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...
The pain is better. Significantly better. The patient comes in, reports improvement, moves more freely than they have in weeks, and says some version of: “I think I’m good.” This is the moment where the most important conversation in rehab happens,...
Getting the diagnosis right matters more for headaches than almost any other condition I treat. Not because the stakes are higher (though for some presentations they are) but because the treatment approaches are genuinely different, and applying the wrong one...
“In the morning it is a ten. It’s a ten. I wanna cry.” She is a teacher’s aide. She spends her days walking classroom floors and reaching for five-year-olds, working a job that is built around her body being available and functional. The arm...
Two patients came in within the same month with the same specific fear: that the window they had been working toward was about to close. One was a professional tennis player. Six weeks into the early-career tournament season, ranked, with a specific US event that...
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