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What causes back pain? The majority of time the answer is MUSCLES! Yet muscles are rarely considered when searching for the solution to your pain, whether it’s in your back, or any other part of your body. This is a major oversight! It is the reason millions of people are suffering not only from back […]

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

Since 2002 I’ve had an active forum on the www.julstro.com website. It was a great forum, with people posting messages several times a day, and because of it I got to virtually know so many of my readers.  I loved helping every one of them, and occasionally I’d even get to meet someone in person. The best

A stretch for sciatica pain has been given by many doctors, physical therapists, and massage therapists, however their success has been limited. A physician I was speaking to told me “there aren’t any successful treatments for sciatica!” and I told him…”yes there is, I’ve been teaching it for years!” We went back and forth a

Chronic hip pain, like any other chronic pain, can easily end your sport, or in the case I mention below, end an exciting career! As you may know, I’ve been the repetitive strain injury moderator for http://www.AllExperts.com.my for about 15 years – I’ve lost count. Occasionally I receive a message that is a common enough pain problem

A groin pull treatment that works quickly is easy to do —  when you know where to treat the knots that are causing the tension on your pubic bone.  Groin pulls are the most common sports injury for soccer players because the primary muscles involved pulls your leg to the opposite side. Every time a

The groin strain treatment discussed in this blog is especially important for anyone who either sits a lot, works out at a gym, or loves to ride a bike. In part 1 I wrote about the way muscles in your inner thigh – your adductor muscles – can be causing a groin pull. In Part 2

Tendonitis symptoms can hurt your golf score – but you can eliminate the problem quickly! As you play golf you are doing the same movement over and over. Just looking at the graphic of the golfer (and imagining how you feel as you play golf) you can see that every joint from your neck to

Twisted Knee Pain – A Common Golf Injury! Twisted knee pain is commonly caused by the torque your body places on your knee as you complete your golf swing. If you are a right-handed golfer, your left knee torques, and vice versa for left-handed golfers. While the torque is unavoidable if you are applying the

Stretching for flexibility and pain relief: the pluses and minuses! Minuses!  Are there any minuses to stretching?  Yes, there are….let me explain. All muscles originate on one bone, we’ll call the bone that is at the beginning of the muscle the “stationary bone,” then the muscle tendons cross over a joint and insert into another