If you remember, last month I described a patient’s experience after having a trauma to her left hip 7 years ago. After getting only temporary relief with both chiropractic, and physical therapy intervention, she began to practice yoga only to find that it seemed to provoke her pain instead of ease it. Two exam findings
She’d been having left hip pain for seven years now, ever since a fall on her left side while snowboarding. “I landed so hard, it made my teeth rattle!” she said, “And I was just getting good at it!” she added remorsefully. And even though she’d tried various treatments over the years, the problem remained.
I get all types of patients in my practice, and hear all sorts of stories on how people injure their bodies in the course of living an active life. Just a few weeks ago, a 55 year old nurse came in with left knee pain which her doctor had diagnosed as a sprain. When I
