A lot of people have their favorite pain killers. But if you like being able to breathe well, you might want to take a quick look in your medicine cabinet and see if any of your favorite pain killers happens to be acetaminophen.
Find out why acetaminophen’s side effects might make you gasp.
Every week, we witness a lot of amazing successes at Upright Health. We see people beat their pain and regain control of their lives, but sometimes people don’t believe us when we tell them about it!
So we’re asking our clients: what is your favorite exercise and what does it do for you? Post your [...]
Did stress take its toll on you in 2011? Did it scatter your brain or sit on your shoulders? Does stress always go straight to your back and shoulders no matter how often you do your postural exercises?
If you’d like to learn to how to control stress on a daily basis with simple, practical, [...]
The most common myth you hear out in the world about knee osteoarthritis is that running and jogging is what does you in. “It’s all the shock,” doctors say. “It’s just too much wear and tear,” friends say. Did you know that this conventional wisdom is actually wrong?
We recently posted a link on our [...]
In May of 2006, I had a breast augmentation procedure done. I was 25 at the time, and I had long been self-conscious about my breast size. The surgery went off without a hitch, and I was happy with this “better” version of myself. I have always been active and athletic, so I went right [...]
MRI’s are powerful diagnostic tools. You can see the insides of the body in great detail. But how reliable are they? One doctor gathered 31 pain-free professional baseball pitchers for a study to see what MRI’s would determine about the health of their shoulders. Find out whether the MRIs got on base, knocked it out of the park, or just plain fouled out.
We live in an age where computers run everything. Behind the scenes, there are brilliant computer programmers creating systems that help them run everything. One such programmer, Tony, came in several months back because of tightness all over his body, particularly in his hamstrings. He felt like his tightness was making his back and shoulders [...]
Okay, so not really “run,” but skate. This video is the answer to one of the questions I hear the most often, and it’s one of the questions I think most deserves an answer.
“How did you end up doing this, Matt?”
Watch this video and find out!
Happy Labor Day Everyone!
On behalf of Upright Health, I hope you’re not working today and have some plans to enjoy this long weekend!
Today is a working day at Upright Health — and not just for me! For those who haven’t heard about or seen her yet, Maryann Berry has joined the Upright Health [...]
Just wanted to share another client’s story of her shoulder pain and how quickly it changed when she started training her body to move properly again. She had had shoulder pain for 2 years before finally coming in to Upright Health (once she was frustrated with all the pills her doctor had been recommending).
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“Matt is an excellent therapist. He gives you the same careful, thoughtful attention each and every time you meet with him. He is great at listening to your feedback and adjusting your personalized exercises to address your particular needs. Within a few days of following Matt’s strange stretching routine, the lower back pain that had been my constant companion had almost completely disappeared. I can even see an improvement in my own torso when I look in the mirror. I continue to be amazed when, at the end of each day I realize that I went pain-free again. It shouldn’t be this easy.”
~Rulon J., CPAFEATURED POSTS ON POSTURE AND PAIN
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