This post explains the differences between chronic and acute pain, how chronic pain originates, the various factors that exacerbate chronic pain, and the current evidence based treatments used to treat i
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Rehabbing injured pulleys – My experience with rehabbing two A2 pulley issues
Important note: This article is written for A2 pulley injuries, but the rehabilitation concepts work for all pulley injuries. I’ve used it for anywhere from A1 to A5 issues in my patients/clients and recently for some A4 issues myself. This is also the same for lumbrical injuries and loading open
Read moreOvercoming Tendonitis
Update – My book Overcoming Tendonitis: A Systematic Approach to the Evidence-Based Treatment of Tendinopathy is on Amazon, and the digital edition in my store. Update 2 – Medial elbow (golfer’s elbow, climber’s elbow, etc) 8-12 week Video Rehab Program has been released! Tendonitis is one of the most pesky
Read moreBeating climbing injuries: PIP synovitis
Ever since about 2-3 years into climbing, the back side of my middle fingers (on both hands) would get aggravated fairly easily when crimping. This was more apparent in full crimp than half crimp, which is why I avoided full crimp for so long. This led to a weakness for
Read moreLow back pain: From crippled to 100% in 10 days
One of the interesting things about rehabilitation is that it helps as a Physical Therapist to have some sort of experience of what your patients go through. Unfortunately, I found this one out the hard way with crippling low back pain that was re-aggravated from a climbing incident. Cover image
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