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Welcome to my blog, Stop Pain FAST!  Over the past 22 years I’ve worked with thousands of people who have suffered from chronic pain and sports injuries.  In fact, the whole reason that I teach people how to self-treat is because I had several severe sports injuries and pains that came from repetitive strain injuries […]

I’m visiting friends in Southern Pines, NC, and today there is a cycling race – not a major one (according to Greg) but he’s using it as a training ride. The weather is beautiful, warm enough to go out and enjoy yourself, and cool enough that the cyclists will have a great ride. Fortunately Greg

This morning I was talking to a good friend who is an ultracyclist and I noticed that when he’s just walking around normally he’s still bent forward at the waist. We’ve worked on the muscles that pull him into the aerodynamic position and he’s much better then he was before, but he’s still a bit

I meant to tell you yesterday that the same treatments I described to help hip pain will also work to help the pain of sciatica. If you’re suffering from sciatica you know how widespread it can be. You can’t lie flat, and you can’t lie with your legs bent. You are in pain when you’re

Recently a woman came in to see me  who was suffering from severe plantar fasciitis pain, her arch hurt so much she could barely walk.  She’d been to several specialists and has so far bought three pair of orthotics (at $400 each!).  Plantar fasciitis is getting to be a commonplace condition in my office.  I

I travel around the USA teaching Julstro workshops to fitness trainers, athletes, and to anyone who is interested in learning how to stop pain from limiting their lives. One of the many questions I’m constantly asked is “What is Repetitive Strain Injury?” Basically, when a muscle is used over and over in the same manner,

So often a company is hit by high medical costs because their employees do a repetitive motion that will cause their muscles to shorten and put strain on the joints &/or nerves. Employees then end up losing work as they go to doctor appointments, physical therapy, and even surgery. Unfortunately tight muscles are too often

Lately I’ve had a lot of people telling me that they hurt more after they stretch than they did before they stretched. It doesn’t sound like this should happen, but it’s actually very logical when you consider what is happening. As you exercise, or do anything that is repetitive, a by-product of muscle action, called

I can tell that Spring has arrived because I’m getting more and more questions on my forum about chronic calf pain. This is a major concern for athletes and can stop them in their tracks.  I’ve found that while most people get calf pain from doing something that specifically causes a repetitive strain injury (RSI)

Yesterday I worked with a very fit athlete who had planned on running the NYC Marathon this past November, but was shut out of the race because of stiffness in her right hip. There are so many muscles that move your hip that I’m going to list some of them so we can talk about