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As a physical therapist, sometimes the best way to learn about a condition is to experience it yourself.  I had a first hand experience of the pain and difficulty caused by cuboid syndrome.  I was not even a half mile into my run when I had a very sharp pain on the outside of my […]

As a practicing orthopedic physical therapist, I have seem many, many ankle injuries.  However, I have been working at a clinic that is known for it’s expertise in the foot and the ankle for the past 8 years.  Since then, I have seen even more foot and ankle injuries.  I have learned to treat some […]

As an outpatient physical therapist I have seen and will continue to see many, many patients with neck pain.  Many of these people are frustrated because they have had imaging but it has not shown anything really wrong with the structure of the spine.  However the pain is very real.  Most of these patients are […]

This is a question that I receive from many of my patients.  After all, having a shoulder SLAP tear sounds very strange.  In reality, it is a tear of the shoulder labrum.  As a physical therapist, I commonly treat shoulder labral tears and post-surgical repairs of the labrum.  Patients tend to have difficulty conceptualizing a […]

We have several patients, mostly athletes, that come to physical therapy after an anterior shoulder dislocation.  They might come for treatment right after the dislocation, or they might come months or even years afterwards.  A dislocated shoulder will cause looseness in the shoulder joint which leads to many other problems months or years down the […]

  I have treated several Bankart lesions as an orthopedic physical therapist.  Most have been young men that have suffered either a work or sports injury and most have been post-surgical.  However, not all Bankart lesions require surgery.  Read on to learn more about Bankart lesions and how to treat them.  Let’s start with anatomy! […]

I have had this question from multiple patients.  Their shoulder does not feel stable and, in many of the cases, it is not.  I have gotten use to relocating a slightly subluxed shoulder and the patient feels much better afterwards.  However, many times they will come back the next visit with it in that same […]

    The answer to this question is yes, there are cervical radiculopathy exercises that will help your pain.  Cervical radiculopathy is a condition in the neck that causes pain down the arm.  It is something that I have treated many, many times as an orthopedic physical therapist. The good news is that it usually […]

This was a question from a high school volleyball player whom I had as a patient a couple of years ago.  She had injured her knee during a game and was trying to play through it.  She had a grade 2- MCL strain so she was able to play but it was painful.  I had […]

  This was a question from a patient who I had recently.  She has knee osteoarthritis but not to the point that she needs surgery.  She comes to see me whenever she has a flare-up.  I help calm down her knee pain and she goes on her way.  This time she had something a little […]