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A Revolutionary New Way to Improve Your Golf Game
Looking to improve your golf swing and reduce the risk of injury? Well, in today’s article we discuss a revolutionary way to explain why you may be swinging the club the way you are and how you can rectify these hidden hanbrakes!
3 Exercises to Help Settle the Root Cause of Shoulder Impingement
When trying to fix your shoulder impingement it’s important to look beyond just the shoulder itself. We need to uncover the hidden contributing factors to that pain and dysfunction. Read on as we discuss three of the main contributing factors to common shoulder impingement.
2 Unique Exercises For Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)
Overcoming a frozen shoulder can be a tough and arduous experience. So, it’s important you have some effective exercises to work hard on. A part from the traditional shoulder rehab exercises, there are 2 unqiue exercises that can help you with your shoulder pain and immobility. Check them out!
How to Fix Rounded Shoulders
Reversing rounded shoulders requires a multi-faceted approach. Whether it be increased strength, better mobility, or improved postural awareness and output, all need your attention. Otherwise, it’s hard to see sustainable long-term change. In this article, we discuss what you need to do to lay the broad foundations needed to fix rounded shoulders!
When Is Your Shoulder Pain Neck-Related?
If you’re trying to solve your shoulder pain, it’s important to have all the information at hand. Importantly, you need to make sure your shoulder pain is not being referred from your neck. Otherwise, all your hard work could be wasted. In this article, we discuss how to find and self-treat any neck-related shoulder pain in order to help support long-term progress!
Top 3 Causes of Biceps Tendon Pain | Anterior Shoulder Pain
Pain at the front of the shoulder is more complicated than many realize. Not only do we need to rehabilitate your painful and dysfunctional tissue, but we also need to figure out why it became sore in the first place. In today’s article, we cover three hidden reasons why the front of your shoulder/biceps tendon may become sore in the first place!
Is Your Shoulder Pain First-Rib Related?
If you are suffering from shoulder pain, take the time to figure out whether your first rib is involved. For such a simple issue it could genuinely be contributing to your shoulder pain in some way. Here’s what you need to know and do to potentially fill in this missing puzzle piece!
6 Essential Recovery Tips To Boost Your Running Performance
Post-run recovery is almost as important as the run itself. All that hard work on the track may not count for much if you don’t help your body optimize its in-built recovery processes. Luckily there are a number of simple and effective strategies you can implement to help your body recover quickly and be ready to go again as soon as possible. here are 6!
Here's What Your Shoes Are Really Telling You About Your Aches & Pain
When choosing which shoes to buy, how often are you looking for something to ease your aches and pains? Interestingly, we should instead take the time to listen to what our shoes are telling us and work hard to resolve this relatively hidden dysfunction. Here’s what you need to know!
Should We Reconsider Using Ice to Treat Injuries?
For decades we have turned to ice to treat acute injuries. But are we missing something? Does the reason we use ice - to limit pain, swelling, and inflammation, contradict what needs to happen in order for our tissue to heal? Read on as we discuss the merits of ice and whether it’s time to reconsider its use.
Myth: Hamstring Tightness at the Back of the Knee is Not Hamstring Tightness
When stretching your hamstrings, where do you feel it? Ideally, we should always feel it in the heart of the thigh at the back. However many seem to feel it down at the back of the back. Interestingly, this isn’t actually the hamstring being stretched. Instead, it’s actually an over-tensioned Sciatic nerve. Here’s how to solve it and find the right hamstring stretch for you:
How to Solve Your Neck Pain When Riding
Neck pain is all-too-common on the bike. Many see it as an acceptable consequence of doing something you love. But it needn’t be. Here’s what’s likely to be causing your neck pain when cycling, why it’s preventable and what you can do to try and solve it!
One Left-Of-Center Exercise You Should Do to Improve Your Knee Pain and Function
When looking to improve your knee pain and function, it’s easy to focus on just the knee itself. Interestingly there are a number of exercises that don’t directly involve the knee which can have a substantial impact on how it feels. Here’s one of the most important exercises to do for a healthy and pain-free knee.
3 Uniquely Powerful Exercises to Address the Root Cause of Your Shoulder Pain
Do you suffer from shoulder pain? If you do, how much time and energy do you put into treating the tissue around the shoulder? Interestingly, a large percentage of shoulder pain is the consequence of poor mechanics, and the trick is to figure out where the dysfunctional tissue is in order to get to the root cause. Here are three unique areas that may be setting your shoulder up to fail, and what to do about it.
Myth: Noisy Knees Are a Sign of Osteoarthritis
Do your knees creek and groan at you when you move? If so, are you like many who feel it’s a sign of Arthritis? Thankfully, you may be pleasantly surprised to hear this isn’t the case. The orchestra of sounds is more likely a consequence of less than perfect knee mechanics rather than anything that shows up on an x-ray. And it’s also something you can change. So let’s delve in to why noisy knees should not be thought of as a sign of knee arthritis.
Supercharge Your Rehab With Our New Laser Therapy
Looking to decrease pain and speed up your recovery from injury? We have recently purchased a new LightForce EXPi Laser Machine for these very reasons. Here’s a quick look at what it can do for you!
How Well Do You Breathe?
Have you ever taken a moment to think about how you breathe? For something so simple and automatic, having a good breathing pattern is not the fait accompli we often think it is. Read on as we go through some important points to consider about the way you breathe.
3 Hidden Reasons Your Knee Hurts
The majority of non-traumatic knee pain can often feel mysterious. The pain is obvious but the cause less so. Because of this, we tend to fall back on cliched terms like ‘bad luck’, ‘age’ and ‘moving the wrong way’. Interestingly, once we take a big enough step back, there are often three foundational reasons for a knee to become sore. Here’s why…
Are the Heels on Our Shoes Bad for Us?
We wear shoes every day. But how often do you stop and think about their impact on your physical health and function? With modern footwear heavily effected by our thirst for technology, we can easily loose sight of what’s important for our feet - a category thick heels may not belong. Read on as we discuss why shoes with any heel might be doing you a huge disservice. All without you even realizing.
Why Not Come to Our FREE Low Back and Shoulder Workshop?!
Looking to solve your low back or shoulder dysfunction? We run free low back and shoulder workshops each alternating month and would love you to come! Located at our LORPT facility in Laguna Niguel, we hope to arm (pun definitely intended) you with the right information and help you reach your rehab goals. Register your interest so you don’t miss out!