You hurt your back. Your doctor ordered an MRI. The report came back with words like herniated disc, disc bulge, foraminal narrowing, or moderate degenerative changes. The assumption is that one explains the other. Here’s the thing: that assumption is often wrong. I’m going to say that again because it’s so important: the assumption that […]
Your MRI Shows a Herniated Disc: But Is That What’s Causing Your Pain? Read More »
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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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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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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