This post was written by the Barefoot Torchbearer, Loren. She lights the way for our pain management clinic. Her story is one of enormous transformation (losing hundreds of pounds of body weight and regaining her ability to move well). Here, she offers a unique perspective...
Note: This post was inspired by my time discussing the soft tissue workout with News 12's 12 to Your Health segment hosted by Dr. DeSilva in New Jersey. Part 1 can be read here. The term "soft tissue" can confuse people. It means any body parts...
Writer's Note: This post is the long personal story of my own injury history and it has affected my perspective of pain, movement, and fitness. The hope is to convey natural principles of the human body and movement through that story to describe how vital it is to...
Note: This post on advanced pain management was inspired by Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, a book about the biases and heuristics that cause humans' thinking to fail. I highly recommend it if you're curious about psychology. The chapter on expert intuition provides guidelines governing whether...
Without an ankle dorsiflexion (knee to wall test) measurement, don't bother trying to get your ankle pain or foot pain fixed. ~Barefoot Rehab So ...
ERs across the nation are filled with our poor, uncoordinated fathers. ~Buzzfeed writer Rachel Zarrell The 2015 holiday season is going down as the year that Hoverboards crushed Dads, according to Buzzfeed and the rest of the social media stratosphere. #hoverboardfails Moms are laughing at their all-too-incompetent husbands...
Can chronic pain be prevented if at as early an age as possible, people were aware of the inherent risk in all of their musculoskeletal parts? Can chronic pain be fixed with understanding of musculoskeletal health standards (like the ability to touch your toes), the lifestyle choices,...
Author's Note: In Part 1 below, we discuss a paradigm for fitness that involves building a foundation of health and layering lesser ROI (return-on-investment) fitness attributes on top. In Part 2, we discuss the actual movements and how adhesion gets removed. -- According to the National...
Barefoot Rehab Admin: Hi! You've reached Barefoot Rehab. We can help you! Chronic Pain Sufferer: Hi. Do you give prescriptions for pain medication? Barefoot Rehab Admin: No, we don't. We fix chronic musculoskeletal pain. Chronic Pain Sufferer: OK, thanks. (Dead dial tone). There is nothing that breaks our hearts at...
If you're reading this, you either: a) are in pain in the present. b) were in pain in the past. c) want to prevent pain in the future. If none of the above apply, you can stop reading now. If you want to avoid symptoms (specifically, the symptom of pain) and...