Can You Deadlift After a Disc Herniation? Here Is What I Tell Every Patient.
The Fear That Follows a Disc Herniation There is a moment that happens with a lot of my patients after a disc herniation diagnosis. They get the MRI report, they see the words "herniated disc" in writing, and something shifts. Suddenly, every movement feels dangerous....
A Rotator Cuff Tear, a Golf Swing Worth Protecting, and the Combination That Got Him Back on the Course
How He Found Us He had been dealing with right shoulder pain for about eight months before he came in. A recreational golfer, late 50s, playing three to four times a week. The pain had started after a particularly heavy range session and had gradually gotten bad...
She Was Scared She’d Have to Sit Out Her Senior Season. Now Her Knees Have Never Felt Better.
What She Came In With She came in scared. A D1 commit, her senior season eight weeks away, and bilateral knee pain that had been building for most of the summer. She had been pushing through practice after practice on knees that were talking to her, quite a bit, and...
Isometrics for Tendon Injuries: Why the Research Points to Holding Still to Get Better
The Patient Who Had Tried Everything The patient sitting across from me had been dealing with Achilles pain for seven months. He had rested it for six weeks at his doctor's direction, stretched it twice a day, and completed two rounds of anti-inflammatories. He was...
Should You Lift With Pain? A Chiropractor’s Traffic Light System
The Wrong Question to Ask The number one question I get from patients who love to train is some version of this: "Can I still work out while I'm hurt?" It makes sense that this is the first thing people ask. You've built a routine. You have goals. You do not want to...
Running Form and Injury Risk: What the Research Actually Shows
She had been running her whole life, through high school track, through the years after, training now for her first half marathon. Then the right hip started doing what her left hip had done in high school. The one that cost her her senior track season. She knew how...