Your best bet for eliminating back and knee pain s I was sitting on my Uplift stool, wobbling away on its rounded base while documenting my patient’s progress. She was a colleague whose sense of humor was quickly ushering her into friendship territory. Nevertheless, I wasn’t prepared for her next…

Is your anger a volcano or a balloon? Rethink your approach to this emotion. — I took up kickboxing the week or two before Lockdown March 2020. It would prove to be an effective method for caring for myself on several levels. It released my frustration, my mental fatigue, and allowed me to kick the crap out of something without impunity, without hurting someone, and…

When healing goes both ways in healthcare — What if the healing within a patient wasn’t all about the patient? What if successful outcomes occur, in part, because we practitioners get our eyes opened to the bigger picture of the journey traveled by our patient? …

And how they work together — Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, ‘Lord, if my brother keeps on sinning against me, how many times do I have to forgive him? Seven times?’ ‘No, not seven times,’ answered Jesus, ‘but seventy times seven…’” Matthew 18.21 Tracy was a healthy, active woman of fifty, who unexpectedly twisted…

Our mindset, coupled with pain, steals our energy and youth. It’s ironic to me that our culture spends millions of dollars seeking to evade the aging process, without truly understanding what aging and youthfulness are. The body is designed to age; we die to make room for new lives coming…

An approach to health and healing from inside and outside the Western Medicine box — Claire was seeing me for what I determined to be a frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis. Her condition was apparently instigated by a flu vaccine. It may have been poorly placed, too near her joint space, but it also appears that this year’s influenza vaccine had hyper-inflammatory effects…

It Is Time…Then And Now My Reflections On 9/11 19 years ago. That long ago? Wow. I was about to work out in the apartment gym in our quiet little foothill suburb in Southern California. It was 6 AM. Someone else was in the gym, just getting off of the…

Like us all, I have questions. But first, I am not an immunology or epidemiology expert, or a public policymaker for that matter. I appreciate the efforts of all of those who are the above. I respect them deeply. I don’t want to go on a rant. What I do…

And we need it now more than ever — What makes PT essential? If you ever had to deal with debilitating pain or struggled to function following an injury, you would probably agree a wholistic physical therapy service is essential. As the owner of a solo outpatient physical therapy clinic, I work primarily with both neurological and musculoskeletal disorders…