06
2021
Hamstrings: What you need to know
Imagine standing up tall with your hamstrings as they attach to your sitting bones, starting at an early age. Then you wouldn’t have to use your low back muscles (or a walker) to hold yourself up against gravity. As you can see from the video, the hamstrings lower the pelvis forward and pull it (and…
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15
2021
Why (and how) we treat you from head to toe.
You have come to see us for a problematic bunion. Imagine your surprise when I tell you I want to know more about your previous shoulder dislocation! I care about that injury — because it can be related to your foot issue. If your shoulder is loose from a partial or complete dislocation, your chest…
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01
2021
“The hip bone’s connected to the….”
When we say we treat the whole body, this is an example of what we mean: If you have strained or torn your knee meniscus (the thick cartilage pad between your thigh bone and your lower leg), we want to know how your ribs move. It can be hard to believe that these two things…
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11
2021
Improve your mobility without stretching?
If you are experiencing tightness in your left lower back, you (like most people) stretch to help make it feel better. But do you ever wonder why you need to continue those stretches, day after day, without the intensity of that exercise changing? The reality is that those stretches only address a symptom and not…
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