My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 1Today, I can move my head to the left and to the right and I can look up and I can look down. But this hasn’t always been the case. For close to a decade the very thought of these movements could be paralyzing and full of pain and...

3 Ways to Maximize your Physical Therapy SessionsWhen companies that operate in big industries like financial services and pharmaceuticals want to update their business models, streamline their market approach or launch a new commercial product, they often turn to the...

My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 2Fast forward a few months….Since that initial day of waking up with excruciating neck pain, the pain ebbed and flowed. But it never went away……ever.   So, the good physical therapist in me decided it was time to see a...

A Quick and Easy Way to Measure Your General FitnessMost people are familiar with heart rate (sometimes called your pulse) — the measure of how fast your heart is beating. For a typical adult: A normal heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Throughout the...

My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 3Welcome to Part Three of my chronic pain story. If you missed out on Part One read it here and Part Two read it here. Over the next few Years I was on a mission to sort out my pain. I went practitioner shopping on a grand scale….I...

Dehydration? Fatigue? Muscle Cramps ExplainedHave you every had a “charley horse”?A painful muscle spasm that can really stop you in your tracks. These cramps can impair athletic performance, cause some serious soreness (sometimes lasting up to 8 hours!) and are just...

My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 4If you missed part one, two, or three be sure to check them out as this is a continuing story. Now on to part four! At this point I was really identifying as being a person with neck pain. All of my Christmas and birthday presents...

Why Cancer Survivors Should ExerciseWe are fortunate to live in a time where improvements in detection and treatment of cancer have resulted in more and more people living meaningful lives after a cancer diagnosis. The National Cancer Institute found that “in 2016,...

Do you NEED Surgery?Recent research is showing that surgery might not be needed as often as we think. A Finnish Degenerative Meniscal Lesion Study Group was published in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing meniscus surgery to sham surgery and concluded that...

Imaging Can Improve Physical Therapy TreatmentPhysical therapists are experts in the musculoskeletal system, and……. typically use patient history and a good physical exam to come to a diagnosis and treatment plan. However, PTs are increasingly using diagnostic imaging...