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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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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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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Knee pain is almost as bad as back pain because when you have problems with them, you can not move around to do the things you love. Here is the thing, often were treat where the pain is located. You would think the knee is easy to treat. Sometimes yes. It is a case of
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It is that time of year. It’s the time where we set our New Year’s resolutions. The most popular resolutions are always about exercise, health and lifestyle and saving money. But many resolutions get broken by the first month actually some do not even get that far. Why is that? There are so many reasons,
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It is the Marathon weekend in Dallas. So, this inspired me to write this blog. One of the common mistakes I find with people training for marathons is they tend to focus on running only. Their training starts to ramp up and they think they are exercising so much that they no longer need to get to the
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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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We see people all the time that have tried a lot of different healthcare providers including physical therapy and just do not get all the way better… Some know what physical therapy is and others have never tried it. There is conflicting information on what do it, or have you feel like you have exhausted
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I have recently had a few patients that have called my office and they have said, “ I want to get another MRI to compare to my last MRI that was 6 months ago before I start treatment.” So often, patients feel that an MRI is going to give them answers as what is going
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I often say where the pain is located is not often where the source of the problem is located. So often when we start to have pain we try to do our own treatment options based on what google or facebook tells you :-), then we go to the doctor. They look at that body part where
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