If you play tennis, swim, throw, or do any sport or activity that involves overhead movement, your shoulder is working hard. Really hard. And when shoulder pain shows up, it's rarely a simple fix — which is why so many overhead athletes end up managing it for months or years without resolution. The frustrating part is that most of these athletes aren't ignoring their bodies. They're stretching, icing, taking rest days — doing everything they've been told. But the shoulder kee

Every spring the story is remarkably similar: a winter of repetitive gym work — same equipment, same planes of motion, same controlled surfaces — followed by an enthusiastic return to pavement or trails the first nice weekend in March. People lace up with the same mileage and intensity they had in October, and two weeks later their knees are angry. The body isn't deconditioned. It's just underprepared for that specific demand — and there's a difference. Your cardiovascular sy

Hip pain is one of the most common complaints I see — and also one of the most misunderstood. Patients come in having been told to "just take it easy" or having assumed it was an inevitable part of getting older. In most cases, neither of those things is true. The good news: the majority of hip pain has a specific, identifiable cause. And most of those causes respond exceptionally well to targeted rehab when they're properly assessed and addressed. Common Hip Pain Causes Are

Living and practicing in the Pacific Northwest, I have a front-row seat to this every year. We lose our trails to mud, our motivation to the gray, and our movement habits almost overnight. I've even had patients joke that their back pain is their personal weather forecast. And honestly? They're not wrong — I've watched snowbirds head to Arizona in January and text me two weeks later that they feel like a different person. If your back pain tends to flare up in the colder mont