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Is Manual Therapy a Gateway Drug?

Is Manual Therapy a Gateway Drug?

Manual Marijuana: Upper Cervical Spine Living in the great State of Colorado has been interesting the past few years.  It was not too long ago that we voted as a State...
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Mini-Blog: Extension Intolerance

Mini-Blog: Extension Intolerance

  Sir Robin Painful extension can be a common finding in LBP patients, and localized extension related pain can come from a myriad of innervated tissue, though for non radicular...
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Is "the core" a turn on, or a turn off?

Is "the core" a turn on, or a turn off?

  “Nipples to Knees”, that’s how Tony Horton describes the area classically referred to as the core exercise group. We hear it far too often in the clinic setting, schools, and blogs.  Telling...
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Joint Positional Error

Joint Positional Error

Seeing the World Normal Again: an investigation into joint positional error.   What if everything that you saw with your eyes: every detail, every color every interpretation…was slightly wrong!?!  What...
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Receding Hair Lines and Joint Lines

Receding Hair Lines and Joint Lines

... A Process of Life   Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder in the United States. Symptomatic knee OA occurs in 10% men and 13% in women aged 60...
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Psoas Conundrum

Psoas Conundrum

Mmmmmmm steak!  Recently my wife and I made the family menu transition to Pescaterian.  That one step above vegetarian that allows you to keep some type of meat in your...
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physical therapy blog

Load and Reload: Insight into Heavy Metal's Subliminal Physio Messages

Load. Re-Load. Common principals of the physio practice. Perhaps unbeknownst to the average metal fan, Metallica’s themes are often heavily laced with physical therapy metaphor, even to the extent of...
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RESTING STRESS FACE (RSF)

RESTING STRESS FACE (RSF)

November 7, 2015     I’m not sure the origin of this fellow but he looks a bit stressed. He is clearly alarmed, and ready to scurry off to somewhere...
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Youth ACL Injuries: Preventable?

Youth ACL Injuries: Preventable?

November 1, 2015   Youth ACL injuries appear to be on the rise. Adult ACL injuries have been the hot topic in decades of research in an attempt to reduce...
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Integrating Modern Technology into your Practice without Blowing your Client out of the Water

Integrating Modern Technology into your Practice without Blowing your Client out of the Water

November 1, 2015      Fads come and go in every industry.  Some change that industry, while most fall by the way side.  What can be difficulty is determining what...
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Changing Movement Patterns: not for the sake of correcting them, but for the sake of lessening inputs to all-ready sensitized tissue while continuing to load the body

Changing Movement Patterns: not for the sake of correcting them, but for the sake of lessening inputs to all-ready sensitized tissue while continuing to load the body

  Its a long title but the gist of what I would like to talk on today- with some fresh thoughts recently conceived at Greg Lehman’s course "reconciling biomechanics with...
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F.O.M. (Fear of Movement) and Changing Context.

F.O.M. (Fear of Movement) and Changing Context.

September 10, 2015   Do your patients suffer from F.O.M.? (Fear of Movement)… ? Is motion of the painful body part approached as if a heated game of Jenga is...
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Terminal Knee Extension- getting things straight.

Terminal Knee Extension- getting things straight.

TKE. Also known as terminal knee extension, for those not into the brevity thing. We all love a good acronym in the PT realm: WNL ROM w/TKEduring SLR and CKC...
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Standardized Sports Testing?? Have we standardized anything yet...?

Standardized Sports Testing?? Have we standardized anything yet...?

August 6, 2015 Sports performance in regard to prevention and return to participation is a common part of any orthopedic practice. It deals with athletes of all levels: from the...
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If the patient can't feel it, they won't change it

If the patient can't feel it, they won't change it

July 1, 2015         I may have slept through this lecture in PT school, but early on in my career I often mix balance and proprioception into...
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Visual Feedback with Shoulder Function

Visual Feedback with Shoulder Function

While there is not a great deal of literature investigating the use of external cues for visual feedback during exercise or assessment using lasers, there are resources that can link...
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