Health and Fitness 101

Pregnancy and low back pain often go together, and many moms-to-be have simply accepted this as part of the package.  After all, how can carrying around another human for nine months be comfortable? 

The most common link I’ve found between pregnant women and low back pain is weak core musculature.  Hormones released during pregnancy are responsible for creating laxity [...]

See if this describes your shoulder pain. The pain lies deep within the shoulder. It started a while ago. Lifting weights, perhaps? Thinking back, it might have been from doing either shoulder presses or bench presses. At first, pain was mostly down inside the point of the shoulder. But now the shoulder grinds and pops. [...]

A friend of mine, a local MD, stopped by yesterday to drop his daughter off at my daughter’s birthday party. As we talked, I saw him reach for his low back. I asked him what was up. He said his back started hurting a week ago. He’s a doctor, so I explained to him the new science behind best treatments [...]

This could be you . . . or someone you know. A healthy recreational athlete stopped by our office with elbow pain. She wasn’t a tennis player, but her symptoms fit that of a painful elbow condition called tennis elbow, medically known as ”lateral epicondylitis.”                                    

She’d tried ice and antiinflammatory medicine without any improvement. She kept on [...]