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The way the majority of our healthcare system treats pain is based on a 400 year old paradigm from the French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist Rene Descartes, and is described in his classic picture of a man with his foot by a fire. According to Descartes, if...

One of the more unfortunate and expensive situations in musculoskeletal medicine is that of the Undetected Centralizer. A centralizer refers to someone with whom spinal pain and referred symptoms down an extremity, for example sciatica, are able to have their pain...

When we run, swim, and do most other sports and activities, we have a lot of variability in our freedom of movement. Cycling is a constrained sport, yet it is also somewhat dynamic. What I mean by this is when you are on the bike, you don’t have a lot of variability...

While running has been shown to be extremely beneficial to overall health, including lowering the incidence of heart disease, relieving depression, increasing bone density, maintaining a healthy weight, and strengthening the immune system, it is also commonly thought...

Is the source of your extremity joint pain actually the spine? If it is, how would you be able to know? A McKenzie Method aka Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) Assessment would be your best bet. A recent study with a sample size of over 300 patients who had...

Movement in general is great for people in pain. If you move in the right direction, however, it can make a tremendous difference. So how do you find this direction? A McKenzie Method aka Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) Assessment. If your condition has what is...