Shoulder pain and X-rays – do shoulder x-rays mean anything? shoulder health

The most common myth about shoulder X-rays for shoulder pain

The vast majority of people believe that shoulder X-rays are a good way to determine what's causing shoulder pain.

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Stress, among other ...

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Hip Labral Tears: Everything You Need to Know About Hip Pain, Injections, Surgery, and Functional Training Solutions. femoroacetabular impingement hip health

If you’re experiencing hip pain, you might be wondering if it’s a symptom of joint damage and a labral tear. Read on to learn what the science says on the correlation between pain and labral tears, ho...

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How to improve scapular retraction shoulder health

Whenever we work with clients who have problems with their shoulders, there's one motion that we ALWAYS try to improve right away - scapular retraction. If you have shoulder issues it can often ...

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What do you need to do to fix anterior tilt? hip health

As personal trainers, we see anterior pelvic tilt a lot. As a result of our YouTube videos on different approaches and techniques relevant to training, we get a lot of questions about what’s really ne...

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How to Fix Pain in the Tensor Fasciae Latae (TFL muscle) anterior pelvic tilt femoroacetabular impingement hip health

If you have tensor fasciae latae pain, you've got an ache along the outside front of your hip. On this page, I'm going to share some crucial ideas to fix your hip pain, and I'm going to share a few vi...

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Shoulder Labral Tears Part 2: Does surgery work? shoulder health

In this article, we're going to look at the statistics and studies on shoulder labral tear surgery to help you discern the risks involved. To learn all about shoulder labral tears check out part 1 of ...

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Shoulder Labral Tears: Everything you Need to Know About Shoulder Pain, Injections, Surgery, and Functional Training Solutions. shoulder health

Upright Health founder Matt Hsu strengthens his shoulders.

 Learn more about how functional training can protect your shoulders.

 

If you’re experiencing shoulder pain, you may be wondering if you have a torn shoulder labrum. Read on for the science...

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Why Massage Sometimes Makes Your Body Feel Worse hip health whole body health

Massage and myofascial release are great for temporary pain relief, releasing tension, and to kickstart recovery, but you may need to add functional training to strengthen muscles and relieve tension ...

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How to sleep with anterior pelvic tilt anterior pelvic tilt hip health

How should you sleep if you have an anterior pelvic tilt? If you sleep in the wrong position, will it make your tilt worse? If you sleep in a good position, will it make it better?

If you have an ant...

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Are wide pushups bad for you? shoulder health

Often when people first start to experiment with wide pushups, they experience one of two things: either they have shoulder pain, or someone tells them that they should stop doing wide push ups becaus...

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Hard to get up from a chair? Part 2: Exercises to help you stand up hip health

This is Part 2 in a series. If you want a more detailed understanding of WHY you have trouble getting up out of a chair, check out Part 1 here. 


A quick summary of why it's hard to get up from a ch...

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Hard to stand up after long periods of sitting? Part 1: The WHY hip health

These days, a lot of people feel like it's hard to stand up after long periods of sitting. 

You're at the office, working on a report for a few hours, and you go to get something from the printer. Wh...

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