Joint Pain Articles

Design a Year of Abundant Health

A year of abundant health starts with setting smart goals and taking proactive daily steps to support your body being its best. Movement and exercise are both essential foundations to living your best life. Movement and exercise help you feel better physically, but emerging research shows they may also help

How Inflammation Affects Your Body

Inflammation is like a check engine light for your body. It tells you something isn’t quite right, and you should pay attention. The first step in discovering the cause of the problem is determining whether you have acute or chronic inflammation. Acute inflammation is short-term and critical in healing and

How to Treat and Prevent Tennis Elbow

Tennis elbow isn’t just for athletes. Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) is a painful condition when the tendons in your elbow are inflamed and overloaded due to repetitive motion.

Because of the motion that occurs when swinging a racket, it’s commonly referred to as tennis elbow, but anyone with a job that features repetitive arm motions may be at risk.

What is Chronic Knee Pain : Know Your Risks

In the intricate universe of our bodies, our joints – shoulders, hips, knees, and elbows – play the pivotal role of maintaining mobility and ensuring our active participation in life’s many adventures. But what happens when these joints start crying out in pain and restrict our movement? Traditional medicine often recommends painkillers, anti-inflammatories, or in severe cases, surgery

What’s the difference between your hip and SI joint

While the hip and SI joints are very different in structure and function, they share similar pain patterns, making it difficult to tell one from the other. It’s common to have SI joint pain mimic low back pain.

How to find relief from shoulder pain

Your shoulder is the most unstable and moveable joint in your body. If you have shoulder pain, here is how you can find relief.

Two Important, Yet Simple Tests For Low Back Pain/Leg Pain

The nervous system contains many different categories in many different ways. In understanding nervous system physiology, a simple but accurate way of categorization is to view the nervous system as two separate but integrated systems: The MOTOR nerve system and the SENSORY nerve system. The MOTOR nerve system is the nerves that move our muscles (motor).

The Many Causes of Shoulder Pain

Shoulder pain is a REALLY common problem in North Dallas. There are many causes of shoulder pain. Understanding what is causing your pain is helpful in finding shoulder pain relief. Sources of Shoulder Pain The most common source of shoulder pain arises from the muscle tendons and the bursa. Bursas

Not All Shoulder Pain Is Caused By a Rotator Cuff Tear

One of the most common causes of shoulder pain is a rotator cuff (RC) tear. To determine just how common this is, one study looked at a population of 683 people regardless of if they had shoulder complaints or not. There were 229 males and 454 females for a total

Suprascapular Nerve-Related Shoulder Pain

The shoulder is a very complex region that comprises multiple joints and muscle attachments. A strong joint capsular ligament, multiple nerves, and blood vessels pass into the arm to bring motor and sensory function to the hand and fingers. One condition of the shoulder that may drive a patient to