Uplift Wellness

09/05/2025

09/04/2025

DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED MORE HIP IR??

The biomechanics world is pretty obsessed with it, and for good reason. It's important to access mid stance and for force production, but the model is a bit reductive and makes A LOT of assumptions just based on ROM testing.

I have seen so many people who had "limited IR" in their hips, while simultaneously having facilitated high tone internal rotators. It is entirely possible to be stuck in "too much" compression, limiting your capacity for more IR to move.

The point I want to get across is this: Assessment matters, not every pelvis is posteriorly compressed, and neurological/joint capacity for movement and change of position Trump's the limb arc model.

09/03/2025

STOP STRESSING ABOUT YOUR POSTURE!!!

Focus on being mobile, able to change position (and doing it often), and being as passive as you can be about it.

Of course for some people it can be a contributing factor, but more often than not people stress too much about it and it makes them believe that they need to be in a different position, ALL THE TIME.

Do you stress about your posture? Let us know!

09/02/2025

Don't get caught up with pain and tenderness!

Oftentimes the sight of symptoms is just that, a symptom of something happening elsewhere. And a good way to see if that holds up is having a good clinical auditing process

1)Tightest structures
2)With movement dysfunction or impairment
3)With associated clinical pearls
4)In relation to chief complaint

Sometimes the local is the thing to focus on, other times it's just the area taking the brunt for something happening somewhere else.

09/01/2025

PT AFTER C-SECTIONS ARE NEEDED!

I can't believe I even need to say this as it it's a controversial take, but for some reason it isn't the norm.

I treat moms with Lower back pain in relation to C-Section scars and history all the time.

If you're a soon to be mom, or a mom with an old scar, get the help you need!

Let us know if you're someone who is a candidate for or has had a C-Section!

08/29/2025

MOVEMENT VARIABILITY!

How many options of movement do you have accessible to you? Does your nervous system have a wide range of knowledge of how to manage different positions and loading patterns?

Sometimes this can be a big contributing factor to people's pain experience. Dysfunctional movement is a thing, and if we created strategies that are less efficient, load into specific structures disproportionately more than others, especially in an effort to avoid something that was once painful, that CAN be a recipe for pain to be produced.

By teaching your nervous system that it's safe to change position, safe to re calibrate movement by working through those patterns, and increasing tolerance with load, you can really work through most pain and injury.

So when you're training, train in a wide variety of planes, ranges of motions, joint positions, etc. It will probably be good for you.

08/28/2025

SIGNS YOU'RE MAKING PROGRESS ON YOUR PAIN

Progress on your pain doesn't always mean "it magically disappears in one go". Actually, that isn't common at all. It's typically a gradual process bookmarked by small improvements over time.

Sometimes it means pain drops by 50% from 1 week to the next, others it means the intensity drops from a 8/10 to 5/10.

When dealing with pain, celebrate any and all of the wins. Find empowerment in the fact that you CAN do something to modulate the pain, rather than before when you thought nothing would work.

08/27/2025

YOU'RE NOT ALONE!

The system fails a lot of people, not just you. More often than not you're just another insurance claim and your therapist is forced to do whatever is billable, not what's best. Or you're just another "deep tissue" candidate where the only strategy is to make it feel intense and chase your symptoms around without any clear direction.

But that's not how we roll here at Uplift. We strive to find the root cause of your issues and create a plan of attack based on that by following a clinical auditing process guided by assessment outcomes.

If you're ready for a plan that gives you a long term solution, DM us and we'll get on a call with you!

08/26/2025

Pain and injury can be a scary experience, but they don’t NEED to be. More often than not, people tend to catastrophize things that happen to them, ultimately making the subjective experience worse for them, leading to complicated patterns of pain, antalgic movement, and fear of movement and loading altogether.

This is especially prevalent in people who have chronic pain. As people are going through their journey of pain relief, they can sometimes think that every ache, pain, stiffness, sensation, etc., is something scary or detrimental, often thinking that it is “setting them back” or “that they can never be fixed”. This just isn’t true.

1) Pain is normal, and you are going to have it happen, period. And that is a good thing. It becomes a bad thing when that pain becomes learned and is integrated with your experience of movement, life, etc.

2) Pain is an output from the brain that serves to modulate behavior and give warning signs that: a) something happened and we may have damage
b) This activity is perceived as dangerous and could potentially harm us
c) there is A LOT of load and friction coming here, change what you’re doing
d) this was dangerous (or was seen as dangerous) in the past, lets avoid this

And sometimes it just happens, likely for no good reason at all, and can leave as quickly as it comes in. But the point is that not every sensation means anything is “wrong”. So if you had a day where your sensitivity was higher and you felt stiffer, that’s okay. Especially if that experience is less frequent than normal.

If you can reframe the experience of pain, you may find that it becomes less debilitating and more informative over time.

08/25/2025

OUR 3 PHASE PROCESS!

1) Manage your pain and improve movement
2) Rebuild patterns and confidence
3) Train and get stronger

Making you more resilient when you leave than when you entered.

If you're ready to make changes and find long term solutions to your pain, DM us and we will get you started 🫡

08/22/2025

Is your hip causing your foot pain??

In the past few weeks I've had 3 separate cases where everything in assessment was pointing to their hips being the major driver of their pain/dysfunction in their ankle.

Now this isn't always the case, but you'd be surprised at how much this shows up in people and goes overlooked, leading to a foot and ankle issue that "never got right again".

Take a listen and let us know if this sounds like you!

08/21/2025

The diagnosis you come in with is a snapshot of what is actually going on. In a lot of cases, the diagnosis doesn’t necessarily change the approach. Shoulder Tendinosis? Shoulder Impingement? Bursitis? Arthritis? Frozen Shoulder? They’re all just letting you know what tissue is being affected by potential variables, including motor control, stability, mobility, strength, compensatory/dysfunctional movement patterns, repetitive/misuse stress, etc.

You still need to: Take the history, listen to the person in front of you, understand their relationship with movement and pain, assess their movement, palpate the tissue, do muscle testing, and whatever else you include in your exam/assessment.

Because one person may have an impingement for a very different reason than someone else, despite the name of the condition being the same.

Don’t settle for the textbook answer for your condition. You may need more, you may need less. Or you may not need it at all.