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What you eat can make you hurt more Feb7th 2018

What you eat can make you hurt more…

How Your Diet Can Make Your Aches and Pains Worse Do you suffer from chronic aches and pains? If so, then you’re not alone. Often times, “mystery” aches and pains are actually caused by localized inflammation in the body, which can occur as a result of overuse or even injury. And while there are anti-inflammatory

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Rehabilitating Tendons Feb5th 2018

“The Princess Bride” Guide to Rehabilitating Tendons

Not long ago, I was teaching a patient with rotator cuff tendinopathy the principles of the rehab program we would be implementing for her physical therapy. After my rather dry presentation of how the rotator cuff tendon is likely degenerated, and how it has lost its tolerance to managing the loads required of it, and

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When yoga's a pain in the butt Jan29th 2018

When yoga’s a pain in the butt

Sometimes, in the midst of doing the best you can do to be healthy, a part of your body begins to aches and pains. This can happen due to unresolved old injuries, increasing your training load too rapidly, or just simple repetitive overstraining of a particular tissue. This latter reason is why yoga is often

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