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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.

Bone-on-Bone: Dispelling the Hip Pain Myth

Watch the Video below, or by CLICKING HERE.   On a daily basis, I hear people with hip pain say they just got an X-ray or an MRI and a surgeon told them they have “bone on bone”, and they...

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Keys to Finding the Cause of Hip Pain

In today’s blog, we want to cover the keys to understanding the root causes of hip pain and the difference between the root cause and the diagnosis you might get from your doctor--things like arthritis, bursitis, labral tears, strains.  ...

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Stretching and Relief of Constipation and Incontinence

We’ve been talking this month about the many health benefits of stretching, but did you realize that stretching helps constipation and incontinence as well? It’s true. A new study that came out from Beth Israel Medical Center shows that stretching...

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New Research: Stretching Reduces Perception of Pain

Today we're talking about how stretching can help with pain and what current research says about stretching and pain relief.    Watch the video below, or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HIp2NnObhiY    At Superior, we know that the right kind of stretching...

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Five Health Benefits of Stretching

If you are looking to improve your health, you should consider the benefits of stretching.  We all know stretching before a workout is a good idea, but research shows there are other benefits too. A research article published by the...

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Acute or Cumulative Hip Trauma, Which Do You Have?

In this post Dr. Gorecki, hip pain specialist, discusses the difference between an acute trauma disorder and a cumulative trauma disorder. One heals on its own, the other gets worse over time. Watch the Video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/AjJYWLngOKI In this...

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The Single Biggest Mistake Hip Pain Sufferers Make

Dr. Andrew Gorecki, hip pain specialist, discusses the most common and significant mistake that people make who are dealing with hip issues. How can we handle hip pain as a problem? The first thing we can do is ignore it....

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What You Need to Know about X-Rays and MRI's and Hip Pain

Today we're going to talk about what your MRI or X-ray really means as it relates to hip pain and diagnosing hip conditions. You might be surprised that those images don’t mean as much as you think they do in...

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Great News for Hip Pain Sufferers

In today’s post, we're going to be talking about the three most common hip joint diagnoses, two of which are mistakenly attributed to hip pain. Osteoarthritis is the most common and is also known as “joint space narrowing”, “degenerative joint disease”, and (my least favorite name) “bone on bone”.  I’ll talk more about “bone on bone” later. The number two most common diagnosis is hip bursitis, and number three is a labral tear.

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A Perfect Blueprint for Hip Arthritis Pain Relief

Dr. Andrew Gorecki, Physical Therapist and Hip Pain Expert, shares the exact blueprint he uses for hip arthritis pain relief for thousands of people each year relieve hip pain naturally without medications, injections or surgeries. If you would like to...

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Secrets Great Golfers Wish They Knew

Click here to watch the Video:  https://youtu.be/G6IzDAAZKOM Today we're going to be talking about two more common golf injuries. As we talked about in last week’s blog, the most common golf injury is low back pain. That affects a lot...

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Startling Scientific Data Against Back Surgery

Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6PQmblgv62w In this blog post, we’re going to discuss some scientific studies regarding treatment for disc herniations, also called disc bulges. Disc Herniations or Bulging Discs Disc herniations (or disc bulges) are a main category...

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