22 Apr Bulging Discs And How You Can Slow Them Down
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Disc Herniation
22 Jul Chiropractic Works, Except When It Doesn’t
Posted at 10:00h
in Arthritis, Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Internal Disc Derangement, Paradigm
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I come from a chiropractic family. My mom has been getting adjusted all of her life. My pop-pop believed in chiropractors + swore by an applied kinesiology doctor. My dad had a bad low back, walking like a duck at times due to an inflamed lumbar disc issue. He also...
16 Apr Know Your Numbers: The Lunge Stretch Test
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in Biking, Bursitis, CrossFit, Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Golf, Hip, Labral Tear, Lumbar Spine, Pelvis, Running, Testing, Thigh
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If you are a desk warrior, check your lunge stretch test to determine how crushed your low back is. ~Barefoot Rehab The low back is one area of the body not to mess around with. I'd bet a hefty penny that you know many people in low back pain. Add...
09 Apr Know Your Numbers: The Thigh to Chest Test
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in Biking, Bursitis, CrossFit, Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Golf, Hip, Impingement, Knee, Knee Injury, Labral Tear, Lumbar Spine, Pelvis, Running, Sciatica, Testing, Thigh
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The King Daddy of hip mobility tests is the thigh to chest test. It's the best. ~Barefoot Rehab So ...
15 Feb The Chiropractor with the Broken Back: Individualizing Fitness To Teach Respect
Writer's Note: This post is the long personal story of my own injury history and it has affected my perspective of pain, movement, and fitness. The hope is to convey natural principles of the human body and movement through that story to describe how vital it is to...
14 Dec Know Your Numbers: Standards for Musculoskeletal Health, The Low Back, And The Touch Your Toes Test
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in Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Hip, Internal Disc Derangement, Lumbar Spine, Paradigm, Testing
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Can chronic pain be prevented if at as early an age as possible, people were aware of the inherent risk in all of their musculoskeletal parts? Can chronic pain be fixed with understanding of musculoskeletal health standards (like the ability to touch your toes), the lifestyle choices,...
08 Oct I Don’t Care About Your Herniated Disc … or Do I? (How Perfect Are Lumbar MRI’s?)
Here’s what I had to say in 2015, when I was 5 years into practice. I don’t care about your herniated disc. Or your torn labrum. Or the arthritis in your neck. ~Yours Truly As I sit to edit this document in 2022 after practicing for 7...