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20 Thu

Your lumbar spine: Avoid the pooping dog or pooping duck

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Your lumbar spine: Avoid the pooping dog or pooping duck Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI I read a lot websites, one of my new favorites is Movement-Rx. Recently they, featured a post about how to maintain a neutral spine position with weight training. They used...

Tags: facet, joint, lumbar, lumbar spine, nerve, Paul Kochoa, pelvis, radiating, spine

18 Tue

Check your pelvis

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Check your pelvis Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI Recently, I’ve had a run of patients complaining of low back pain. For the most part, the pain was centralized to the very lower part of their back with no referring symptom or radiating pain. We checked...

Tags: back, bone, hip, innominate, joint, pain, Paul Kochoa, pelvis, sacroiliac, SI joint

13 Thu

Proper core bracing sequence

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Proper core bracing sequence Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI So I finally bought this book that I’ve been meaning to read for over a year now. It’s called “Becoming a Supple Leopard: The ultimate guide to resolving pain, preventing injury, and optimizing athletic performance”, written...

30 Tue

Trigger points treatment

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Trigger points treatment Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI What’s a trigger point? Well, a trigger point is a gnarly place in a muscle or soft tissue region of the body that totally elicits pain, localized or referred, when it gets pressed. It can present itself...

Tags: band, knot, muscle, Paul Kochoa, tight, tissue, trigger point

09 Tue

Back Pain and Tiger Woods

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Back Pain and Tiger Woods Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI I’ve been following the news reports about Tiger Woods and his back pain. I recently read an article by another physiotherapist who wrote about his treatment and the media coverage that followed. Interviews were done...

Tags: back, back pain, disc, golf, MRI, Paul Kochoa, sports, surgery, Tiger Woods

08 Tue

After rehab ends, the work keeps going

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After rehab ends, the work keeps going Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI After an injury or a surgery, physiotherapy is usually prescribed for athletes or weekend warriors. Exercise and rehabilitation can get you back into the swing of things, but a big part...

Tags: discharge, exercise, fitness, graduation, Paul Kochoa, post-surgery, rehab

11 Tue

What is Sciatica?

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Do you have sciatica? Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI If you’ve ever had back pain or been to the doctor, you’ve probably come across the term “sciatica”. You may think that it’s a pinched nerve. Pain that starts in the hip or back...

Tags: back, burning, leg, nerve, numbness, pain, Paul Kochoa, radiating, sciatica, tingling

07 Fri

Sitting and “Gasso-Brako”

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Sitting and “Gasso-Brako” Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI We all do it, some more than others. We all sit. Sitting can be bad for you health, it can increase your risk of mortality by 40%. It can cause lower back pain. It can...

20 Thu

Don’t depend on massage

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Don’t depend on massage Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI Massage may not be the answer to your pain problem. I had a patient come in the other day asking for a massage to alleviate her pain. She had a muscular strain that limited her...

11 Tue

What is the Graston Technique?

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What is the Graston Technique? Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI I’ve heard it called many things: the knife, the scraper, “the really painful thing that I don’t enjoy”… Usually it’s goes like, “Hey, what’s that metal thingy that you scrape on my leg?” It’s...

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