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The best place to manage pain and feel stronger. We help active individuals get out of pain, move better, and feel confident in their abilities
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Chronic pain isn’t normal. Stop guessing, start progressing

10/22/2025

Going the insurance route with chronic pain. oftentimes doesn't work.

Unfortunately, he way the model is built out doesn't benefit a lot of people who are in chronic pain. Oftentimes people with chronic pain have a lot of contributing factors towards their pain, usually have psychological and sociological aspects to it, and oftentimes need to have a more holistic approach than the insurance model can handle.

Here are the three biggest things that I found that people in chronic pain experienced to other places that didn't help them get better.

1) Treating the Location of the pain vs Root cause
2) What's billable vs what's better
3) Mill business model vs. cash based model

Does this sound familiar to you? Have you had this kind of experience when dealing with your chronic pain?

10/21/2025

PART 2: 3 steps to work through chronic pain (fear avoidant edition)

A big component of chronic pain is fear avoidance of movement. Basically, as you experience the pain, you become fearful of certain movements, avoiding them completely, decreasing your tolerance for that movement and increasing the likelihood of pain being the response.

In this 2 part series we talk about chronic pain, it's fear avoidant nature, and how we walk through it!

Today we go over some important steps when working With people who have fear avoidance of movement in relation to their pain.

Have you considered these steps when working through your own pain? Let us know in the comments below!

10/20/2025

PT.1: 3 steps to work through chronic pain (fear avoidant edition)

A big component of chronic pain is fear avoidance of movement. Basically, as you experience the pain, you become fearful of certain movements, avoiding them completely, decreasing your tolerance for that movement and increasing the likelihood of pain being the response.

In this 2 part series we talk about chronic pain, it's fear avoidant nature, and how we walk through it!

10/17/2025

"I just want to feel normal"

A statement I hear from a lot of people that have been let down by HCP's, clinicians, coaches, trainers, surgeons, etc.

Unfortunately, at some point in the typical care model it became the norm to take agency away from individuals, make them feel permanently reliant on someone, tell them that there is no hope to recover, and to do all of that in the 15 minutes that you're with each other.

Sound familiar?

This is the typical story of people that we work with here at Uplift. Whether they were ignored and not listened to by their doctor, pushed to the side to sit on heat and do the same exercise everyone else is doing at PT, or doing the same adjustment 3x a week for 6 months at their chiro.

If you're reading this and feel this internally - THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE YOUR NORM. I have the pleasure to help people like this daily. I want you to know that in almost every case, there is something you can do to improve your situation. The only way you can guarantee to not have that happen is to subscribe to the belief that there is no hope.

It may not be 100% better, but you can probably get to 20%, 30%, even 50% better. It just takes a plan, collaboration, and a relentless pursuit to keep on trying.

10/16/2025

The typical journey here at Uplift!

If you've ever wondered what it looks like from start to finish, this is a good overview of the Uplift experience.

From intro call to graduation, your journey is one that's individual to you with the sole purpose of helping you feel less pain and more confident than before.

Most plans stop too early, aren't specific to you, focus on symptoms rather than root causes, leaving you lost and confused. Our goal is to provide insight, get to the root issue, provide you with life long tools to manage your pain, feel confident, and be stronger than before.

If this sounds like what you've been needing, book an intro call with us. We are booking evals for November to start your plan in December so your new year can start strong 💪🏻

10/15/2025

Case Sudy: Pseudo Sciatica!

Sciatica is one of the most overly used terms in describing pain in the back/lower extremity ever.

I had a client come in that has a history of sciatica diagnosis and back pain that was dormant for many years, but recently got aggravated due to increased activity and work.

Based on the description of pain that he explained from the past, it sounds like it could've been true sciatica like pain, but this time around it was a bit different.

In the past he had nerve pain in his calf and foot and weakness in the leg, which lines up with a true sciatica presentation (where the sciatic nerve specifically gets aggravated)

This time around it was different. It was mostly a deep ache/sharp pain in the lateral hip/glute, as well as a sunburn like feeling along the lateral thigh down to the knee. Very different from sciatica.

After further assessment, it seemed to line up more and more that a different nerve was being entrapped - the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. And we ended up finding things that would confirm that more and more. The whole lumbar plexus comes out around, through, under, and over the psoas muscle. Palpation showed it to be incredibly high in tone and very sensitive, as well as weak. Using NKT Joint compression/decompression protocol, we found that the L psoas was facilitated in hip joint compression, inhibiting his glute max. After a few rounds of treatment, we were able to decrease the pain and sensitivity and improve some testing.

The next time he came in he reported that most of the pain had gone away aside from a few other things, of which we discovered other findings for.

There is a likelihood that if I didn't have the skill set, I would've assumed it was sciatica (because in the past it may have been) and done a treatment based on that. But knowing the typical presentation of it, listening for clinical pearls, having a clinical auditing process, I was able to narrow down more of what was actually going on.

Stop Guessing, Start Progressing with us at Uplift LMT Wellness.

10/14/2025

Importance of SLS Assessment

Single Legged Stance is an incredibly useful assessment for Lower Extremity and Core related issues. This is all because it gives us insight into one of the most important parts of gait cycle: Midstance. Midstance makes up 40-60% of the time that we spend loaded into the stance leg when we're walking. In midstance we are supporting the full weight of our body on that one leg. Because we spend time on one leg for such a large portion of gait, using a SLS to assess how someone centrates their femur under load can give you great insights on where to start investigating their movement and pain.

It's one of the reasons why we look at it so much - we should probably learn more about your strategy for loading when you're on one leg (which happens every single step you take)

Here are some insights into my own SLS as I had some pain and discomfort in my Left shin/knee over the last few days.

10/13/2025

Not everything needs to be stretched or cracked!!
ALWAYS ASSESS AND DON'T GUESS.

One of the best things that I learned from is that not everything needs to be stretched/pressed on. In that same name, your joints don't always need to be cracked either.

Joints can both be compressed and decompressed - the surfaces of the joints are stuck in approximation and don't have the ability to de-approximate, OR the surfaces are de-approximated and don't have the ability to approximate.

Fortunately there are ways to assess this to confirm what state the joint tends towards, because when left on their own for a long time, what starts as a local issue can quickly become a global one.

Think of it this way - in movement you want there to be a continuum of joint states - both approaching and leaving a compressed or decompressed states depending on the part of gait you're in, movement you're doing, etc. If you have a joint that doesn't have the ability to leave one of those positions, it likely means it isn't moving as much as it could, causing you to seek a strategy elsewhere. Something that was once a local issue now starts to spread outwardly, becoming a systemic one.

The moral of the story is this: just because a joint has pain, has tight structures around it, doesn't move well, makes a lot of sound, doesn't mean it needs to be adjusted. Maybe it needs a compressive strategy instead.

10/10/2025

Success story!

1) Listen and learn more about their history
2) Assess what's going on - never guess
3) Create a plan that focuses on managing their pain, rebuilding movement and confidence, and getting stronger than before

So glad we get to help people feel better about their pain. It really is the reason why we are here!

10/09/2025

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: what it is and what it isn't

There is often a quick jump to it as the cause of grip weakness and numbness/tingling in the hand, but there is more to the picture. The location of your symptoms are extremely important to help determine spots where the nerve may be affected. If you're noticing numbness on the palm of the hand, it may not be a carpal tunnel issue!

Listen to the post and let us know if this sounds like you!

10/08/2025

Coaching and resiliency -

One of our favorite parts of working with people is helping them become stronger and more confident in how they move through strength. As we progress through the bulk of managing pain and rebuilding movement and confidence, we do things that help people get stronger and understand how to load themselves.

One of the most common things we hear from people's experiences elsewhere is that they felt like they weren't prepared on how to exercise or move things given their history of injury and/or pain. It's why we love spending time on this with people - it gives power back to them to feel strong on their own.

If you feel like you've been missing this in your pain journey, we get it. It's why we focus so much on it. We'd love to have a conversation to see how we can help you.

10/07/2025

Grip findings and what they mean!!

Grip gives a lot of information on what may be going on in your neck and upper extremity. Depending on which fingers are weak, if it's both sides or 1, if it is primarily when your hand is above head or below, your approach to remedy it will be different.

If you have any grip weakness, give this video a watch and let us know what you find!

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