A C-section is a major abdominal surgery. The uterus, the fascia, the abdominal muscles, and the skin are all cut and then repaired in layers. And yet, by the time most C-section mothers reach their six-week postpartum visit, the guidance they receive is something...
She came in with a seven-month-old and a two-year-old, a C-section she had never rehabbed, and a training schedule she was trying to hold together while managing shoulder, wrist, and low back pain that had been building since the second delivery. She was training for...
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...
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