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Am I In A Bad Dream?…I Can’t Move My Neck!
You wake up. Well rested. Sit up out of bed and BAM! You can barely (if at all) turn your head as a knife enters your neck. Sound familiar? It puts a damper on your Monday for sure ( or any other day of the week). You’re thinking “how am I going to drive to work. Let alone WORK!” What you are experiencing is not a bad dream…it’s what we call a “kink” in the neck. But what is it? Why now!? This condition involves a couple of things. 1). Locking or stiffness of a facet joint. The facet (pronounced “faSSet”) joints are the small joints that connect one vertebrae…
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You Don’t Know…What You Don’t Know
A common scenario I deal with as a PT specializing in runners: Said runner started feeling pain, kept running, tried new shoes, kept running. Pain got worse. Stopped running. Took Ibuprofen and iced…got a little better, started running…started hurting. Do you get the idea? The conversation goes like this: PT: “Hi Jon, what brings you in today?” Jon: “Well, the outside of my knee hurts when I run” PT: “What have you been doing for it?” Jon: “Well I’ve been foam rolling, stretching my IT band, and icing” PT: “Is it helping?” Jon: “Not really, I still can’t run well.” Probably the biggest hurdle in rehabbing a running injury is…
