perspective on CTS, spoke about hand positioning and biomechanics as primary causes of CTS...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Posture, Biomechanics, Gait & Mobility, Stretching & Flexibility
In this blog I will present the case study of a woman who came to the clinic with some pretty serious issues, including severe pain in her neck, shoulders and thumbs, chronic headaches and insomnia. As this is a complicated case, with various factors at play and...
