Millions of people have felt pain in their shoulders at some time. This pain can drastically limit your everyday lifestyle. Many people never know if their shoulder injuries are severe or if they are minor injuries. If you have had a shoulder injury you may have been told to get surgery for it or get a shot for it and I will discuss when is the right time to get surgery for a shoulder injury and when is the right time to manage the injury with exercise and physical therapy. If you have been told you have a partial thickness tear you may not know what that means or what your recovery path will look like. All these unknowns with shoulder pain can be scary. I want to take the fear out of shoulder injuries for you and I hope you learn more about what injury you may be dealing with and what tests to do to determine if surgery is needed or not. Sit back and enjoy this Podcast on shoulder and rotator cuff injuries.

Most people that have tightness in their legs are limited with the ability to extend their hips back when walking. our normal walking movements require that our hips move into extension. If we are unable to move our hips into extension with walking we run into him flexor tightness, weakness in glutes and overall worsening with low back pain when walking. What if I told you altering your walking form and working on hip extension could stop all that low back pain with walking. if you are someone who has been feeling pain walking in your low back and know your legs are tight and you sit a lot then this Podcast is for you. Sit back and enjoy learning why and how you can improve your low back pain with walking.

If you have felt with low back pain from lifting you are not alone. one of the most common causes of low back pain is lifting objects too heavy with poor form. your ability to lift properly will be the difference from chronic low back pain and safe strengthening without worrying about injuring your low back. Take a listen and learn how to lift without hurting your low back.

We maintenance our cars, our AC units, and our household appliances, but we do not maintenance our bodies. In todays podcast I discuss the importance of body maintenance and recovery. I will discuss the six most important aspects to body maintenance to allow for a pain free happy healthy life. If you are not getting adequate sleep, not eating healthy foods or not staying active injury and pain will be a common issue you deal with in life. If you are having issues with getting healthy this Podcast is a great place to start to outline your plan to getting your body healthy again and enjoying your life to the fullest.

Neck pain can be caused my many things, and if your neck pain is worse at different times of the day there is a reason for that. I discuss in this Podcast what are the most common causes of neck pain depending when your symptoms are at their worst. Learn what morning, afternoon, or evening neck pain means and how to solve it. there are different recommendations I have depending on when your neck hurts the most. If you have had a long history of neck pain and have not had successful results than give this a listen and learn how we can help improve your neck pain and get you back to enjoying a life without your neck interfering.

One of the most important muscles groups in your body for movement is your Glutes. From getting up from a chair to walking and not falling over your glutes play a vital role for all these functional tasks in life. If you have dealt with low back pain there is a good chance your glutes are nor working properly and will set you up for future low back pain issues until your glutes are working again properly. Sit back and enjoy leaning how important your Butt is to your everyday life and how challenging life can be without properly working glutes.

One of the major reasons for injuries lingering for long durations at a time and sometimes never fully getting better is due to a problem with the healing process. The process of healing is a multistage process that cannot work unless every phase is finished properly. If we don't properly get from one phase of healing to the next, or do not do the correct things in each phase we can get stuck. When you are stuck that is when chronic issues tend to never get better. In todays Podcast I will discuss the healing process and what goes on in each phase of healing. If you have been dealing with an injury for a long time or have had surgery and never got fully better after this Podcast is for you.

One of the easiest ways to begin exercise is to walk. it is something you can do at any age in any place and it is extremely beneficial to your physical health and your mental health. walking can be done when you want to and for as long as you want to. In this Podcast I will discuss some of the major health benefits you get from walking as well as other benefits you may have not thought as beneficial from walking. The Beginning walking goal should be either time walking to steps walked. start with 10 min walk and process as you feel comfortable, and or try and get 6,000 steps a day on average and work your way up to 10,000 steps a day. getting this step number in daily drastically reduces all risks of mortality and also improves overall mental health and enjoyment of life.

Shoulder injuries are very common. Both young and old can deal with rotator cuff injuries. Surgery is needed a lot of the times and re-tears are not uncommon after surgery. if you have been plagued with shoulder pain and repeated rotator cuff issues you are not alone. I see this problem weekly in my clinic, and the main issue causing it is improper mobility and stability to the shoulder blade. the shoulder blade is responsible for 1/3 of your shoulder mobility and can cause a lot of problems in the shoulder joint if it is not moving and stabilized properly. In this Podcast I will go down the scapula stabilization road and discuss what muscles need to be stretched, which muscles need to be strengthened, and how to get your brain to turn them on with shoulder movement to limit future injuries.

In todays Podcast I will outline treatment plans for three different patients I have seen in the last two months who were all dealing with a different type of neck pain. some felt headache issues with neck pain some had numbness down into their hands. the thing that was common for all of them is that they had positive outcomes with less pain and improvement in activities of daily living. If you or someone you know has felt with neck pain and possibly headaches without relief this Podcast is for you. enjoy learning how we helped these people with neck pain.