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 We all tend to be in a more slumped position with rounded shoulders and an extended head, so working on bringing your shoulders down and back, tucking the chin in and having an upright posture will actually help alleviate a lot of stress when you’re sitting. If you have a desk job,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 »
Click to play My name is Sammy Stillse…I’m pushing 60 years old and I have a bad back. I’ve had trouble with it for many years and last March, in 2020 during the COVID scare, my back went out. I couldn’t get to my chiropractor because of COVID and I was pretty much laid upContinue Reading »
Click to play One of our frequently asked questions at Focus PT from our back pain patients is, “Am I going to have to do these exercises forever?” At the beginning of your time with us, we start the exercises. They’re going to be daily, sometimes twice a day, because we’re trying to bring your acute painContinue Reading »
