Health blog Category: injury prevention
What REALLY is Sciatica?
Have you ever heard of sciatica? It’s quite for a patient to come into the clinic saying they are suffering from sciatica. However, in most cases, this is NOT actually what’s going on with them.
The term sciatica tends to be thrown around and not many people have a true understanding what it is and what is actually causing their symptoms. If you were to google your symptoms:
- pain that goes down my leg to my feet
- numbness in the leg
- tingling in my leg
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Read full blogStiffness, Tightness When Reaching Overhead?
Many people at some point during their lives will experience episodes of shoulder pain or stiffness. Quite frequently, a subsequent scan of the internet or a visit to the doctor will conclude with a vague diagnosis of ‘rotator cuff tendonitis’ or ‘impingement.’ While these words may or may not reflect the correct cause of the painful symptoms, many people do not know the meaning of these terms.
What actually causes these conditions, how are they treated and how are they prevented?
Read full blogKnee Injuries Don’t Just Occur In Sports
Whether it is sports related or just degenerative changes that occur as you age, at one point or another you have probably experienced a knee injury. Some of the most common injuries are osteoarthritis, ligament injuries and meniscus injuries. All of these cause pain, weakness in your knees and a decrease your ability to participate in some activities.
Ligament injuries more commonly occur with the more active patient population.
Sports such as soccer and basketball that involve jumping, planting of the leg, or a change in direction can cause ACL tears.
How Strengthening Programs can Help You
Typically there will be no immediate effect to you not having the proper strength in a particular muscle in your body. The effects are usually more long term in the sense that “weakness” or lack of proper strength in an area results in excess friction on the bones in the joint, excessive wear and tear on tendons and cartilage around a joint, and more. This is why things like tendonitis get started. Let’s look at shoulder tendonitis as an example.
Read full blogHow to determine if We Have Plantar Fasciitis
Many of us may have or of had Plantar Fasciitis, and we are not alone! It is one of the more common foot injuries people experience. The pain can be caused by injury or an insidious onset. Some of the most common symptoms include stabbing or dull pain on bottom of our foot or by our heel, many times greater in the morning. We may also feel or notice that the tissue on the bottom of our foot is tender to touch.
Read full blogFeel a Pinching Sensation in Our Shoulder…
One common shoulder issue we may have experienced is called impingement. This is when the muscles of our rotator cuff become subjected to repeated pinching in between the rounded head of the humerus bone and the acromion process, a bony prominence from the shoulder blade that forms a roof over top of the ball and socket joint. Initially, this pinching may only be a discomfort or may not even produce pain, but with repetition, our rotator cuff muscles will become inflamed.
Read full blogRelieving Joint Stiffness
Joint stiffness may be just a nuisance at first, but if left untreated it can begin to affect your daily activities such as reaching up into the cabinets or squatting down to pick up something off the floor. The scary thing is it can creep up on you slowly and you don’t even realize you are now using your left arm to do tasks that you’ve used your right arm for your entire life or you are asking your kids to pick up the grocery bag from the ground because its too hard to squat down.
Read full blogWhy are Strength and Balance so Important?
Why is Strength and Balance so important?
Strength is directly correlated to balance because of the benefits it has on body mechanics and joint strength. As you age, you want to continue to build muscle mass to reduce the stress on your bones and joints. The more strength you have surrounding the joints, the more support they will have in your daily activities and the less you will feel the wear and tear you put on your body.
Are Your Hips Affecting Your Back?
Believe it or not, your hips play a large role in the health of your back and limited hip mobility can cause back pain. Do you have an aching back at the end of the day and wonder where the source of your pain is coming from? You are not alone! More than 80 percent of the population will suffer from back pain at least once in their life, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control.
Read full blogReasons For Neck Pain
Think about how many hours you spend at your desk at work, how often you look down at your cell phone or computer, or how often you play video games, as well as time you spend relaxing in front of the TV. What you may not realize is how all of this affects your posture. Over time, these repetitive tasks put us into a position called forward head posture, in which your head and neck protrude forward into a flexed position.
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