In our current age of excessive sitting and sedentary lifestyles, back pain is an incredibly common problem — one that I experience myself quite a bit when I don’t take the necessary steps to keep my body loose. I was …
The Right Way: Stiff Leg Deadlift
The majority of orthopedic experts and Chiropractic physicians believe the stiff-legged style of lifting to be dangerous is quite correct. Although this brief article is too limited in scope to detail the mechanics of the lifting process, the discs between …
The Thing You Do Everyday That’s Setting You Up For Shoulder Injuries
We are how we move. Our soft tissue is always responding to the demands we put on it, willingly complying by creating tissue patterning that makes it easier for us to do what we do more, well, more. This means …
5 Common Squat Mistakes (Avoid Back Pain and Get Stronger)
The squat is the most essential exercise you can do, whether you’re goal is athletic performance, aesthetics, or general health. It simply requires the concerted effort of a large number of muscles in your body, and a number of muscle imbalances …
Alternative treatments for muscle injury: massage, cryotherapy, and hyperbaric oxygen.
Current evidence suggests that popular alternative therapies such as massage, cryotherapy, and hyperbaric oxygen exposure as currently practiced on humans have little effect on recovery from minor muscle damage such as induced by exercise. While further research is still needed, …