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5 Tips to Ditch Your Back Pain
Who is this info for? This information will be valuable for you if you can relate to the following: You have been told you will always have pain and you are just getting old. You have tried exercises given to you by well…
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Slouching Does NOT Hurt Your Back
Posture, what it really means The word posture is derived from a Latin verb ponere, which tanslates to “to put or to place”. For some reason…
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“Are Dancers Athletes?”
The simple answer to this question is F#$k yes they are! And for any dance athletes reading this you need to see yourself this way as well. …
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What to Expect from a Visit to Kinetic Impact
What You Can Expect... At Kinetic Impact our focus is on keeping our clients active and pain free. Our holistic approach combines physiother…
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Is Caffeine Bad For Us
Is caffeine bad for us? Is there a certain amount of caffeine that is unhealthy? What does caffeine do? I feel like we get bashed nowadays f…
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Insulin Resistance and Diabetes: Are you at Risk?
Are you at risk for diabetes? You may be surprised by the answer after reading this! I wanted to touch on this topic because I read an artic…
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Chiropractic vs Physical Therapy: What is the Difference?
However we want to dispel this misconception once and for all. We sat down and talked about it. You may be surprised by the conclusion. If y…
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The Patient Experience: What You Can Expect Working with Kinetic Impact
"My pain got the point it was impacting my ability to stay active..." My lower back had been hurting off and on for more than year. I had se…
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Foods to Avoid When in Pain
We often forget all of the factors that can influence pain. The easiest thing to do is to blame the last activity we have done physically. T…
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Why Do My Muscles Feel Tight All the Time?
The goal here is to shed a little light on what's going on with your tight neck, tight back, tight anything really. This is a really common …
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If Exercise is Painful, Should I Stop?
Many people (especially when recovering from an injury or in pain) believe that if they have pain during an exercise, it is doing harm. Howe…
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What is Sciatica?
Sciatica is a symptom that causes radiating pain and is a result of injury to the sciatic nerve. This injury causes a painful response of th…
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Why Working Out is Good For You
What are the benefits of being physically active? For the most part, I think it is pretty safe to say we inherently know that exercising and…
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To Sit or to Stand? That is the Question.
I frequently get asked about sit to stand desks and what benefits they may or may not have. The numbers for people with chronic low back pai…
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What Can I Do to Relieve my Back Pain?
Back pain is a very common condition and causes more disability than any other condition. So if you are feeling this, you are not alone and …
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Ditch the Situps: Your Back will Thank You
By now most of us know that effective core training is essential for staying active and pain free. In an effort to build strength (and six p…
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Why does my shoulder keep hurting?
You are not alone: Shoulder injuries are one of the most common injuries, especially those who are active, are overhead athletes or who have…
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Can I Exercise with Low Back Pain?
If I was forced to answer this simply, a Stone Cold Steve Austin “Can I get a Hell Yeah?” would swiftly follow. Since we are here for me to …
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4 Ways to Quickly Relieve Tight Muscles (including detailed video examples)
In a previous blog Why Do Muscles Feel Tight, we talked about why your muscles get tight. Now we have a sense of what may be going on in the…
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Why Your Mid-back is Killing Your Golf Game
What is the “Thoracic” spine? The thoracic spine is simply the mid-back located in-between your shoulder blades. It is the portion of your b…
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