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17 Tue

How to keep your posture while driving

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How to keep your posture while driving Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI I’ve got a couple patients that I see that have long commutes to work. They drive and then come in to see me complaining of increased neck or back pain. We always go over how...

Tags: cervical, driving, low back, lumbar, lumbar roll, neck, pain, Paul Kochoa, posture, sitting

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

10 Tue

Guidelines on how to treat low back pain

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Guidelines on how to treat low back pain Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI Low back pain affects up to 80% of Americans. Chances are pretty high that you have had back pain or you know of someone who has had back pain. What...

12 Tue

Adult onset scoliosis

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Adult onset scoliosis Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI So a patient of mine mentioned this article in the New York Times about scoliosis in adults. She was surprised that scoliosis was so prominent in adults, and was not just relegated to a younger...

Tags: adolescent, adult, back, child, exercise, lumbar, pain, Paul Kochoa, scoliosis, spine, stretching, thoracic

01 Tue

Back pain that’s not from the back

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Back pain that’s not from the back Written by: Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CKTP, CGFI A recent article on CNN.com outlined a problem that I’ve run into a few times with my patients. It’s the back pain that most surgeons will not find… They don’t find it...

Tags: back, back pain, joint, lumbar, pain, Paul Kochoa, sacroiliac, sacrum, SI joint, vertebrae

29 Sat

What’s the core?

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What is the “Core”? Written by: Michelle Millner, PT, DPT, OCS Did you like to play with blocks when you were a kid? Do you remember how they needed to be balanced just right when you built a tower otherwise it would all come crashing down? Human vertebrae...

Tags: back, back pain, core, health, lumbar, Michelle Millner, muscles, pain, posture, spine

Tag Archives: lumbar

How to keep your posture while driving

Your lumbar spine: Avoid the pooping dog or pooping duck

Guidelines on how to treat low back pain

Adult onset scoliosis

Back pain that’s not from the back

What’s the core?