If you’ve been told to rest your patellar tendon pain, you’ve been given advice that sounds logical but is often completely wrong for this type of injury. Rest reduces the pain. But it doesn’t fix the tendon. And it doesn’t fix the reason WHY the tendon started hurting in the first place. In fact, it […]
Patellar Tendinitis: Why Rest Makes It Worse (Not Better) Read More »
If you surf, paddleboard, or do any sport that involves overhead pulling through water, your shoulder is doing something genuinely demanding. Shoulder problems are one of the most common things we treat at Land and Sea PT, and a significant portion of those patients are water sports athletes who kept pushing through discomfort until they
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If you’ve had a cortisone shot for shoulder pain, there’s a good chance it worked. For a while. Then the pain came back, maybe worse than before, and you found yourself wondering whether to get another one. The short answer is: probably not, and here’s why. What cortisone actually does Cortisone is an anti-inflammatory. It’s
StemWave vs. Cortisone for Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy: What Actually Heals Read More »
If you’ve been told you have a rotator cuff tear and surgery was presented as the obvious next step, it’s worth pausing before you book the OR. For the majority of rotator cuff tears, physical therapy produces outcomes comparable to surgery. Not slightly worse. Comparable. And PT doesn’t come with the recovery time, the cost,
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The chain reaction Few Actually explain If you’ve been dealing with knee pain for more than a few weeks, there’s a good chance the knee isn’t the problem. Often, it’s the victim of a problem happening somewhere else. Your knee is sandwiched between your ankle and your hip. Both of those joints have to move
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Written by: Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT Here’s the thing most people, including a lot of providers, get wrong about persistent knee pain: the knee is almost never the source of the problem. It’s where you feel it. That’s not the same thing. The knee sits between two of the most important joints in your body,
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Written by: Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT If you’ve been dealing with golfer’s elbow or tennis elbow, you’ve probably already tried the obvious stuff- rest, ice, a brace, maybe some forearm stretches. And it probably helped a little. Until you picked up a golf club, grabbed a barbell, or spent a weekend doing yard work. Then
Why Your Elbow Keeps Flaring Up (And Why Rest Isn’t the Answer) Read More »
Written by: Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT If you’ve had plantar fasciitis before, you already know the routine. It hurts for a few months, you rest it, maybe do some stretching, it gets better. And then about six weeks after you start running again, it’s back. Same heel, same morning pain, same frustration. This isn’t bad
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Written by Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT · Founder, Land and Sea Physical Therapy Hip pain is one of the most misread conditions we see in the clinic. Patients arrive having been told they have bursitis when they have a labral tear, or told they have a labral tear when they have impingement, or told it’s
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