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October 2025 Low Back Pain: Most Therapies Offer Minimal Benefits In the May 2025 issue of REAL News, we covered a British Journal of Medicine report that demonstrated minimal benefits of physical (PT) or exercise (ET) therapy for those with chronic low back pain (LBP). In the September 2025 online Journal of Sports Physical Therapy,Read More
Fall 2025 Letter to a Client Something I have never done for a blog post is to write a piece entirely from a response to a client. To do so could compromise someone’s identity and medical issues and would be a gross violation of privacy and HIPPA principles. However, in this unique case, where theRead More
September 2025 Patellofemoral Pain and Squat Mechanics Patellofemoral joint pain (PFJP), or anterior knee pain, is often diagnosed when pain in and around the knee cap occurs while flexing the knee too much as in sitting down or rising from a seated position, going down stairs or hill, jumping (especially landing), and even just sittingRead More
August 2025 Nordic Hamstring Exercise Really Works! There are many reasons to strengthen the hamstrings – the muscles of the posterior thigh. The. hammies, as we gym rats call them, have been implicated in ACL and, of course, hamstring tendon injuries for years. We have addressed these here, here, and here. We’ve all seen eliteRead More
July 2025 Exercise With Knee Arthritis: A Necessary Option When you have osteoarthritis of the knee (KOA), your pain, swelling, energy, enthusiasm and even trust in exercise are affected. For more on KOA, check out here, here, here, and here. Yet the healthcare community knows it’s good for you; even you know it’s good forRead More
June 2025 Cold vs Hot: Which Post-Exercise Bath Works Best? We’ve all seen pictures of athletes waist-deep in an ice bath that purportedly reduces inflammation and allows for faster recovery from demanding workouts. And gasped. Whereas hot baths were deemed the gold standard of achey joints – especially of the lower extremities and back –Read More
May 2025 Ozempic-like Drugs for Childhood Obesity? From 2011-2020, obesity in the US increased to almost 20% of kids ages 2-19 years. Multiple studies have demonstrated that obese kids are likely to become obese adults, increasing their risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), heart disease, and many cancers. For more on childhood obesity, read this,Read More
April 2025 Collagen Supplementation: Save Your Money Dietary protein has been the rage for most of the 21st century in the diet/weight loss world. The agglomeration of studies addressing protein consumption for athletes has taken the conversation deeper into the weeds searching for which proteins are best for what purposes. See these past reviews onRead More
