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Exercises For Neck Pain

Exercises For Neck Pain

In this article I'm going to discuss and review a movement and exercise sequence that can be used when dealing with acute neck pain.  But to understand why we’re using these exercises, and why we’re prescribing them in this specific way, we need to start with some...

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Exercises For Hip Mobility

Exercises For Hip Mobility

When dealing with a painful or dysfunctional hip movement and exercise is a critical part of the treatment and recovery process. But we are of course going to need to use and prescribe different exercises for different purposes.  For example, we may need to prescribe...

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Heel Raise Exercise Progressions

Heel Raise Exercise Progressions

Heel Raise Exercise Progressions Heel raises are really one of the most quintessential exercises for the foot and ankle. From a tissue healing and rehabilitation perspective, it’s a critical exercise for conditions like achilles, tibialis posterior, or even peroneal...

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Exercises For Foot and Ankle Pain

Exercises For Foot and Ankle Pain

Exercises For Foot And And Ankle Pain Foot and ankle pain is a common presentation in chiropractic offices and other other health care clinics. In this article I’m going to talk about how to target an acute injury or a foot and ankle condition that is what we would...

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Exercises For Knee Pain

Exercises For Knee Pain

In this article we’re going to talk about acute knee pain, or more specifically, how to target an acute or sensitive knee with respect to our exercise prescription. As we’ve talked about many times in the past, when treating pain and dysfunction, one of the first...

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4 Squat Exercise Progressions

4 Squat Exercise Progressions

In this article I’m going to review my go-to exercise progressions for the squat. But before we get into the exercises I want to just set-up a few things. First off, let’s recognize that the squat is one of these exercises that often gets analyzed and debated to...

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Hip Internal Rotation Exercises

Hip Internal Rotation Exercises

Hip Internal Rotation Mobility Breakouts With mechanical hip pain, one of the primary objectives is to ensure there is adequate joint mobility. Remember, the purpose of any synovial joint is to allow motion between two adjacent bones. This is particularly important...

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Exercises For Acute Hip Pain

Exercises For Acute Hip Pain

When treating joint pain and dysfunction, the first priority is to develop tolerance to basic movements. So if we think about hip pain for example, if the hip can’t flex and extend, abduct and adduct, or rotate without hurting, that hip is going to have a lot of...

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Exercises For Acute Neck Pain

Exercises For Acute Neck Pain

Neck pain is a common presentation to any chiropractic or physiotherapy clinic. And prescribing home exercises to these patients is a key step in the recovery process. Remember, movement is a powerful stimulus to control symptoms and guide tissue healing. (Quick side...

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Advanced Lower Back Exercise

Advanced Lower Back Exercise

In this article series we've been talking about exercises to build lower back strength and endurance. In Part 1 we discussed the limitations of exercises like planks, bridges, and bird-dogs. In Part 2 we introduced the idea of loaded pelvic tilts as a better...

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Lower Back Strength Exercises

Lower Back Strength Exercises

Developing strength and endurance is a common goal in lower back rehabilitation. So many exercise programs here focus around trying to create a more “stable” spine. Here we see exercises like planks, side-planks, bird-dogs, and bridges as the primary staple in so many...

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The Problem With Lower Back Stretches

The Problem With Lower Back Stretches

The value of lower back flexibility has become a controversial and debated topic in recent years.  Many therapists and clinicians even hold spine flexibility as a less desirable trait. Something to be avoided. This stems from the belief that excessive motion leads to...

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Exercises Progressions For Scapular Control

Exercises Progressions For Scapular Control

The scapula is a critical link with shoulder and arm function. And because of the muscular connections, dysfunction here can play a big part with both neck and thoracic pain. But this is also an often neglected area with training and rehabilitation. So we're going to...

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5 Simple Exercises To Improve Hip Rotation

5 Simple Exercises To Improve Hip Rotation

Hip rotation is arguably the most basic and fundamental motion needed for a healthy and well-functioning hip. If a hip can't rotate it can't be a normal, healthy hip. But rotation is also one of the most ignored and under-trained hip motions. Here are 5 simple...

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4 Key Hamstring Exercise Progressions

4 Key Hamstring Exercise Progressions

We often think of the hamstrings as being tight and inflexible. As if they always need to be stretched. But adequate hamstring strength and endurance is also critically important. Here are 4 key hamstring exercise progressions to build strength and endurance in this...

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Advanced Exercises For Lower Back Control

Advanced Exercises For Lower Back Control

We’ve been talking about essential exercises for lower back pain. We started by reviewing essential exercises for acute low back pain. The goal here was to use focused movements as a way to control symptoms and desensitize the system.  Then in Part 3 we shifted...

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Essential Exercises For Lower Back Mobility

Essential Exercises For Lower Back Mobility

In the last article we reviewed essential exercises for acute low back pain. The key there was to control symptoms and develop tolerance to basic spine motion. Now we want to shift our focus to more general back pain cases. These are the patients that present to your...

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Essential Exercises for Acute Low Back Pain

Essential Exercises for Acute Low Back Pain

We’re talking about key exercises for lower back pain. In the previous article we outlined some critical concepts to set the stage for why creating focused, individualized motion at the lumbar joints is critical. Now we need to move into the exercises themselves....

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Essential Exercises For Lower Back Pain

Essential Exercises For Lower Back Pain

Exercises for lower back pain is a critical and non-negotiable part of treatment and rehabilitation. This is about as close to an agreed upon, universal, undisputed fact that we can get when it comes to musculoskeletal care. And this applies across the spectrum of...

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PAIN: A Modern View On Why We Hurt

PAIN: A Modern View On Why We Hurt

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...

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