5 Of The Best Stretches For Lower Back Pain To Stay Active In The Community

Are you usually an active member of the community? Getting involved in your children’s school projects or local farmers’ markets, but currently finding it difficult to help out as much as you’d like because of your lower back pain? If your pain is consistent or comes and goes, you’ve likely learned to live with it.…

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Is a Sitting Job Lethal? How To Keep Desk Work From Literally Shaving Years Off Your Life

Excluding the young athletes we treat in our DFW-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, but some interesting…

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Healthy Spine 1: Sciatica Sufferers… Is ‘Stretching’ Making Your Pain Worse?

“I’ve had pain in my right hip and down back of leg for nearly 2 years, there’s no hope for me.”   Said a frustrated Donna (age 51), who injured her back during a ‘boot-camp’ exercise class almost 2 years ago… She’d been suffering from that deep ‘tooth-ache’ like feeling in her right hip (literally a…

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Is There Anything That Can Help the Pain Down the Back of My Leg?

“I have pain down the back of my leg, it’s been there for 2 years and all the doctor does is give me pills and injections, but it won’t go away. There is nothing that can help!” Or is there? I recently talked to a lady at church who told me her story. She was…

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Do You Ever Feel “There Is No Hope for Me” ?

Do you ever feel like “There is no hope, nothing can be done to help me” ? If you feel that today… Read what this lady told me yesterday. Yesterday on the phone a lady told me “There is no hope for change, nothing can be done to help the pain or the struggle to…

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Have You Been Told This About Surgery and Pills?

“My only good options are surgery and/or pills to help me” Is this what you think? Is this actually true? Years ago when I worked in a hospital based PT clinic, I would hear this every week. Many people don’t really believe that there are really any other options than surgery or pills. But is…

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7 Great Things to Do in DFW if You Didn’t Have Back Trouble

There really is a TON of amazing things to do in the DFW area with your family or friends, but unfortunately there are people here in DFW who find it really hard or impossible to enjoy these attractions due to suffering from back trouble. Click here to read the blog or click the video and…

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