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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.

Dissecting The Facts About Lower Back Pain

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...

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Is There Hope For Back Pain and Sciatica Suffers?

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...

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Why is walking making my lower back hurt?

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...

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Random Exercise Produces Random Results

  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,...

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Top 10 Answers To Knee Pain

Joining us for Saturday's Knee Pain Workshop? These 10 answers to frequent questions will help you a ton! Not joining us? Why not?! Event starts at 10a at 3899 W. Front Street. Click here to join us! 1. What do...

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Life As A Low Back Pain Sufferer

The healthcare system in the United States for lower back pain right now is just simply not good enough.  If you look at the statistics, they are overwhelming.  Right now we see that over 265 million prescriptions last year were...

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Do You Know What Inflammation Really Is?

Inflammation is defined as a localized protective response elicited by injury or destruction of tissues which serves to destroy, dilute or wall off the injurious agent and the injured tissues.  The inflammatory response can be provoked by physical, chemical and...

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Is The MRI Lying To You?

I want to make it known that in order to fix lower back pain and find a real permanent solution, an MRI and an x-ray is not necessary.   In fact, I would argue that it actually make the outcomes for...

Read More

The #1 Most Important Step in Relieving Low Back Pain

The #1 Most Important Step in Relieving Low Back Pain- Is Getting The Correct Information Over the past 6 months we have been hosting totally free lower back pain workshops at our clinic the last Saturday of each month.  We...

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How Does Balance Effect My SI Joint?

I was recently having a conversation with a physical therapy assistant who works in a local well meaning, yet very “conventional,” physical therapy practice. Since coming to work with us as a patient, we have had many conversations discussing the principles, strategies,...

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Is Sleep The Most Important Element of Low Back Pain?

This morning I woke up with the first thought of how great I slept last night.  This is a rare event for me lately with a business to run, patients to treat, a toddler who sometimes sleeps all night and...

Read More

Why Is Walking Making My Lower Back Hurt?

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...

Read More
Dissecting The Facts About Lower Back Pain

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...

Read More
Is There Hope For Back Pain and Sciatica Suffers?

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...

Read More
Why is walking making my lower back hurt?

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...

Read More
Random Exercise Produces Random Results

  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,...

Read More
Top 10 Answers To Knee Pain

Joining us for Saturday's Knee Pain Workshop? These 10 answers to frequent questions will help you a ton! Not joining us? Why not?! Event starts at 10a at 3899 W. Front Street. Click here to join us! 1. What do...

Read More
Life As A Low Back Pain Sufferer

The healthcare system in the United States for lower back pain right now is just simply not good enough.  If you look at the statistics, they are overwhelming.  Right now we see that over 265 million prescriptions last year were...

Read More
Do You Know What Inflammation Really Is?

Inflammation is defined as a localized protective response elicited by injury or destruction of tissues which serves to destroy, dilute or wall off the injurious agent and the injured tissues.  The inflammatory response can be provoked by physical, chemical and...

Read More
Is The MRI Lying To You?

I want to make it known that in order to fix lower back pain and find a real permanent solution, an MRI and an x-ray is not necessary.   In fact, I would argue that it actually make the outcomes for...

Read More
The #1 Most Important Step in Relieving Low Back Pain

The #1 Most Important Step in Relieving Low Back Pain- Is Getting The Correct Information Over the past 6 months we have been hosting totally free lower back pain workshops at our clinic the last Saturday of each month.  We...

Read More
How Does Balance Effect My SI Joint?

I was recently having a conversation with a physical therapy assistant who works in a local well meaning, yet very “conventional,” physical therapy practice. Since coming to work with us as a patient, we have had many conversations discussing the principles, strategies,...

Read More
Is Sleep The Most Important Element of Low Back Pain?

This morning I woke up with the first thought of how great I slept last night.  This is a rare event for me lately with a business to run, patients to treat, a toddler who sometimes sleeps all night and...

Read More
Why Is Walking Making My Lower Back Hurt?

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...

Read More
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