by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 26, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain
PART 3: Fear, learning, and pain From an evolutionary perspective, pain is a meant to protect us. It’s a tool your brain can call upon to help promote behaviors deemed most beneficial to survival of the organism. These were the key topics we covered in Part 2 of...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 19, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain, Pain & Injury
Part 2: Pain and the Brain So we’ve been talking about Pain. More specifically, we’ve been trying to understand what causes pain? The hope here being a better understanding of pain will lead to more effective treatments. In Part 1 of this article series we...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Apr 12, 2022 | Clinical Theory, Pain
Part 1: Re-thinking The Traditional View of Pain At first glance pain seems like a straightforward process. You stub your toe or break a bone and it hurts. This is how most people understand pain. It’s consistent with the patho-anatomical view that holds tissue damage...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Jun 18, 2020 | Our Blog
In my last article we started talking about the importance of knee rotation, which is an absolutely critical yet often neglected fundamental motion. There we covered why knee rotation is so important, and reviewed assessment strategies to go through with your patients...
by Dr. Jason Gray | Jun 4, 2020 | Our Blog
When we think about the knee we conceptualize it as a hinge allowing large ranges of flexion and extension. But the knee does not behave like a conventional hinge you would find in a door. The knee is actually classified as a modified hinge, and this hinge...
