A right-handed patient comes in with mostly left-sided neck and shoulder pain. Sometimes the pain radiates into their left arm. I ask them, "Do you lean often on your armrest or desk when you work or read?"Read more
At some point, many of my patients with back pain will have a conversation with me about core muscle training – that is, learning to coordinate the deep trunk muscles that enhance the lower spine's...Read more
I've been reading a very good biography about my favorite musical composer, Johannes Brahms (if you don't know, I was raised and trained a classical music geek in my relative youth). (FYI, I don't...Read more
A teacher of mine reminded me once, "You can't fight gravity." He didn't mean that all we can do is fall down. After all, we were in a tai chi class. What it reminds us, instead, is to remember how...Read more
It would feel wrong to jump into my next series of posts without letting you know that I'm thinking of you all--my patients and colleagues--as we all hunker down under COVID-19 quarantine. I hope you...Read more
For years, it's been common for therapists, chiropractors, trainers etc. to introduce patients to lumbar "stabilization" (or "core") exercises for back pain. Typically, those exercises are performed...Read more
Just last week I just came back from Amsterdam--such an enjoyable city!--where I attended the 12th biannual Progress in Motor Control conference. I presented a poster there on an exercise-based...Read more
It’s unfortunate, but when we have to balance “I can take this with me!” to “it kind of hurts my body to use this,” the former consideration wins out surprisingly often.Read more
