When I was around 10 years old, I was on vacation with my family in upstate New York. We had recently transitioned from camping in tents near Lake Meacham to vacationing in cabins on Lake Chateauguay. I should explain that I’m very much a city …
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Stretching Out the Pain: Feels Good But is it Good FOR You? – Stop Everyday Pain
Recently I've had a few questions from patients who are reading the book. One that keeps coming up is about whether or not stretching is good or bad for us. Stretching is a very confusing topic and has been one of scientific controversy for years …
Stretching Out the Pain: Feels Good But is it Good FOR You? – Stop Everyday Pain
Should the Show Be Called “Dancing With the Gladiators”?
Why does our popular culture raise hardship onto a pedestal? There’s just nothing sensible about that in my opinion. It is however a very common underlying belief system that patients bring with them through my office door. Often they come to me …
What do Bats and Sloths Have to Do With Osteoarthritis?
Just as much as the rest of us do apparently. There’s a myth out there (that I’ve been guilty of perpetuating myself in the past) about the fun idea that bats and sloths don’t show any evidence of osteoarthritis — the kind of degenerative changes in …
What Can You Do to Avoid “Sleeping Injuries”?
In my previous post I introduced the idea of how ridiculously injured we can feel after a night of what was supposed to be regenerative sleep. This is just one but a popular example of everyday pain. This is the kind of pain that has us wondering: …
