Fascia is one of the most-important aspects of our manual therapy success. This connective tissue is in fact so important to peak performance and fast rehabilitation that we focused on it exclusively after first publishing the Austin Injury Recovery Blog.
Injury prevention has become a passion of mine. so I have been doing presentations to different groups on how to use a screening to identify an injury waiting to happen. We also cover how to address the issue before a problem occurs. If you’re dealing with an injury,...
Preventing the kind injuries I treat every day in my Austin physical therapy clinic has become a passion of mine. So I have been doing presentations to different groups on how to screen for an injury waiting to happen and address the issue before a problem occurs....
Aside from those who come to my Austin-area physiotherapy clinic with neck pain due to a trauma or car accident, I would estimate over 90% of my patients with neck pain develop that pain, at least in part, due to poor posture—many times related to working with a chair...
So Formula One is coming to the great city of Austin, Texas and there will be many people flying in from out of the country to see the races. These long flights can do a number on the body and especially the low back. There are a great number of things that can...
I will try to explain why we don't accept insurance for our physical therapy services as briefly as possible. But this is something I feel very passionate about, so I really don't want to oversimplify. If pain is keeping you from enjoying the active life you deserve,...
The newer patients in our Austin-area physical therapy clinic often tell us the term Manual Therapy is somewhat confusing. For that reason, we wanted to explain what the term means and how it's being used in various professions. The official definition of Manual...
Last Saturday, I had the privilege of working with the RunTex ATX TRAINING group. I wanted to help these runners with information about injury prevention that can help them as they work toward their inspiring goals. More specifically, I taught about hip muscle...
Patients who come into our Austin-area physical therapy clinic with a stiff neck sometimes ask if we can fix their "crick in the neck." The short answer to that question is, “Yes, of course.” But here's the what and how… If you are dealing with neck stiffness or pain...
So are you planning on “getting back in shape” this year? Every January, gyms, running trails, and “boot camps” see a flood of new people who don’t exercise regularly. And some portion of those people end up in our Austin-area physiotherapy practice with a painful...
Excluding the young athletes we treat in our Austin-area physical therapy practice, the vast majority of our patients have a job that puts them in a chair at a desk job most of each day. You probably don’t need a doctor to tell you that it's bad to sit around all day,...
Why does fascial distortion necessarily cause pain? For example, your fascia could have a twist, tear, separation, adhesion, or some other sort of distortion from normal. This can definitely cause you to experience pain, but only if the signals from specific types of...
I believe Fascia has so much more to do with musculoskeletal pain and injuries than most give it credit for. As I write about a variety of the injuries and conditions we treat in our Austin-based physical therapy clinic, a common factor in these discussions will be...