Most doctors working in pain management are proceduralists. When speaking to a doctor about your back pain, knowing from Day One whether they wear a diagnostician’s cap or not can be an important early indicator in forecasting your recovery. As sports medicine and back pain expert Dr. Sean Wheeler shares
Dr. James Andrews is well known for performing orthopedic surgery on high-profile athletes from a wide array of sports. The subject of an ESPN story praising his talents offered this quote: “[Andrews] is the alpha doc at the center of a sports-medicine network that extends well beyond doctors. Every athletic trainer, physical therapist,
UPRISE, the new book of chronic back pain expert [and back pain liberation expert] Dr. Sean Wheeler, was the topic of a recent media interview conducted by Christopher Brochon of WFLO-FM in the Richmond, Virginia market. During an in-depth and revealing conversation with his host, and as revealed in his
Bubonic plague, or Black Death, is one of the great scourges of human history. In the 14th century it was responsible for the deaths of 25% — 60% of the European population alone. Today, while Bubonic plague has not been eliminated entirely, its effect on humans has been vastly downgraded from a
Earlier I wrote of the importance of your power to remain motionless in achieving liberation from chronic low back pain. As to many this is counterintuitive idea, lets discuss further. As each of us began our lives, to walk we had to achieve a degree of fixed stillness to acquire the self-directed
So many people are doing core strengthening these days and, in the past decade, we have physical therapists, personal trainers, and others who have become core strengthening experts. Fitness magazines regularly share the newest Best Core Workout for Back Pain, yet, there are an extraordinary number of people who work on their core and still
I recently shared my Google+ Collection — “Stretch It Out: Yoga and Pilates for Back Pain” — with fellow members of the Health and Wellness Networking Group on LinkedIn. The post sparked some interesting and intelligent thoughts, comments, and debate around the subject, and I thought I’d share some of
In UPRISE, it is by design that I focus on exploring and explaining how the Body Guitar — your unique human back, including the lumbar spine (low back) and Bracing Muscles — can get so out of tune before delving into the readjustment process, which I call Tune Me. Understanding the
I recently had the chance to join Wellness Practictioner Dr. Michelle Robin on her weekly radio show, Small Changes, Big Shifts. We talked in depth about the motivation behind my new book, UPRISE: Back Pain Liberation, by Tuning Your Body Guitar, a broken medical system that has not made any advances in
While reading the New York Times this past week, I was drawn to this story of how runners slow with age, and how strength training may help restore speed as they age, based on a new study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. To maintain running