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 | Apr 25, 2023 | neck pain
“Has nobody noticed the embarrassing fact that science is about to clone a human being, but it still can’t cure the pain of a bad back?” – Marni Jackson Back pain, and lower back pain in particular, plague approximately one third of all adults in the United States. In...
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 26, 2022 | Pain Management
“I don’t believe in pain management anymore, I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.” – Michael Moskowitz, MD, M.P.H. There are a multitude of chronic pain types and a variety of reasons why people suffer from long-term or recurring pain. While we...
