He had been wearing Icy Hot pads to work for so long it had become routine. He was an arborist and tree climber, physically demanding work. He had been managing chronic low back pain since a motorcycle crash at fifteen. Over the years, he had learned to adapt his job...
She pointed to her neighbor across the street, a woman in her nineties, up on a ladder trimming trees. “I wanna be her,” she said. “That’s my goal.” She was in her early seventies, still working out with a personal trainer twice a week,...
Every week someone comes into COSJ and says some version of the same thing: “My friend mentioned dry needling, but I have no idea what it is. Is it the same as acupuncture? Does it hurt? Will it actually help what I have going on?” Those are reasonable...
She came in because a coworker told her to. The coworker had been through dry needling and told her it was different from anything else she had tried. That recommendation carried weight because this patient had already tried the standard playbook, ibuprofen until it...
Most people treat their tension headaches from the wrong end. They take ibuprofen or acetaminophen when the headache arrives, wait for it to pass, and move on. That approach works until it doesn’t, until the headaches are happening three or four times a week,...
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