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08 Thu

Defy age with exercise

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Defy age with exercise Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI Great news everyone! Exercise keeps you young! According to an article in the New York Times that references a new study out of England, exercise changes how you age. They studied 126 men and women between the...

Tags: age, aging, balance, exercise, fall, falls, health, Paul Kochoa, Test, time up and go

23 Tue

Improve your golf in the winter and your whole body for life

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Improve your golf in the winter and your whole body for life Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKPT, CGFI Even though the temps are dropping, frost is on the ground, and snow is in the air; now is the best time to think about your golf game....

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...

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

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 Thu

Music makes your workout better

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Music makes your workout better Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI The New York Times posted an article last week regarding music and your workout. A study out of Canada found that listening to music made strenuous exercise more effective. In particular, this is in relation...

14 Tue

New word of the day: Mechanotransduction!

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New word of the day: Mechanotransduction! Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI It’s a mouthful, a word you don’t see everyday: mechanotransduction. It’s basically when a cell in your body receives some type of mechanical stimulus and converts it to some electrical signal for other cellular...

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