It might not be your knee that’s the problem. Your knee pain could indicate that you’ve got something else going on. You’ve asked the question. Now we’ll tell you the answer. Does Sciatica cause knee pain? In short, yes. Yes, it can. But how does that make any sense? Let us explain. It’s aContinue Reading »
Do you ever experience knee pain? Whether it’s around the joint, down the sides, or knee pain in general, we know knee pain can limit your everyday activity often leaving you stuck in the house or unable to get out of your chair. Well, if this sounds like you, you’ve found the right spot becauseContinue Reading »
Click to play Let’s talk about those New Year’s Resolutions and how PT will help you stick with them!Depending on your specific goals, say your goal is to get yourself healthier this year, taking better care of an injury or getting yourself back into the gym, physical therapy helps with all of these things becauseContinue Reading »
Click to play Working out is hard! It can also really hurt sometimes. With the new year, we’re all trying to push ourselves to improve. This means trying to start getting more active, getting more mobile and trying to commit to a healthier routine.When you start doing new activities, it is perfectly normal to haveContinue Reading »
Working out is hard!It can also really hurt sometimes. With the new year, we’re all trying to push ourselves to improve. This means trying to start getting more active, getting more mobile and trying to commit to a healthier routine. When you start doing new activities, it is perfectly normal to have pain. What makes itContinue Reading »
Click to play Dr. Renee Poirier here to show you a series of my favorite neck stretchesStretch 1Starting off with is your levator scapulae, which runs from the base of your skull down to your shoulder blade. So you take your hand behind your back, you look down at your armpit, take your other handContinue Reading »
Click to play This month, we have been focusing on neck issues. When we develop neck and shoulder pain, it’s common for us to worry and jump to conclusions! Is it this, is it that? Actually, it’s more common than you think! Nine times out of ten, our neck pain is coming from daily life.Continue Reading »
Click to play This month, we’re talking about neck and shoulder pain. Specifically, it’s causes and what you can do about it. Often, patients have no clue what caused their neck and shoulder pain. The reality is that there isn’t really anything wrong that caused it – it’s just your life! Posture, sitting at your computerContinue Reading »
Click to play Low back pain and sciatic issues that run down the leg are a large number of the diagnoses that we see here at Focus. When it comes to sciatica, what we want to do is distinguish whether or not you are flexion-based. This means, do you have more symptoms when you bendContinue Reading »
Click to play We end up seeing a fair amount of chronic pain in scoliosis patients that were diagnosed either as a teenager or later in life. Sometimes patients who didn’t know they had scoliosis until they were in their 20s or 30s and they’ve developed back pain from their scoliosis. With the curvature, you endContinue Reading »
