A client of mine spent a weekend playing baseball with his nephews, which is how most of these start. Nothing happened. No dramatic moment, no diving catch, nobody carried off the field. He just ran around like a man who had temporarily forgotten what age he was, and by Monday something in his quad had […]
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I had a client, an older woman, whose shoulders did not want to cooperate. We’d been working on her mobility for a while and making real progress, and she was fired up about it. She wanted to push. Add weight, chase the burn, actually feel like she was training instead of doing physical therapy homework.
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A client kept having flare ups. We’d tried backing off certain movements, adjusted his load, took things easier for a stretch. Nothing worked. The flare ups kept coming back and we couldn’t figure out why. So we did something different. Took a photo from straight on and drew a line from the middle of his
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Your Back Isn’t the Problem. Your Hips Are. Lower back pain is one of those things everyone seems to just accept. Like it’s part of the deal. You get older, your back hurts, that’s life. You stop deadlifting. You stop gardening. You stop bending over to pick things up off the floor with any confidence.
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There’s a version of problem-solving that feels productive but actually keeps you stuck. It goes like this: something goes wrong, you feel bad about it, and you decide that before you do anything else you need to fully understand why it happened. Makes sense on paper. In practice it tends to turn into weeks of
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Most people treat their body like a car that should start the same way every morning regardless of what happened yesterday. Same weight. Same sets. Same pace. The fact that you slept five hours, ate nothing real, and have been running on stress since Tuesday is apparently not relevant information. Your body disagrees. Loudly, sometimes.
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A client of mine had back pain that had taken over his life. Not dramatic, acute injury pain. The kind that just quietly ends things over time. Golf was gone. Moving comfortably was gone. He wanted to get back to both. We worked together for a while. The problem was he couldn’t really buy in.
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She came in because she had no time. Working constantly, and when she wasn’t working she was too drained to function. Sitting at a computer most of the day, same position for hours, barely moving. Somewhere in the middle of all that her wrist started hurting. So she dealt with the wrist. Brace, rest, ice,
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