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Learn about common pain-causing health conditions, their progression paths, their causes, and effective treatment options. Our blog offers valuable information to people who experience pain and anyone who wishes to learn more about long-lasting, safe, and noninvasive treatments.

These articles also explain how Superior Physical Therapy addresses these common health problems through an innovative approach called the Superior Method. This approach aims to accurately identify the underlying cause of pain in order to develop a more tailored and collaborative treatment plan.

How to Test the Cause of Your Hip Pain

Today we are going to shed some light on where your hip pain is coming from, show you a very quick 30 second self-test so you can check your hip function, and go over some of the common causes of...

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Knee Pain Causes and Quick Relief Exercises

by Dr. Andrew Gorecki, DPT, Owner of Superior Physical Therapy If you're out there struggling with knee pain, and you're looking for a natural solution, and you want to avoid injections medications and surgery this article from the Pain-free Living...

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Stenosis and Sciatica, plus Quick Exercises to Relieve Your Back Pain

Today we're talking about the most common type of low back pain called stenosis. Stenosis is also known by other names, most commonly arthritis, and the big scary one – degenerative disc disease. Between each segment of the spine there's...

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Meet Dr. Drew O'Donnel

Dr. Drew O’Donnel graduated from The University of Toledo in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science. He then continued at The University of Toledo where he received his Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy. He moved to Traverse City...

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Free Workshop: HOW TO RELIEVE SHOULDER PAIN NATURALLY

Traverse City, MI FREE WORKSHOP TO RELIEVE SHOULDER PAIN NATURALLY. We can stop your shoulder pain and keep it away. Get shoulder pain relief! What You're Going To Learn The single worst position in which to sleep that causes BIG...

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StretchME - Assisted Stretching for Wellness in Traverse City, MI

StretchMe is a unique wellness concept, offering one-on-one and group assisted stretching for increased mobility and better movement, so you can enjoy life to the fullest. StretchMe is the most remarkably simple thing you can do to move and feel...

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Pain Free Run Traverse City

Attention Traverse City Runners: Learn How To Heal Your Tortured, Crippled Bodies and Improve Your Performance In Less Than An Hour… Limited to 30 seats…When you’re training for a race do you feel like you’re not going to make it...

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Injections / Replacement Not Best for Knee Pain

Risks Associated with Injections and Knee Replacement The number one reason doctors and surgeons recommend injections or a knee replacement is knee pain combined with an image that indicates osteoarthritis. But this assessment is often simplistic in nature and these...

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Strong Evidence Against Arthroscopy for Knee OA or Meniscal Tears

For patients with knee pain, the small, short-term gains in pain and function from arthroscopy are greatly outweighed by the “burden, postoperative limitations, and rare serious adverse effects” associated with the surgery, write the authors of a new clinical practice...

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How to Avoid Four Back Pain Treatment Rip-offs

HAZARDOUS IMAGES: Why You Do Not Need—or Want—an MRI According to JAMA, the proportion of patients who left their doctors’ appointments with orders for MRIs increased from 7.2 percent in 1999 to 11.3 percent in 2010. As a result, the...

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Guide to Hip Pain Relief: Part 5

Four Steps to Hip Pain Relief 1. Stop ignoring or altering the problem. The single biggest mistake hip pain sufferers make is ignoring the problem. Often, this is in the hopes that the problem will simply go away as time...

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Guide to Hip Pain Relief: Part 4

The Importance of Value and Choice in Hip Pain Relief and Treatment Value is defined as considering (someone or something) to be important or beneficial; having a high opinion of. Physical therapy should be considered of high value to you...

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