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Why Your Quad Tendon Isn’t Healing: The Real Mechanism Behind Quadriceps Tendonopathy

Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT / Pain & Recovery, Uncategorized

Quadriceps tendinopathy is often treated as an inflammatory condition, but that’s one of the biggest reasons people struggle with persistent pain. Many people spend weeks or months icing the knee, resting completely, and avoiding activity, only to find that their symptoms never truly improve. If you have pain right at the top of your kneecap […]

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Why Your Morning Heel Pain Is Worse After Rest and What That’s Actually Telling You

Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT / Pain & Recovery, Uncategorized

If heel pain after rest is your most recognizable symptom – that sharp, stabbing pain with your first few steps out of bed, you’ve probably been told it’s because your plantar fascia tightens overnight and tears slightly when you stand up. That explanation sounds reasonable, but it almost certainly isn’t what’s happening. A more likely

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Your Flat Feet Are Not Broken and They Don’t Need to Be Fixed

Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT / Pain & Recovery, Uncategorized

Many clinicians still judge foot posture using standards developed more than 100 years ago. Researchers have never fully validated those standards. If someone told you that flat feet cause pain, create alignment problems, or lead to future joint issues, it’s worth examining the evidence first. The first thing to know is simple: flat feet are

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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy: What It Is and Who Actually Needs It

Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT / Uncategorized

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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Why Your Shoulder Keeps Impinging

Dr. Jonny Blue, DPT / Uncategorized

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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