Did your doctor sit you down and tell you that your pain would go away if you would just lose the weight? Did you feel like your knees must be painful because you needed to lose 30 pounds or more? Did you figure that your low back pain would improve if you lost that beer… Continue reading Why do I still have joint pain after losing weight?
How to prevent pain and injury when cycling - 6 exercises that are beneficial for any healthy rider to stay healthy.
I had absolutely no idea what to expect when Baby Emma arrived in August 2018. I was soooooooooo nervous! I am a little on the older side for having a baby - my medical chart described me as "elderly" and "geriatric," which could really give someone a complex! I turned 37 two days after Baby… Continue reading Adventures with Baby Emma
Clear the cobwebs and pain from your head, jaw, neck, shoulders and pelvis with myofascial cranial techniques
I will be the first to admit that I have had to work very hard to become a better listener in my personal life, and it's definitely still a work in progress. I find myself interrupting or interjecting things into a conversation that might not necessarily be helpful or relevant, but they came to my… Continue reading The art of listening
Winter fun and tips for increasing safety and avoiding injury.
Hello! I have returned from maternity leave and am back to work at Solstice Physical Therapy. It is bittersweet, as I absolutely LOVED my time with my beautiful and sweet daughter, Emma, but I was also starting to get a bit stir crazy and missing work. These 8 weeks off have really reinforced how much… Continue reading I’m back!!! Tales from my pregnancy, delivery, recovery and return to work.
I feel like I have done some pretty amazing things in my life so far - I have traveled to many places around the world; I have gone sky diving twice and saw the world from above; I saw the world from below when scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, got my diving certification in… Continue reading The most amazing thing I have ever done!
TMJ (the temporomandibular joint) is the joint where your lower jaw connects to the skull. It's directly in front of the ear and can be tender on a lot of people if you push inwards just in front of the base of your ear. It is much more tender if you tend to clench your… Continue reading The dreaded TMJ – what can MFR do for this difficult to treat joint? A lot!
Physical therapists often work with people to help relieve headaches and migraines. When I was working in insurance-based clinics, we tended to focus completely on the upper body, because if we worked on anything lower than the mid-back the insurance company may balk at the fact that we were going too far from the pain. … Continue reading Headaches and migraines are such a pain in the butt (or pelvis)…literally.
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