The Pain Stops Here

08/27/2022

Tail wagging the dog

12/26/2020

04/27/2020

Dance Informa speaks with Sue Mayes and Andrew Pilcher, two leading dance specialist physiotherapists, about stretching for dancers.

04/23/2020

10 reps and I'm done for the week

03/06/2020

Proprioception - Interoception, what's the difference?

One of the primary benefits of massage therapy is that it stimulates the nerve endings in the myofascia, leading to a greater sense of interoception—a perception of what is felt within the body. Al…

02/27/2020

https://youtu.be/OHt8bYsX6Zk

02/05/2020

This boy was colorblind in certain colors his entire life. After the NRT Brain Reset was performed for a few seconds, he had full-color vision. Here is his t...

02/04/2020

11/26/2019

Nailed it!

The science behind why pain is painful.

11/18/2019

Ask, listen, read and weigh the potential risks to your tendons before receiving these antibiotics

Ciprofloxacin AKA Cipro
Levofloxacin AKA Levaquin
Moxifloxacin AKA Avelox
Ofloxacin AKA Floxin
Gemifloxacin AKA Factive
Norfloxacin AKA Noroxin

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10/23/2019

I concure with Mark Carangelo's observations.

"This is why I believe
1 we can't influence psoas safely
2 do we actually want to release a stabilizer muscle long lever

I have not attempted to massage, release or stretch this muscle in about 10 years and I will continue to not attempt this maneuver"

09/29/2019

Heading downtown to set up the massage tent.
3000+ athletes +35 massage therapists +16 tables equals how many massages? A record in the past 10 years tops 500 massages. We’ll see.

09/10/2019

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ARTHRITIS AND BACK PAIN
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The prevalence of back pain increases as we get toward mid age, and then it slowly decreases as we get older (graphically represented by a bell curve).
The prevalence of arthritis is relatively low in our 20’s, but will gradually increase over time (follows a linear progression over time).
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What this means?
The correlation between arthritis and low back pain is poor. You can present with no back pain and imaging that shows moderate-severe arthritis; or you can present with severe back pain and imaging with no arthritis.
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Can you have back pain and arthritis?
Yes. But it is important to understand arthritis is a normal part of aging. It can be a contributor to back pain, but it is only one piece of the puzzle. Always multiple factors to consider.
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📚 Videman T et al. Associations between back pain history and lumbar MRI findings. 2003.

08/29/2019

I rolled my ankles (inversion ankle sprained) more times than I can remember during my twenty year professional dance career.

What I do remember was the guidelines of R.I.C.E. contained in my copy of the SportsMedicine Book written by Dr. Mirkin. I've done a 180 on my opinion (so has Dr. Mirkin) and the advice I pass on to my clients about the "I" in RICE.

I've witnessed numerous clients, athlete or non-athlete, return to their training, sport, or simply walking the next day or within days of ditching aggressive icing. Making sure to rule out serious injury, adding pain free movement is the key to allowing the lymph system to do its thing. Swelling is greatly reduced, mobility returns and pain levels decrease. You may not be 100%, but weight bearing and walking by the next day is not a surprise.

After twisting my ankle during a performance, my regime of twenty plus minutes of icing with my leg elevated and static, did nothing more than guarantee me a swollen, painful and immovable ankle. The crazy thing was, I would continue to ice to get the swelling down, when in fact, the ice was shutting down my lymph systems ability to clean up the damage. The first stage of healing is inflammation. You have to experience this stage to heal. So control pain, but remember that aggressive icing and anti-inflammatories stymies the body's ability to do what it does as the first response to injury...the inflammation process.

David Koch was incredibly gifted, both genetically and financially, and became a chemical engineer, businessman, political activist, and philanthropist.  With one of his brothers, he grew a vast inheritance into joint ownership of Koch Industr ...

08/23/2019

One of many interesting blurbs explored in this PainScience article speaks volumes to all of my clients walking in the door with muscle relaxers as the medical professionals solution and first line of defense when dealing with their muscle pain (with NO success).

"Muscle Relaxant...It sounds like such a great idea. Unfortunately, muscle relaxants are amazingly ineffective. The only kind of muscle relaxant that is over-the-counter is methocarbamol (Robaxin, etc), and they mostly cannot outperform a placebo in tests.2425 Even a prescription muscle relaxant like carisoprodol is so ineffective that patients will (this is bizarre) actually tense up if they are lied to and told that the drug is a stimulant.26 Clearly the brain is the boss of your muscle tone."

“Spasm,” as in a “back spasm,” is an informal, non-specific term often used to “explain” musculoskeletal pain.

08/20/2019

Some back humour to start your day.