Chronic pain is a debilitating condition affecting the quality of life of many of your patients. When patients experience chronic pain they feel physical symptoms that prevent them from leading a happy and healthy life. These painful patterns can affect your patients physically for months and even years. Many patients will also experience depressive mental…
3 Desk Exercises to Prevent Neck Pain
Poor health consequences such as neck pain, headaches, shoulder tightness, restriction of breathing, migraines, and jaw pain are associated with faulty neck posture. To save your neck, you need to be proactive of maintaining proper posture throughout the day. Forward Head Posture – a Pain in the Neck Forward head posture occurs when the head…
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Patients Suffering from Migraines
Migraines are characterized by enhanced sensitivity of the nervous system, particularly activation of the trigeminal-vascular system. From a public health perspective, migraines are a common disorder, an estimated 18% of women and 6% of men experience migraines on a regular basis. Migraine is a chronic condition with recurrent episodic attacks. The following symptoms significantly increased…
Are You Ready for Some Football? Get the Facts of Cervical Spine Injuries
Are you or your children susceptible to traumatic sports injuries? If you are, or if you know someone who is, consider the importance of sports injury prevention. What you do off the field contributes greatly to how you perform when the whistle blows. Well more than half of catastrophic injuries in sports are cervical spine…
Get the Research on Posture and Productivity
As observed through multiple studies, posture can have an overwhelming effect on our energy levels, hormone release, and overall productivity. Having the wrong posture while at work and habitually enforcing that posture overtime can and will lead to many negative and harmful effects to one’s health. This is especially true of those that do computer…
Have You Tried this Postural Correction Strategy for Neck Pain?
“I feel like I have a ton of bricks pushing on my neck. It kills me at work,” said Johnny referring to his job as a bookkeeper for the largest corporation in town. At week 9 of his complete postural correction treatment plan, Johnny began utilizing Posture Tape to assist in further structural posture correction,…
Posture Tape for Chronic Pain Patients
Johnny, age 41 had been coming in as a patient for 9 weeks. Johnny sought postural correction care for the chronic pain that he felt at the base of his neck and across both shoulders. As Johnny described it, “I feel like I have a ton of bricks pushing on my neck. It kills me…
Traumatic Sports-Related Cervical Spine Injuries
Marcus, the 17-year old senior MVP of his high school football team swears by the FITPosture athletic postural correction program. Marcus had suffered a serious injury the year before causing him to miss the championship game at the state tournament of his junior year. Marcus was devastated; he had worked so hard and yet finished…
Text Neck: the Health Epidemic of the Tech Era
Did you know that looking down at your phone while texting can cause dramatic health effects to your body? “Text Neck” is the condition of looking down at your phone for prolonged periods of time completely mindless of your postural presentation. We have all seen it… and we are all likely guilty of it. However,…
The Health Epidemic of the Tech Era
Did you know that looking down at your phone while texting can cause dramatic health effects to your body? “Text Neck” is the condition of looking down at your phone for prolonged periods of time completely mindless of your postural presentation. We have all seen it… and we are all likely guilty of it. However,…