Be a Detective – Help Us Help You!
We need to know your story to quickly and effectively get to the root cause of your symptoms. Following this guide will help us understand exactly what is going on in your current presentation.
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Vibration Plates – Health and Wellness Benefits
Vibration plates, originally developed for elite athletes and astronauts, have become a staple in fitness and rehabilitation due to their unique approach to training
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Central Sensitization | Health & Wellness | Muscles | Muscles Strains | Musculoskeletal Pain | Osteoarthritis | Pain | Post-Surgical Pain | Posture | Rehabilitation | Uncategorized
Kinesio Tape 101
An Introduction Kinesio tape, first introduced to the world during the 1988 Summer Olympics, has steadily gained popularity over the years. Its initial introduction to the U.S. occurred in March 1995 in Portland, Oregon, at the Northwest Athletic Trainers Association Annual Clinical Symposium. Although it began as a relatively niche tool, the 2008 and 2012…
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Adjunct Treatment Modalities | Fitness | Health & Wellness | Pain | Rehabilitation | Science | Uncategorized
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR): The ultimate shortcut to building muscle?
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) is a technique that uses a medical grade tourniquet around the upper arm or upper leg to restrict blood flow while exercising. I know, this sounds highly unusual! Research has shown that by restricting the blood flow in and blocking the blood flow out of the limb, there is a significant…
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Fitness | Health & Wellness | Manual Therapy | Posture | Rehabilitation | Self Care | Spine | Uncategorized
Our Core: Tensegrity and Spinal Stabilization
Our spinal column serves to protect our nervous system and is an attachment site for the muscles, ligaments, nerves, guts and fascia, it stores kinetic energy and it helps transfer the loads of the body into our base of support. To function effectively, the spinal column needs to be both stiff and flexible at the same time. This dynamic dance of stiffness and flexibility is orchestrated by the brain’s incredible ability to control a symphony of muscles around the spine.
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Foot Structure and Function – Pronation
Some people think that pronation is bad. Pronation is a necessary motion that allows the foot to accommodate to the ground in a way that ideally reinforces stability and allows for a broad transference of force through the entire foot. It isn’t a bad thing. A lack of pronation can be just as detrimental as…
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Headache Causes and Solutions
At least 15% of American adults suffer from moderate-to-severe headaches. The cause is multi-factorial and can be triggered by many things, including: Brain injury/concussion Poor quality of sleep and/or poor sleep posture (i.e. not supporting your head in a neutral alignment while sleeping) Poor posture (slouching while sitting at your computer, constantly looking down at…
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Accelerated Recovery & Superior Results with Laser Therapy
What is Laser Therapy? Low level laser therapy is a technology that uses a combination of light emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers diodes to bathe diseased or traumatized tissues with photons. These particles of energy are selectively absorbed by the cells in your body resulting in a cascade of reactions leading to the restoration of normal…
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Healing Foot Pain – Focus on Function
Your foot is important. It is your base of support. It must be stable enough to support the joints above and transmit force, yet mobile enough to adapt to the ground and provide shock absorption. In my practice I see a lot of people with foot pain and a lot of dysfunctional feet. I don’t…
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Fascia and Training – The Best Way to Improve Mobility
I’ve heard fascia described in many ways, ranging from, ‘’The white stuff on a chicken’, to ‘a body wide tensional network, which consists of all fibrous collagenous soft tissues, whose fibrous architecture is dominantly shaped by tensional strain rather than compression’ (that’s a mouthful!) Fascia is connective tissue – it literally connects and holds together…
