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Feb 12, 2025
Why a Physical Therapist Is Your Best First Stop for Shoulder Pain
Most people with a sore shoulder start with a GP appointment, a scan, or three weeks of waiting to see whether it settles. All three are reasonable…
Aug 24, 2023
Generic Diagnoses and Steroid Shots: Why Physical Therapy Works Better for Shoulder Pain
“It is probably bursitis. Here is a cortisone shot. Come back if it still hurts.” If that is roughly how your shoulder appointment went…
Aug 1, 2023
The Pitfalls of DIY Exercises for Shoulder Pain
There are thousands of shoulder exercise videos online and some of them are genuinely good. The problem is not the exercises. It is that you have no…
Jul 12, 2023
Shoulder Clicking and Popping During Weight Training
A shoulder that clicks under a barbell is one of the most common things lifters ask us about, and the answer is genuinely reassuring more often than…
Sep 26, 2022
Why Is Physical Therapy Best for Shoulder Pain?
Because a shoulder rarely hurts for the reason it appears to, and physical therapy is the only option on the list that starts by finding out.
Sep 17, 2022
Shoulder Pain and Wanting to Avoid Surgery
If somebody has mentioned surgery and you are hoping to avoid it, the useful thing to know is that you usually have more room to try than you have…
Mar 16, 2023
Shoulder Pain in High School Volleyball: How Physical Therapy Can Save Your Season
Volleyball asks a teenager to swing overhead at full speed a few hundred times a week. Shoulders complain about that, and the complaint is usually…
Apr 24, 2023
Take Control of Your Knee Pain: Relief and Recovery at Home
If your knee has flared up, there are useful things you can do today. There is also a limit to how far they go, and knowing where that limit sits…
Apr 18, 2023
How Force Plate Assessment Can Benefit CrossFit Athletes
CrossFit asks you to squat, pull, press, run and land, often in the same session and often when you are already tired. Small asymmetries that go…
Apr 17, 2023
Fit or Folly? The Risk of Overuse Injuries in Running and Sports
Almost nobody gets injured doing something obviously stupid. Most overuse injuries arrive during a period when someone was training well, feeling…
Feb 27, 2023
Is It Growing Pains or an Overuse Injury?
Every parent of a teenage athlete has to make this call at some point, usually at 9pm when their kid mentions their knee hurts again. The distinction…
Dec 14, 2022
How to Keep Active and Do the Things You Love
Your body is a machine, and it is the only one you own that cannot be traded in. Most of us maintain our cars more carefully.
Sep 17, 2022
A Senior Fitness Program Built Around You
Most exercise advice for older adults is either far too general to be useful or far too intense to be safe. Neither answers the actual question…
Sep 25, 2023
Why You Should Not Self-Treat Vertigo
If the room spins when you roll over in bed, there is a good chance your problem is mechanical, specific, and fixable in a small number of visits…
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