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STAY STRONG, STAY STEADY: PREVENTING FALLS FOR WOMEN WITH BONE LOSS back exercises back pain low back exercises low back pain menopause osteopenia osteoporosis prevent osteoporosis Feb 04, 2025

Stay Strong, Stay Steady: Preventing Falls for Active Midlife Women

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Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury death for adults 65 and older in the U.S.
In 2018, 27.5% of older adults reported falling at least once, equating to 714 falls per 1,000 older adult...

YOU *CAN* DO IT back management back pain backpain modic changes Aug 15, 2023

Today I'd like to propose breaking away from some wording habits which may not be serving us anymore, myself included of course.

The words we choose to move through life with inform our brain about what's to come and how to react.

This means that what you say can either make your inevitable...

HOW LONG UNTIL I HEAL?? back pain back pain relief ligaments pain Jul 11, 2023

Understanding Muscles, Cartilage, Ligaments, Tendons, Bones, and Nerves and Exploring Healing Times for Each

Injuries happen.

Some of them like to stick around for much longer than we'd like and we're left scratching our heads trying to remember how long our last injury took to go away and how ...

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WHY YOU NEED TO WORK ON YOUR ANKLES AND KNEES IF YOU’VE GOT BACK PAIN ankles back injury back pain back pain relief knees posture spine movement Jun 08, 2023

Your body is a web of connective tissues, which are all connected.

When you feel pain in one area, it may actually be due to an injury in a different spot.

You’ve got muscular and neural pathways that connect your feet to your head and also link your ankles to your knees and your back.

Unfor...

Pain relief, back pain relief and prostaglandins

PAIN AND PROSTAGLANDINS antiinflammatory diet back pain back pain relief inflammation low back low back pain relief pain relief prostaglandins Mar 20, 2023

Did you know that a whopping 18%-35% of Americans are dealing with chronic pain?

That percentage varies, depending on which study you reference.

The worldwide average is around 20%.

I am the first one to acknowledge how fortunate we are to have western medicine, doctors and drugs to help u...

THE BEST DRUGSTORE PAIN RELIEVERS back injury back pain back pain relief ibuprofen nsaids pain relief Mar 15, 2023

If you’ve been dealing with pain for awhile, you’ve probably reached for some type of over-the-counter (otc) pain relievers at some point, right?

Even though you may have a couple of different kinds of drugstore analgesics in our medicine cabinets, your might not be quite sure why you’re taking wh...

BACK PAIN ACCOUNTING back pain back pain relief back pain remedy back pain sucks back rehab biopsychosocial causes of low back pain chronic low back pain exercises for spondy holistic back care low back low back pain low back pain relief spondylolisthesis Aug 01, 2022

You can listen to the Retrain Back Pain Podcast recording of this topic here

After reading the subject line of this article, you might be wondering, "What does accounting have to do with back pain and moving the way I love to move?!"

It's is not all about exercise do's and don'ts

Doing some groun...

femoral nerve impingement and lower back pain

WHAT’S YOUR SPINE GOT TO DO WITH ACHEY HIPS? back pain femoral nerve hip hip pain hips lower back pain Jun 25, 2022

Today we're talking about achey hips.

This topic was inspired by various Facebook back pain groups that I'm in.

I appreciate seeing what friends and colleagues are up to on FB/Meta, and I like to touch base with my interest groups too.

If you visit my Retrain Back Pain Group, you'll get updat...

Learn how to manage overwhelm if you have low back pain

HOW TO MANAGE OVERWHELM IF YOU'RE IN PAIN back pain back rehab back relief back surgery lower back pain pain spondy spondylolisthesis stenosis May 07, 2022

If you've got back pain, OVERWHELM can be a significant barrier to your recovery.

M.V.A. is your ticket to ride.

I’ll explain what M.V.A. stands for in a sec, right after I tell you about Bob.

I recently saw Bob, who is eighty-six.

I'm always impressed by Bob; he’s active, mobile, in generall...

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE INFLAMED? antiinflammatory back pain backfitpro chronic low back pain chronic pain ddd degenerative disc disease inflammation low back pain nutrition spondy spondylolisthesis therapy balls tune up fitness Mar 12, 2022

I was recently speaking with one of my 1:1 clients about inflammation when she stopped me mid-sentence to insist that she definitely doesn't have inflammation because when she "gets a cut, it heals quickly".

SO NOT SO!

Inflammation is actually referred to as The Silent Killer...

Inflammation ofte...

HOW TO STOP YOUR BACK FROM HURTING back pain back pain relief ddd low back pain sijd spondy spondylolisthesis stenosis Mar 02, 2022

How can you stop your back from hurting if you can’t stop hurting your back?

The number one way to stop your back from hurting is to stop hurting your back.

I don't mean to sound smug, but you know, sometimes the simplest things can have really profound effects

I catch many of my cli

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DOES POSTURE MATTER? anterolisthesis back pain back pain relief ergonomics low back pain retrolisthesis sitting sitting posture spinal fusion spine spondy spondylitis spondylolisthesis wfh Jan 28, 2022

Reprinted, with permission, from my Australian colleague, Dr. Andrew Locke.

Dr. Andrew's response to the question "Does posture matter?" was intended for the professionals spewing nonsense all over social media on this topic.

Instead of re-writing the whole shebang, I've just added a few [notes in...

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