by Pain & Performance Team | May 7, 2023 | neck pain
“Tennis Elbow is easily curable, and here’s how: Switch to playing ping-pong. Sure, the pain is still there, but now it’s Ping-Pong Elbow, and that’s so silly it might make you rethink your hobbies, which might turn you into a duck farmer.” –...
by Pain & Performance Team | Sep 8, 2022 | Pain Management
“We can’t avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things, and be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.” – Charles H. Townes. It’s almost a meme in our...
by Pain & Performance Team | Apr 18, 2022 | back pain
“If I woke up in the morning and nothing hurt, I would think I was dead.” – Unknown It is the stuff of jokes, humorous anecdotes, and light-hearted griping. Older people nod knowingly when their peers complain of an aching back and the imagery of waking up and...
by Pain & Performance Team | Mar 10, 2022 | back pain
While this sentiment may be humorous on its face, the truth is that many of us don’t do things that we might enjoy, or simply should do, because of a “bad back.’ Back pain can present itself in a myriad of degrees and locations. The structure of the human body we...
by Pain & Performance Team | Jan 21, 2022 | back pain
As humans, most of us take movement for granted. The vast majority of us have been moving almost thoughtlessly for as long as we can remember. For some of us, we may only have become cognizant of that after we broke a bone while at the playground. Suddenly, some of...
