The standard advice for plantar fasciitis: stretch your calf, stretch the bottom of your foot, roll a tennis ball under your heel. Here’s the problem: none of those things fix plantar fasciitis. They manage symptoms. For people who’ve been stretching for months with no lasting improvement, something different is needed. Why stretching doesn’t fix it […]
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Note: we technically don’t use the term shoulder impingement anymore, we call it subacromial pain syndrome. But we’ll use the old term here since most people are familiar with it. Shoulder impingement gets diagnosed a lot. The problem is, the treatment that normally follows usually misses the point entirely. Most people with shoulder impingement are
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Pelvic floor physical therapy is one of the most effective and most underutilized treatments in all of musculoskeletal medicine. The conditions it addresses are extremely common. The success rates are high. And yet most people who need it either don’t know it exists or have been told the symptoms they’re experiencing are just part of
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Pickleball has taken over North County. The courts at Pointsettia Park, Melba-Bishop, and club facilities in Carlsbad and Vista are full, and so are our intake forms with pickleball-related injuries. It’s not that pickleball is unusually dangerous. It’s that it’s played primarily by people 45 and older who are returning to explosive, repetitive activity after
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Somewhere along the way, hyperbaric oxygen therapy got lumped in with the broader wellness industry. That categorization does it a significant disservice. HBOT is not a wellness trend. It’s a medical treatment with a 60-year clinical history, multiple FDA-approved indications, and mechanistic research that explains precisely why it works. Where HBOT comes from HBOT originated
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Shin splints is one of those injuries that feels minor until it isn’t. It starts as a dull ache along the inside or outside of the shin during or after a run. Then it starts showing up earlier in the run. Then it starts showing up on walks. The good news is that shin splints
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Here’s the truth: Achilles tendinopathy is a load problem, not a flexibility problem. Stretching and foam rolling don’t rebuild the tendon’s capacity to handle load. That’s the only thing that actually fixes it. But before we go further, let’s clear up another common misunderstanding. Tendinopathy vs Tendonitis vs Tendonosis: whats the difference? Tendonitis is the
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Sciatica has a way of making itself impossible to ignore. The electric shooting pain down the back of the leg, the numbness, the feeling that your hip or glute is somehow both painful and dead at the same time. It’s one of the most common reasons people come to see us, and one of the
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Recovery modalities have become big business. IV drips, cryotherapy, HBOT, the options keep expanding. If you’re trying to figure out what’s actually worth your time and money, here’s an honest comparison of three of the most popular options. Cryotherapy A 2 to 3 minute exposure to extremely cold air reduces skin and surface tissue temperature
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If you’ve been dealing with lateral elbow pain for more than a few months, there’s a good chance the tissue has changed in a way that makes most standard treatments ineffective. Tendinitis vs. tendinosis: why the distinction matters Most people with elbow pain are diagnosed with tendinitis, which implies inflammation. But research has shown that
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