Can You Fix Your Shoulder Pain By Hanging From a Bar?

Rule of thumb: if you hear that there’s just one thing you can do to fix a physical ailment, like those annoying web page ads that read “Fix XYZ using this one weird trick!”,  red flags should almost

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Are You in A Bad Mood Because You Hurt or Do You Hurt Because You’re in a Bad Mood?

One of my students at OU was never in a bad mood. And I’m not exaggerating. Whenever I spoke with her, which was fairly often, she had a smile and a positive disposition. If she didn’t get

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The Case for Doing Less

I imagine that some of you have had some ache or pain, visited a doctor and were told some variation of “take it easy, stop (insert activity), take this medication and if you’re not better in a month,

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Too Close to the Margins

Have you ever noticed that almost all print media – books, magazines, business cards, letterheads, etc – have margins? A space along the top, sides, and bottom? Imagine how much shorter some

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Common Exercises for Knee Arthritis that Miss the Mark

This arrived in my in-box the other day with the headline – “Five Easy Exercises that Help Knee Arthritis”. This type of advice is everywhere on the Internet and frankly is not all that helpful.

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The Ultimate Guide to the Most Misunderstood Exercise for Knee Pain

If you’ve had knee pain and seen a physical therapist, orthopedist, or personal trainer for help, there’s a good chance that you’ve been issued this exercise – the “Quad Set”. And as ubiquitous

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How Knee Joint Cartilage Heals

UPDATED: December 2019 “The way you see the problem, is the problem.” – Stephen Covey Knee pain is a problem but it’s not THE problem. Not technically. Knee pain is a symptom but

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What to Do When Things Go South

An injury, surgery, or body ache & pain can sometimes make you feel like life is trampling over you like a dog romping through your flower bed. And it isn’t always pain or swelling or stiffness

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Could These Running Shoes Save Your Knees?

Most exercise programs for people with knee pain focus on increasing muscle strength which makes some sense. The thinking is that if your muscles are stronger, those muscles will “protect”

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Injections for Knee Pain

     You may have either read or heard about "injections" for knee pain. The main driver for pursuing injections, for most people, is pain relief. But, as you'll learn,

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