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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.
As a lower back specialist who has worked with thousands of people suffering with lower back pain and having experienced over a year of lower back pain myself and every possible intervention known to man I know for a fact...
Dont’ Be Afraid. I am writing this to patients, and I am writing this to physical therapists. For the patient: Have you had an MRI on your spine that absolutely freaks you out? Here are a couple statistics that could...
Just in case you were wondering what those purple, circular bruises are on Michael Phelps. If you were watching the Olympics this weekend and wondering what’s on Michael Phelps’ shoulder… …and neck… …and back, you are not alone! There’s a...
Why Don’t People Receive Movement Screens as Part of Their Annual Health Exam? Well the easiest blame falls upon the insurances companies as they don’t pay for it. Well they actually do pay for it but it’s called an initial...
Pain Free Motion 2016: Why Does It Hurt When I Exercise? As a physical therapist almost every person who comes to see me is struggling with painful movements. As I have assessed people over the years I have begun to...
By: Andrew Gorecki So what is the lower back designed to do and why do so many people suffer with lower back pain? Let’s talk first about how the lumbar spine is designed with the hopes that this will help...
The Gray Institute (www.GrayInstitute.com) is the authentic source for Applied Functional Science, and is based on 30+ years of education, research, and development of how the body was made to function and how it truly functions. Throughout this time period,...
Our professional “puzzle”…Structure or Function?Lenny Parracino, CMT, NTP, FAFS How often are we faced with a puzzling client/patient? A puzzle is defined as cause to feel confused because we cannot understand or make sense of something. In today’s information age,...
Musculoskeletal diseases affect more than one out of every two persons in the United States age 18 and over, and nearly three out of four age 65 and over. Trauma, back pain, and arthritis are the three most common musculoskeletal...
Is There Hope for Back Pain and Sciatica Sufferers? How We Can Tell if It’s Possible that a Person Can Heal Naturally. When you study the dismal outcomes of lower back surgeries (50% failure rate) I can see how it...
Warning: This chapter gets a bit nerdy and technical. This is most common in people with stenosis or degenerative disc disease. Remember stenosis means narrowing and specifically it means narrowing of the hole where the nerve comes out. But remember...
This is one of my favorite quotes from the guru of movement, Dr. Gary Gray. This is a fact that cannot be denied. Research has proven over and over again that physical training whether it be endurance, flexibility, strength,...
