As we just cleared the 1st leg of the holiday season, Thanksgiving, I felt compelled to write this. Every year, I hear folks complain about 1) indulging in too much food and drink 2) lack of time for exercise and 3) how they don’t have time to take care of their...
Today, I wish to focus on the topic of pain. Generally pain is not the main focus of my discussions with patients, but at the beginning it must be. Why? So I can better understand the (problem) at hand. But what is PAIN really? Pain is a complex issue, and one that is...
A study published in the Journal of Pain found 1 in 10 people live with daily pain. An estimated 55% of the American population experiences some form of pain in any given 3-month period. These are a staggeringly high numbers, which leads to the question about how...
Lateral epicondylitis also known as “tennis elbow” is a common condition experienced by about 3% of the general population each year. This condition most often occurs as a result of chronic overloading of the muscle-tendon complex at the outer point of the elbow...
There is a newer buzz in the physical therapy world regarding what we call the pain sciences. This entails educating patients more specifically about how pain is processed by the brain and experienced by the individual. Because pain is an individual experience, it is...