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If you are about to have Rotator Cuff Surgery and want to avoid it at all cost, then you are going to want to hear this story. Steven is a client who literally could not raise his shoulder off of body. He could move his elbow but could not move his arm away from his body. That is how bad of an injury he had. But he also did not want to have surgery as that is a 6-7 month to a year process to get b...

We literally have had amazing results with Shockwave Therapy. From Chronic Back pain, Elbow Pain, Plantar fasciitis, Knee pain; who have gotten results in 3-6 treatments. I love that we have had clients with chronic plantar fasciitis who have tried everything and nothing worked, but with 2 treatments of shockwave she felt 60% better. To another client with Back pain who we were able to help throug...

Meet Dr. Genz who is a Holistic Dentist and Founder of The Whole Tooth Dentistry. What does a Holistic Dentist look like? Well you would be surprised at how our health is related to our teeth and what is going on with our teeth. So getting an understanding of why something is happening in the mouth is key to helping reduce the disease process in our body! Check out Dr Genz’s story and how she star...

Check out Hunter’s Story of having Chronic Back Pain as a Collegiate Swimmer. How trying other physical therapy offices was making him worse and not progressing him. To him feeling like he was not going to be able to swim to his best ability and fearing he was going to have to live with back pain for the rest of his life… In his story as we talk about how other places just went to the site of his...

Listen to Emily’s Story of where she had knee pain for over 3 years and going to multiple PT offices without results. How her doctors told her it was her back that was the problem which can definitely cause knee pain, but that was not where the source of her problem was coming from. This is often the case we find. If you do not get to the source of the problem, you are treating the symptoms. While...

88% of people with knee arthritis are 45 or older. The incidence of knee arthritis is highest between 55 and 64 years old. Knee Arthritis is a common diagnosis, yet is that really where your pain is coming from. In this episode we will talk about 4 common causes of knee pain that mimic arthritis and what you can do about them. We will learn in the Podcast: Is arthritis really where your pain is co...

We partnered with Dr Reddy who is a Rheumatologist but also is Fellowship Trained in Integrative Medicine and Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine! This event is for you if: You want to stay active and healthy as you age! To not have to slow down, or fear you cannot travel, do gardening, play with your kids or grandkids. You want to keep those Aches and Pains away- you are probably moving and str...

Knee Pain affects 25% of the population. Most of the time you are told that is just what happens as we age. Or it is due to overuse because as we age we do not recover as fast. Either way, most of the time you can avoid surgery and injections if you get to the right place that can look at the whole body and not just the symptoms around the knee. So this talk is about the Mistakes Healthcare provid...

We see this all the time. You go to a doctor because you have been hurting and they “say are some medications and just rest for the next month..” So you do that and 1 month later you are still hurting… You are frustrated and think this must be serious. Am I going to be able to stay active, or travel, or play with my kids or grandkids without hurting myself. Is my life going to be over.. Yes your b...

Tracy is one of our patients who started hurting 2 years ago. He liked to fix bikes and was in these really bad flexed positions for long periods of time. He started hurting and his pain got worse over the years. Not sure what to do, he tried to stay active doing yoga and biking, using Dr google for exercises, but that was not helping his pain go away.. He went to a chiropractor and continued to g...

This one thing I find healthcare providers miss in helping their patients get back to living their life. It often leads people down the path of having surgery. It is also why you have, for example, back surgery. You feel great after surgery, but 1 year down the road your pain returns. So you end up going in for another surgery. Why does this happen? Well doctors will blame that you are getting old...

Did you know that over 50% of all shoulder Pain comes from the Spine.. Yet healthcare professionals will just go to the site of the pain and do an MRI on the shoulder to “find out what is wrong.” Physical therapist will go to the shoulder and do strengthening exercises… And you wonder why you are not getting better. We get lots of clients with low grade headaches that also are having shoulder pain...

Did you know that over 50% of shoulder Pain comes from the Spine?? Yup, it comes from the Neck or the thoracic spine! So if you are only looking at the shoulder pain as the issues, you may be missing a huge piece of the puzzle leading you down the path of unnecessary treatments that will not work and years of frustration! You have to understand how the body is connected in figuring out where the s...

Headaches are exhausting. You literally have no life if you have chronic headache pain. You basically are living to work and are too exhausted due to the pain to spend time with your family and friends. There are many types of headaches and if you get the wrong category which often happens, you will be treating a symptom. So what are those categories? And how do they present? What can you do for t...

Check out this Patient’s story to give you hope that it is possible to get resolution to hip pain. This client was supposed to travel with a friend to Italy but wanted to back out. Her hip has been bothering her and it was getting worse. She was having a hard time walking around and did not want to travel in the exhausted state she was in because it would not be fun! She had been going to a chirop...

Back pain is a billion dollar business without great results. Clients often lose hope that they are just going to have to live this way for the rest of their life. Or they wonder why their back pain keeps on returning and getting worse. We have clients all the time come into our office after seeing 7-10 healthcare providers for their back pain without results, but are able to get results in our of...

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...