Exploring Shockwave Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide

Shockwave therapy has emerged as a promising treatment option for various musculoskeletal conditions and injuries. Understanding its definition, historical context, and evolution provides valuable insight into its efficacy and applications. What is shockwave therapy? Shockwave therapy uses acoustic waves to stimulate healing and alleviate pain in musculoskeletal tissues. These high-energy pulses are applied directly to…

Unveiling the Truth: Does Acoustic Wave Therapy Really Work?

Acoustic Wave Therapy (AWT) has gained significant attention in recent years as a non-invasive treatment option for various medical conditions. AWT uses high-energy acoustic waves to stimulate healing and promote tissue regeneration. This innovative therapy has piqued the curiosity of medical professionals and individuals seeking alternative treatment options.  The rise in popularity of Acoustic Wave…

The Mystery of Muscle Adhesions: A Comprehensive Guide

Muscle adhesions, often shrouded in mystery, are a common aspect of muscular health. These adhesions are fibrous bands or tissues that develop between muscle layers or around muscles, causing them to stick together. To better understand how to address muscle adhesions, it’s essential to delve into their definition and basic characteristics. Muscle adhesions may seem…

3 “Need to Knows” About Your Health Insurance

 We get it. You pay a lot of money for your health insurance, and you want to use your benefits. Here are 3 important things to know before you decide who to trust with your health.   1. Health insurance companies do not care about your health.  This may be difficult to absorb, but unfortunately…

What’s Your Pain Telling You?

| Pain |   It’s a problem. It’s a big deal. Pain is an indicator of muscle and joint damage, and it is warning you that whatever you’re doing has to stop.          Why do you feel pain? This is a common question we can get in the office, and a good…

6 questions to help solve your low back and neck pain.

Chronic Low back or Neck pain If you’re reading this, you most likely suffer from some sort of chronic low back or neck pain.  Ask yourself these following questions to help solve the problem: Is your pain worse in the morning? Does the pain get better after waking up and moving around? Have you had…

Numbness, Tingling, Aching, Burning Pain?

Nerve Entrapment The buildup of muscle adhesion (1st video) can cause an unfortunate problem called nerve entrapment (2nd Video). There are over 100 places in the human body where a nerve can become trapped causing symptoms of numbness, tingling, aching, burning and pain. The symptoms result from increased tension on nerves. Nerves transmit information from the environment to…

Have you been using your foam roller wrong?

We’re sure by now that you, or someone you know, has reached for a foam roller to help with that tight quad or aching back. And while it may have provided some temporary relief, you find yourself needing to foam roll more and more, just to get less and less relief. So what’s that about,…

What to do about symptoms?

We were having dinner with a physical therapist a couple weeks ago, and talking about what we did as clinicians to get people better. Both parties being in the manual therapy and conservative care world, we assumed he had an array of treatment options for people to help with specific conditions. As we got further…