Understanding Muscles, Cartilage, Ligaments, Tendons, Bones, and Nerves and Exploring Healing Times for Each
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Injuries happen.
Some of them like to stick around for much longer than we'd like and we're left scratching our heads trying to remember how long our last injury took to go away and how ...
Your body is a web of connective tissues, which are all connected.Â
When you feel pain in one area, it may actually be due to an injury in a different spot.Â
You’ve got muscular and neural pathways that connect your feet to your head and also link your ankles to your knees and your back.
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We tend to overemphasize healing the site of injury when we're injured - whether that’s a broken finger, a sprained ankle or a herniated disc.Â
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We wrap the thing, we put ointment on the thing, we may ice (or heat) the thing, and then we tend to (over)focus on “the best exercises” to heal the th...
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Did you know that a whopping 18%-35% of Americans are dealing with chronic pain?
That percentage varies, depending on which study you reference.
The worldwide average is around 20%.
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I am the first one to acknowledge how fortunate we are to have western medicine, doctors and drugs to help u...
 If you’ve been dealing with pain for awhile, you’ve probably reached for some type of over-the-counter (otc) pain relievers at some point, right?
Even though you may have a couple of different kinds of drugstore analgesics in our medicine cabinets, your might not be quite sure why you’re taking wh...
You can listen to the Retrain Back Pain Podcast recording of this topic here
After reading the subject line of this article, you might be wondering, "What does accounting have to do with back pain and moving the way I love to move?!"
It's is not all about exercise do's and don'ts
Doing some groun...
Chances are that if your back (or any other body part) hurts, you’ve got some inflammation happening.
When working well, inflammation is a wonderful, natural process that helps your body to heal injuries.
If inflammation sticks around for too long or when your inflammatory system becomes overloade...
How can you stop your back from hurting if you can’t stop hurting your back?
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The number one way to stop your back from hurting is to stop hurting your back.
I don't mean to sound smug, but you know, sometimes the simplest things can have really profound effects
I catch many of my cli
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Reprinted, with permission, from my Australian colleague, Dr. Andrew Locke.
Dr. Andrew's response to the question "Does posture matter?" was intended for the professionals spewing nonsense all over social media on this topic.
Instead of re-writing the whole shebang, I've just added a few [notes in...
Check out these Frequently Asked Questions about the February 3rd to 8th RETRAIN BACK PAIN IN PARADISE Costa Rica Retreat and definitely reach out for more details.
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WHO IS IT FOR?
As one of our registrants said right before signing up, “So this retreat is really for anyone with a back w...
Timecheck: We are in the final days of 2021 and we are two and a half years into this pandemic. For many, back pain is getting worse and back pain relief is hard to come by.
I chose the elephant for this week's image because unspoken health issues that need more attention are like the elephant in t...
Did you know that gravity causes your spine to compress by about fifteen percent during the day?
Did you also know that sitting is notably more compressive for your vertebral column than standing or reclining?
This is generally good to know, but what can you do about it??
Besides getting up and m...
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