Joint Pain

Healthcare is taking your car into the shop

Why Healthcare Is NOT Working! And How It Is Similar to Taking Your Car Into The Shop…

Do you have problem and fearful of losing your mobility? Not feeling like you being heard? Are you going to the doctor without moving you? Just taking a picture and saying this is the surgery we need to do? Well, you are not alone…  I like to compare our healthcare to taking your car into […]

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Post Traumatic Stress Physical Therapy Dallas

Do You Have PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) With Your Injury? It Is Okay, We Can Help

Yes, this is a real thing.. It is something I work with all the time in my office. In Healthcare we throw big scary terms around without a lot of education and we throw options at patients that do not put them in control such as giving them drugs or injections or surgery. The problem

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Pilates Reformer Physical Therapy Clinic in Dallas

How Pilates can improve Running Performance

Actually,  how it can improve all performance. Whether you are looking to improve running, swimming, or just walking around the block. Pilates has been shown to improve your performance from the lowest level to the highest level client. But today I want to talk about Runners!! I often get athletes (weekend warriors to competitive athletes

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Knee Pain Caused By Arthritis

Is Arthritis the True Cause of Your Knee Pain? Can you get HELP without surgery?

In order to hike, bike, play with your kids or grandkids, travel, or just lead an active lifestyle; you need healthy, pain free knees. Sadly, so often we get labeled with some scary diagnosis that makes us think there is nothing that can be done. Oh, you have arthritis, or you have degenerative changes in

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Why REST and MEDICATIONS do not work when you are in pain

I have had recent patients in the past that were going to come in to see us because of their pain and loss of being active. They went to the doctor and were told to just REST and were given some MEDICATION OR AN INJECTION. I have even had doctors tell the patients not to

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Pain Killer medicine

Why medications or injections do not give you the pain relief you wanted

Ever wonder why you take pain pills and it just takes an edge off or does not work at all? Then you go to injections and it might help for 1 week to 6 months. And the pain returns, and you feel like you are back to square one or that you have no control

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Why Core Strengthening Does Not Work When You Have Back Pain?

I do not know how many times I hear patients that come to my office who have been to numerous healthcare providers with back pain are being told they just need to strengthen their core or stretch their back and hamstrings. Other things I hear is to lose weight and that will help. You will

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Good Questions to Ask to Determine if Drugs or Injections are the Right Treatment for your Pain

Have you ever hurt and then you get medications or you get injections and it does not work. Or you felt good for a 2-6 weeks and your pain returned. This is common because we feel pain 3 different ways – thermal (burns, sun burns), Chemical (inflammation), and mechanical (the mechanics are the problem). Drugs

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Knee Pain Treatment Highland Park

Did You Get the Diagnosis of Arthritis? Your Pain May Not Be Coming From Arthritis…

I can not tell you how many patients that find us and they are told they have arthritis and are not sure that anything can be done about that. It is a word that is all about fear because the patient feels their is nothing they can do about it besides taking medications, getting injections

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