When it comes to lower back, hip, and knee pain, we can get caught in a cycle of beliefs that can make our pain worse. Here, how mobility training may be the way to break the cycle.

Table of Contents

• Theories About Chronic Pain and How to Treat It
• Why Rest Isn’t Always the Best Solution
• Your Perception of Pain Can Make It Worse
• Working Toward a Pain-Free, Empowered Solution
• Why Mobility Training Works
• My Journey with Pain

When you’re suffering from chronic pain, you may search for the meaning behind your suffering, asking yourself What's wrong with me? Or What did I do to deserve this?

However, the meanings we ascribe to our chronic pain do not always help us get out of pain. In fact, the theories we attach to...

If you've never heard of the medical diagnosis "miserable malalignment" it's because it hasn't been discussed much until recently. The first time I heard about it was from a client. She was a physical therapist who had been diagnosed with the condition.

The right leg (left in the picture) has relatively internally rotated femur and externally rotated tibia.

Why is it en vogue now? Because a growing number of surgeons are starting to talk about the surgery as a surefire cure for knee, leg, and hip pain. 

But as we've seen with spine, hip, knee, and shoulder surgeries, the medical industry has a long history of overselling the benefits of new orthopedic surgeries.

So in this article, we're going to take a closer non-medical look...