Why Posture Alone Isn’t Fixing Your Neck Pain You’re halfway through your workday when you notice it again. Your neck feels stiff, the muscles across the tops of your shoulders are tightening, and perhaps you feel that familiar ache near your shoulder blade or at the base of your skull. What do you do? You naturally sit up straighter, pull your shoulders back, tuck your chin, and try...
Why an MRI Diagnosis Doesn’t Always Mean Surgery Is Next You finally get an MRI for that shoulder that’s been bothering you for months. Maybe it hurts when you reach into the back seat of the car, pull off a sweatshirt, grab a gallon of milk, or roll onto that side at night. Then you get the result: rotator cuff tear. Suddenly, everything makes sense. There’s a tear....
If you’ve ever suffered from a “frozen shoulder,” you know firsthand how debilitating it can be. Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, affects roughly 2 to 5 percent of the population, with women between the ages of 40 and 60 being the most likely to develop it. It happens when the capsule surrounding your shoulder joint becomes inflamed, thickened, and stiff, making everyday tasks like reaching overhead,...
At CJ Physical Therapy and Pilates in Portsmouth, NH, our goal is to help you live a pain-free life without pain pills or invasive procedures. Release the muscle tension and trigger points that are keeping your pain cycle going, without pain pills or invasive procedures. Talk to a Specialist For Free UNDERSTANDING DRY NEEDLING What Is Dry Needling? Trigger Point Dry Needling is one of several strategies we...
Pain can be frustrating and overwhelming, especially when it doesn’t go away. It’s only natural to seek answers – and for many – that means a trip to the doctor. But here’s the thing. Even the best doctors can miss the true source of your pain. Why? Because too often they rely on imaging (like MRIs or X-rays) focused on the location of your pain – rather than...
Pain is both a confusing and scary topic. There’s lots of advice out there on what to do when you experience pain and it’s hard to know who to listen to. Should you rest – exercise – apply heat – apply ice – see a doctor – get an MRI – or just wait it out to see if it goes away on its own? Any or all...
At one point or another, or perhaps even this very second, you’ve experienced tight knots in your muscles. They are annoying, nagging, uncomfortable, and quite often painful. The most common area to feel these knots is in your upper traps (the triangle shaped area between your shoulder blades and base of your neck). But other areas of your body that love to get knotted up include your mid...
I’ve been a physical therapist for a very long time — 20 years to be exact — and I’ve seen a lot of changes in healthcare over the course of my career. One of the biggest (and saddest) changes I’ve seen in my field is the overcrowding of clinics. As reimbursements from insurance companies go down, traditional physical therapy clinics have been forced to increase their patient volume....
Don’t assume that where your pain is… is where the problem is! This is a very common assumption and one that that we’ve been seeing a lot lately. If you watched our most recent Happy Hour on Facebook Live, then you know the story of the young guy who came to us looking for help with his heel pain. I checked out his heel, foot, and leg, but...
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