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11 Thu

Don’t have time to stay fit during the holidays? Try the 7-minute workout.

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Don’t have time to stay fit during the holidays? Try the 7-minute workout. Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI Recently, I’ve had a couple patients come in who really, really, really wanted to get back into exercising and getting back in shape. They were injured and...

09 Tue

Physical Therapy and/or Knee Replacement

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Physical Therapy and/or Knee Replacement MICHELLE MILLNER, PT, DPT, OCS Knee replacement surgery is increasingly popular among patients with knee pain. It is often touted as a miracle cure. Simply remove the damaged bone and replace it with new metal and plastic components. It sounds wonderful, but...

04 Thu

Fix your pelvis

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Fix your pelvis Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI A couple weeks ago, I posted Check your Pelvis. Today, I’m going to talk about how to fix it. To review, the pelvis is a ring made up of three bones. When that ring is disrupted because...

Tags: back, hip, hips, joint, pain, Paul Kochoa, pelvic, pelvis, pubic, SI joint

02 Tue

Holiday gifts for people with back pain

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Holiday gifts for people with back pain Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 30% of American adults currently suffer from back pain, and 80% of adults will experience back pain at some time in their...

Tags: exercise, foam roller, gifts, holiday, Paul Kochoa, stretching

28 Fri

Small ways to stay fit and healthy during the holidays

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Small ways to stay fit and healthy during the holidays Matthew Riordan, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS Ah, the music, the lights, the snowmen, the lawn Santas… It must be that time of year again, the holidays are approaching. This is a season to get together with family...

Tags: christmas, fitness, health, holiday, Matthew Riordan

25 Tue

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t let pain crash the party. Matthew Riordian, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS There’s a lot of information out eating healthy on Thanksgiving, but not much is about Thanksgiving Day injuries. Although this is a day set aside to take a break from the day to day busy routine to relax and give...

Tags: back, Matthew Riordan, neck, pain, posture, shoulder, stress, thanksgiving

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...

04 Tue

Ankle Sprain Grades

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Ankle Sprain Grades Michelle Millner, PT, DPT, OCS Rolling your ankle or twisting it can lead to a sprain of the ankle. But what does that really mean? A sprain means that the connective tissue connecting one bone to another (ligaments) gets over stretched or torn during...

Tags: ankle, compression, elevation, grade, ice, rest, RICE, sprain

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