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This comes up a lot in our office. Do I need to get an MRI to help you figure out what is going on? Do you need to see my MRI report? And the answer usually is no! The cost of MRI’s ranges from $600-1500. Most people think if I get an MRI, this will tell me what is going on? And that is just not the case.. You can save your money and use it towards something that can really help. In this episode w...

Most of the time someone comes into our office with back pain and we ask what happened? Their answer is I am not sure. I just woke up and it started to hurt. Or I moved slightly wrong and my back tightened up. I am not sure what I did. It is so common. But in our healthcare system, we never give education as to why the client is getting back pain or what they are doing that is creating their back...

We often go to the doctor and know something is off. But you get all your testing and it comes back normal or with minor issues. The doctor says you are fine, or they just give you medication to help with whatever is going on.. But you still do not feel good. You are frustrated that you do not have any answers. You are told that is just what happens as you get older. So you accept this is the way...

Juanita is a client like many of our clients. She tried lots of treatments and went to lots of doctors to try to get some sort of resolution for her pain. She has had neck pain for 10 years. She has been going to a great massage therapist to manage it, but her neck pain never went away. She then started to get some elbow pain about 1 year ago. Nothing seemed to help. Then she started to get thumb...

Not all massages are the same. You can have different massages that can affect you in completely different ways. The key like anything else is getting to the source of the problem. I always say tissue tightness is usually a symptom. You have to get to why it is tight. When you look at the musculoskeletal system you will always see patterns. But when you have myofascial issues, this is a completely...

It is so much fun to get together over the weekend to do annual planning…. have some fun and do a podcast with some of my staff. It is a fun one on what are the funniest things that have happened to you while doing PT? What is your favorite moment while being a PT? And just laughing and having fun.. If you want a laugh, then definitely check out this podcast.. You will laugh at the funny things th...

One way we feel pain as well as having other issues that no healthcare seems to figure is when we have autoimmune conditions. Now you may not know you have any kind of autoimmune problems, but when the body is out of balance you just know something is off. You may notice lots of bloating, difficulty sleeping, weight gain in the mid section that you can not get rid of, fatigue, as well as other com...

Are you suffering with Plantar fasciitis? The fastest way to get resolution is to get to the source of the problem. If you treat a symptom, then it will continue to have problems. There are two areas that I see are missed with treatment of plantar fasciitis. Once without checking the mobility of the ankle. This can mimic a plantar fasciitis. If this is missed, you will have years of problems witho...

What is a Naturopathic doctor and how can they help restore your health? Often in the Medical system doctors look for diagnoses to give you a pill, but why is this happening? You have to look at the whole body and not just the symptom. In this medical system we often treat symptoms which is why you are not getting better. In this episode, we are talking with Dr. Mike Smith about what a naturopathi...

We have a new Physical therapist. Check out this episode to learn more about Cory and how she made her way to Dallas. Why she became a physical therapist and what brought her to our clinic! Just like many other physical therapists, with reimbursement going down in clinics and expenses going up, that means you have to see more patients in an hour to make enough money to cover all the expenses! It i...

Headaches that give you that low level pain that is exhausting. You feel like you are just living to work because all you want to do is go home, not talk to anyone and then go to bed and wake up doing this all over again. You do not want to do anything with your friends and family… You have tried everything and nothing seems to work, doctors just throw pills at you or eventually think you are craz...

We get this question all the time… I go and get a massage for my neck pain, or back pain, or hip pain and it feels good (in a painful way). I feel better after the massage, but my pain returns within hours to days later. Why does this happen? I am told by a doctor that I just need a massage for my neck pain or back pain? I keep having to do massage 2 times a week and it helps, but I can not keep t...

What is a runner's knee? What is one thing that most healthcare providers miss in treating knee pain? What is joint mobility and why is it so important? That is what we are going to talk about.. Plus stay to the end as you will get 2 mobility tests that no one does that can create knee pain! As a runner, it is frustrating because doctors want to tell you to stop running without any great advice on...

Who do you know that has chronic headaches and are looking for a lasting solution? When you get headaches, you will be exhausted. The pain literally takes up the space in your head creating brain fog and only wanting to come home to veg on the couch and do nothing. For you then to go to bed and do it all over again the next day.. You literally are living to just work and not enjoying any time with...

Do you have a or know a small to midsize business who is frustrated with the worker’s compensation process or maybe you are self insured or not insured looking for a better way to keep your workers productive without an injury that slows them down or takes them out of work altogether. Losing staff means losing money or even losing projects. Here are the frustrations with workers compensation… The...

In this episode we are going to talk about: How we feel back pain, Common sources of back pain, why other healthcare providers are not getting to the source of your back pain, and simple exercises that can give you results today. Back pain is a billion dollar business, yet there seems to be no solutions… Patients seem to be going for injection after injection without getting lasting results. Or go...

Karen has had back pain for years. She is a marathon runner and like many of our clients she was getting pain and the only option given to her was the injections. Well they worked but only for a short time, literally after 3 injections to help her through a marathon, she literally had her pain return during her marathon.. The doctors told her that there was nothing else she could do. That physical...

If you are getting headaches, neck or shoulder pain or some combination of this, and you are fatigued by the end of the day, have brain fog, and literally want to go home and do nothing but veg on the couch and sleep to wake up and do it all over again the next day.. Then this is the talk for you! We will get into why these areas are linked. Why injections and medications will not help you but the...

In this episode we talk with DR Anthony Vasile of Texas Chiroheath of Lakewood on how his office is more than just a Manipulation. “You have to treat the whole body, nutrition, mind and body” We both have similar approaches to health and are so glad there are other healthcare providers out there that look at the whole body. We always say you have to get the mobility back before you can work on str...

We get this question all the time. Clients not wanting to have surgery on their knee if they do not have to. But they are told that the meniscal tears are a part of the cartilage and that will not heal on its own. So how do some people heal from a Meniscal tear that is shown in an MRI and did not have to have surgery and other people have surgery for this same issue. It can get confusing in the me...

When clients have neck pain and they think that is just muscle tension from stress so they will go get a massage and it does not work! The pain returns within hours to days later, so they get another one and the same thing happens. This is so common. So how does a good physical therapist that specializes in the Neck and Shoulder help get you out of the cycle of needing so many massages? And how is...

Listen to Christina’s story. She was fearful of not being able to stay active as she was getting older. Going to the orthopedic surgeon’s office who said she has arthritis and is going to need to go down the path of injections and surgery to help her knee pain. The Doctor said you can try physical therapy, but you will eventually need injections and surgery. She also has been through numerous doct...

You are not going to want to miss this information. I go into what happens with herniations, how you feel depending on where the herniation is, how to know what to do when you have a herniation. How a ruptured disc presents very differently than just a herniation which CAN BE RESOLVED without Surgery or Medications. You will get a full understanding of what I draw out for our clients every day exp...

When you go to a doctor as a woman knowing that something is off but you can't pinpoint it. You start to have symptoms of lack of sleep, low energy, hot flashes, brain fog, leaking and even pelvic pain and all you might get from the doctors is that is just what happens as we get older. I am here to tell you, that is not true. There are things you can do and medications and surgery should be the la...

Listen to Jims story... Jim came to us after having his prostate removed. As is typical following this surgery, he was having a difficult time controlling his bladder. This was making it difficult for him to travel and play golf, which he thoroughly enjoys. Jim was fearful that he was going to have to live with this lack of control for the rest of his life. Following his surgery, his prostate doct...