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Chronic Pain Review pain relief physical therapy Apr 08, 2018

Thank you for walking with me through this blog series on chronic pain. I hope you have foun

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome pain relief physical therapy Apr 01, 2018

(formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) occurs after...

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Neck Pain neck and shoulder pain pain relief Mar 26, 2018

Neck pain typically comes in two flavors – Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD) and nontraumatic neck ...

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Low Back Pain back pain pain relief Sep 19, 2017

Dear Friends,

I cannot believe that I find myself writing a blog about low back pain. The interweb ...

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TMJ (Pain in your Jaw!) & Headaches headaches pain relief physical therapy Sep 12, 2017

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) involve pain and dysfunction around the TMJ (your jaw) and jaw mus...

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Myofascial Pain & Fibromyalgia Syndrome pain relief physical therapy Sep 05, 2017

Myofascial pain has been estimated to be the source of pain in 85% of patients attending a pain cent...

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Manual Therapy pain relief physical therapy Aug 28, 2017

Manual Therapy is the art of knowing what tissue needs to be moved in which direction combined with ...

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Decreasing Chronic Pain pain relief physical therapy Aug 21, 2017

One hundred million adults in America suffer from chronic pain. This is greater than the number of i...

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To brace your abs or not to brace your abs? pain relief physical therapy Aug 08, 2017

As we are talking about chronic pain in this series of blog articles, it is critical to talk about h...

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Explaining Chronic Pain pain relief physical therapy Jul 30, 2017

Chronic pain involves changes in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) which conveys nociceptive infor...

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Acute versus Chronic Pain pain relief physical therapy Jul 23, 2017

The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and...

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The Importance of Education pain relief physical therapy Apr 05, 2017

When on a family vacation, my sacroiliac joint (near the tailbone) went out of place causing extreme...

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