Hip Dominant vs. Knee Dominant Movement
Hip dominant vs. Knee dominant movement can be tricky to nail down. Understanding this concept can help with lingering pain in either joint. Check out this quick video to learn an exercise I give to my patients to help them learn how to shift their weight between their knees and hips. It's a great glute...
Read MoreFixing Form to Eliminate Knee Pain
Learn what things you may be doing wrong from day to day that could be contributing to your knee pain by watching this video. In particular, we go over the proper way to balance the load in your knee when going up and down stairs. As with all exercises, if you feel pain when performing...
Read MoreKeeping Your Joints Healthy
Your body has over 230 individual joints (many more if you get really technical about it). Each one of these joints are fairly simply constructed - two cartilage capped bone ends, bathed in protective and lubricating synovial fluid, wrapped in a connective tissue bag called a joint capsule - that's it! Keeping these simple structures...
Read MoreIT Band Syndrome
If you've been an active runner for an extended period of time you have likely experienced bouts of lateral (outside) knee pain at some point in your career. The chances are also pretty high that the pain you were experience was caused by a tight iliotibial band (ITB). Ilio-wha? Yeah, I know, more anatomical jargon. ...
Read MoreLow Level Light Therapy (aka Cold Laser)
Physicians of all backgrounds throughout time have recognized the healing power of light. Things like the implementation of sun rooms in hospitals to personal light boxes have been used to effectively treat diseases from tuberculosis to depression. New technologies have been developed over the years to harness the power of different wavelengths of light to...
Read More