A colleague of mine Gage Permar, DPT recently posted an excellent blog post about pain medication and some of the unintended consequences. Some of the statistics that he cites are truly frightening. The levels of gastrointestinal complications are especially frightening. Gage alludes to an upcoming post in which he will lay out some alternative to pain meds. […]
Healthcare Spending & Physical Therapy
I would like to talk about the cost of physical therapy at both the individual level and and globally for the health care system. In the USA we live in a country where health care cost are out of control and we are spending more at the individual level. Between 2000 and 2010 the average […]
Best Shoe Options
I get questions all the time about what type of shoes are the best. This is a tricky question because everyone has different feet. The exact type of shoe that fits you best depends on the height of your arch, how mobile your foot is and the presence of any pathologies. Today I want to talk […]
Get rid of your headaches today
There are a couple of things to know about headaches. The first is that headaches are a very common problem. In fact, 90% of Americans suffer from occasional headaches. In my experience, headaches can be one of the most disabling ailments that I treat. The difficult part about headaches is that there is no escaping […]
How are you addressing your mobility issues?
It turns out that recently stretching has become a controversial issue. Popular literature has begun talking about some of the drawbacks of static stretching (New York Times). Static stretching is “traditional stretching” when you hold a position at the end of a range of motion. Recent academic literature questions if stretching prevents injury, decreases muscle […]
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