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What does Jenga have to do with posture and pain? Find out what lessons a recreational game can teach you.
If you have pain in the hip or leg and find yourself needing a cane, you’ll want to read this nurse’s story. Find out how she got her life back on track.
Just a quick, quick note for a beautiful Saturday in San Diego.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D.
That internal sense that something is going wrong in your body? Don’t ignore it. Address it.
In his e-book, Orthopedics 2.0, regenerative medicine and orthopedic stem-cell doctor Christopher Centeno, M.D. talks about the importance of posture and alignment. To him, repairing joints and helping them regenerate is about more than just injecting stem cells and hoping that the soft tissues simply regrow and heal.
He talks about the necessity of [...]
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~Kenji Miyazawa
I came across this quote last week and found it particularly poignant.
When I was in the worst throes of pain, I used to feel hopeless and helpless. There seemed to be nothing that could be done. The doctor’s orders were [...]
Back in 2003 or 2004, I developed a fun, somewhat inconvenient way to put on and take off t-shirts. I would bend at the waist and use my left arm and the assistance of gravity to wiggle my head in or out of the shirt while guiding my dangling right arm through the sleeve.
You [...]
When thinking about back pain, we have long been trained by the medical system to think about disc and bone abnormalities. If we can just find the disc that’s bulging, we can fix the problem. If we can find the nerve that’s being pressed on by the disc that’s out of place, [...]
With the amazing technological advances in the medical field, it can be hard to remember that not all advances give us what we actually want. In a previous post, I mentioned that medical imaging doesn’t tell you the cause of your back pain. Today, I want to tell [...]
MRIs, though used all the time to “pinpoint” the cause of back pain, has been scientifically shown to be a virtually useless diagnostic tool for people trying to nix the aches in their backs.
Imagine waking up in the morning, putting your foot down on the floor, and feeling like someone had replaced your carpet with a sheet of thumbacks (pointy-side up). That’s roughly what it’s like to have a real good bout of plantar fasciitis. It’s not pleasant, but what’s even less pleasant is the list of standard treatments for it.
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