The Top Three Strength Exercises Every Adult Should Master For Less Back, Knee, and Joint Pain
Building strength is THE most important thing adults aged 40+ can do to live with less joint pain and maintain their ability to do what they love (among a host of other health benefits). It’s also something that most doctor’s offices leave out of their treatment plans. If you are new to strength training it’s hard to know where to start. Which is why in this week’s article we look at the top three strength exercises adults aged 40+ should master for less joint pain and better confidence in their ability to do what they love.
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The Best Ways To Treat IT Band Syndrome and Run With Less Knee Pain
Our Iliotibial Band is a thick piece of fibrous connective tissue that runs down the outside of our leg. When too much strain goes through our IT Band it can lead to pain on the outside of the knee that can limit out ability to be as active as we like. This is common in walkers, hikers, runners, and anyone else who puts a lot of miles on their body.
At the clinic we help adults with IT Band keep active, strong and doing what they love. In this week’s article we look at the best things you can do to treat IT Band pain and run with less knee pain.
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How To Safely Perform The Squat For Less Joint Pain
The squat is one of the most important movements to master in keeping active, strong, and doing what we love. Not only is it a great indicator of full body movement and function but -when performed correctly - is a great way to build strength and protect our joints for less pain, arthritis, and overall dysfunction.
We teach this movement to almost everyone who steps foot in our clinic and have seen many of the mistakes that people can make when learning. In this article we’ll cover how to perform the squat and what to pay attention to to avoid back, knee and joint pain.
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How To Perform The Kettlebell Deadlift For Less Back, Knee, and Joint Pain
The kettlebell deadlift is one of the most important movement patterns you can learn and will save you from years of back, knee and joint pain. The kettlebell deadlift takes pressure off your joints by improving your movement patterns, increasing motor recruitment, and building strength in your hamstring and your glutes.
We teach this movement to almost everyone who steps foot in our clinic and have seen it all. In this article we’ll cover how to perform the kettlebell deadlift and avoid the mistakes that lead to back, knee and joint pain.
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How To Perform The Perfect Hip Hinge For Less Back, Knee, And Joint Pain
I strongly believe that everyone should have a solid understanding of how to perform a good hip hinge movement…ESPECIALLY anyone dealing with back, knee, or joint pain. This is a movement that we use everyday anytime we reach forward, bend down, lift something off the floor, and especially in most exercise programs. If we don’t’ understand how to hinge we’ll put more force on our back, knees, and joints which OVER TIME will lead to pain, arthritis and dysfunction….something nobody wants.
We work with people everyday teaching them how to hinge and avoid a lot of the common mistakes people make when learning this important movement…which we cover in today’s article.
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Top Three Causes of Joint Pain and Arthritis - What Your Doctor's Aren't Telling You
Joint pain and arthritis are a major concern for adults as they age. Waking up each morning with stiff and achy joints creates frustration and worry about what would happen if it were to get worse. A trip to most traditional doctors usually lead to recommendations of pills, injections, endless visits, or even surgery - without ever mentioning the most common causes of joint pain and arthritis in adults aged 40+. This leads to more pain, higher costs, and most importantly…a life limited by arthritis and joint pain.
In this weeks article we look at the top three causes of joint pain and arthritis that are most commonly left out of traditional medicine. By improving these three things you can save yourself from years of pain and dysfunction.
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Three Ways To Build Strength and Exercise Without Pain
When it comes to getting out of pain and living an active, healthy, and happy life, exercise should be part of the solution…NOT the problem. Unfortunately for many, their favorite exercise routine is actually the source of their pain. For every one day on, they have to take 3-4 days off to rest their achy joints. Without a clear understanding of how to move and safely build strength we end up putting too much force on our joints that leads to more pain and limits our ability to keep active. The opposite of our goal!
In this weeks article we cover three things everyone should know to be able to build strength and exercise without overstressing their joints so they can continue to build the strength and confidence to live active, healthy and happy lives.
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Why Stretching Can Actually Make Your Sciatic Pain Worse
Sciatic pain is easily the most commonly searched term that leads people to find our clinic. Unfortunately, the word ‘Sciatica’ has become an over generalized term that has come to refer to ANY sort of back and leg pain. The problem is that there are A LOT of things that can cause back and leg pain. In fact, MAJORITY of what people call sciatic pain’ isn’t caused by your sciatic nerve at all.
This confusion leads people to scour the internet for the best sciatic pain stretches, unaware that there are many conditions that stretching sciatic pain can actually make your pain WORSE. Which is why in this weeks article we look at when you should, and shouldn’t, stretch for your sciatic pain.
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Root Causes Of Knee Pain Most Commonly Overlooked By Your Doctor
The traditional approach to treating knee pain is NOT working. Pills and injections only mask symptoms and lead you closer to surgery. Therapies alone provide temporary relief but the pain always comes back. When these traditional approaches to treating knee pain fail - most people are being told it’s because of their arthritis, there’s nothing that they can do, and they should just give us their favorite activities all together. NOT TRUE.
Today we’ll cover the root causes of knee pain often overlooked by your doctor so you know exactly what to do to over come knee pain, keep active, and feel confident in your knee’s ability to do what you love.
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Three Tips to Solving Knee Pain - Even When Nothing Else Has Worked
Knee pain is one of the most common things that keep people from being as active as they would like. The problem with most traditional therapies is they fail to address the root cause of knee pain - leaving people with temporary relief that often comes back weeks (if not days later).
The root cause of MOST knee pain are movement issues that have been compounded over months to years. This includes how we move (movement patterning), how much movement we have (mobility) and our ability to control that movement (strength). If you don’t fix those three things, it’s a guarantee that knee pain will come back.
In this weeks article we take a look at three ways to improve movement to solve knee pain - even when nothing else has worked.
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The Ultimate Guide To Squat Progressions
The squat is one of the best exercises to improve movement patterning as well as building strength needed to protect our joints and avoid back, hip, and knee pain. When recovering from an injury or simply getting back into exercising it’s important to be able to progress and regress certain movements to meet you where your at and keep you safe.
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The Top Three Reasons People Feel Older Than They Should And What To Do About It
veryday we work with clients aged 40+ to keep active, strong, and doing what they love. One of the most common things we hear in the clinic, and a the driving reason that many people come to chat with us initially, is a thought that they ‘feel older than they should’. Usually it will be a big birthday or event coming up that will get them thinking more about their stiff, achy, and painful joints and realize that it’s not normal to have these things limit what they can, and cannot do. They’ll say to themselves “I’m turning 50 but I feel like I’m 80”….
Not a great feeling and 100% treatable and preventable. In today’s article we cover the top three reasons that people feel older than they and what they can do about it to start living active, healthy, and happy lives.
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Three Causes of Shoulder Pain Your Doctor, Physical Therapist, and Chiropractor May Have Missed
If you’ve seen your doctor for shoulder pain they most likely only offered rest, pills, injections, or surgeries. All can help with symptoms without treating root causes. Traditional physical therapy will often only focus on healing and strengthening the injured muscle - ignoring other contributing factors and almost guaranteeing that the pain comes back when you get back to your normal activities.
What if I was to tell you there may be something causing your shoulder pain that your doctor hasn’t told you about?
In this weeks article we’ll be looking at three causes of shoulder pain that are commonly overlooked by your doctor, physical therapist, and chiropractor and will explain while your shoulder pain just won’t go away.
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The Three Primary Reasons Our New Years Fitness Goals Fall Flat
It’s a running joke in the fitness industry. The New Years rush. The time in January when gym memberships spike, the number of people in the gym grows, and then steep fall off in February. Every year it’s the same thing. But why? Everyone know and wants to be more healthy, fit and strong. Why do so many people fail to hit these goals year after year?
In this weeks article we discuss the three primary reasons most peoples New Years Goals fall flat and what you can do about it.
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Three Reasons to Avoid Steroid Injections For Pain - Even After Your Doctor Recommends One of Them
If you’ve gone to see a medical doctor for chronic knee, hip, shoulder or back pain, I can almost guarantee you that you’ll be recommended a steroid injection for pain. It’s their go-to treatment when pain pills aren’t enough. When recommending injections they often conveniently leave out or brush over all the negative long term side effects that injections have that lead to WORSE outcomes for their patients.
In today’s article we discuss three reasons for you to avoid steroid injections even after your doctor recommends them.
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Three Critical Sciatic Pain Mistakes That Keep You In Pain with a Slow Recovery
Everyday we work with individuals to overcome sciatic pain and we’ve often found that there are a lot of misconceptions and false beliefs that can actually hold us back from making a quick recovery.
The following are the three critical mistakes we see people make when trying to recover from sciatic pain and some tips on what you can do to avoid them.
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How To Ease Sciatic Pain and Keep It From Coming Back
Here at the clinic we work with clients everyday to help ease the pain caused by sciatica. But even once the pain and gone and the injury has healed, most people still have a nervousness or worry that any wrong movement may set it off again. That worry keeps them from participating or enjoying the activities that they used to love. It’s the reason that it’s so important not only to help our clients ease sciatic pain, but to build CONFIDENCE in their bodies ability to handle the activities they love.
In this article we discuss what you can do to ease sciatic pain and keep it from ever being an issue again
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Critical Knee Pain Mistakes That Keep You From Being Active, Strong, And Doing What You Love
Everyday we work with individuals to overcome knee pain and we’ve often found that there are a lot of misconceptions and false beliefs that can actually hold us back from living the life we want. The following are the five critical mistakes we see people make when trying to recover from knee pain and some tips on what you can do to avoid them.
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Three Frequently Overlooked Ways To Work, Sleep, and Exercise Without Neck Pain
Neck pain is a common condition that keeps a lot of people from being as active as they would like. For many, the pain may not be debilitating but makes it hard to work, sleep, and exercise without that distraction that keeps us from being able to fully enjoy those activities. A lot of people try stretching, going to the chiropractor, - which helps, but has failed to fully resolve the issue.
Today we discuss three frequently overlooked contributors to neck pain and what we can do to correct them when traditional therapies haven’t worked.
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Why Do My Knees Hurt When I Run?
While a seemingly low impact activity - running can be one of the most injurious sports out there. And one of the most common injuries we see from runners is knee pain. We’ve been speaking to and helping runners get back to their routine for the last 10 years and today we discuss three of the most common reasons runners experience knee pain and what they can do to fix it.
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