Most patients who walk into my office have already seen another provider for the issues they are dealing with. And the majority of them didn’t see any progress with their previous provider. This leads many of them to come into my office and tell me that they won’t do rehab because they’ve tried it and it didn’t work. I’m not saying I’m better than their last provider or that other chiropractors are bad. The whole purpose of this blog post is to highlight some of the more common reasons why rehab or conservative care hasn’t worked in the past and help patients prevent that from happening in the future.

When swinging a golf club there are several different mobility demands not only required to perform a proper golf swing but also to improve your performance and hit the ball further. One of the most common areas of focus is hip mobility.

Flare-ups are very common when recovering from pain or an injury. Unfortunately, the healing process isn’t a linear progression. Throughout that process, there are many ups and downs, but that’s okay! It’s easy for us to have a bad day and panic. This leads me to step 1.

We often correlate the pain we feel to tissue damage. But this isn’t true for the most part. Sure, if you break your arm or have a traumatic injury then yes, you did a lot of damage and it hurts like hell. But for non-traumatic injuries, the hurt doesn’t equal harm.

A common injury I see in golfers and even weightlifters is golfer’s elbow.

What is golfer’s elbow?

It’s better known in the medical world as medial epicondylitis. Which is just a fancy way of saying inflammation of the inside part of your elbow.

Are your running shoes causing you pain or even injury? In short, most likely not. This is a very common thing I hear and we're often very quick to blame something small like our shoes for why we're having pain. So if it's not the shoes, why are you having pain with running?