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15 Jan Know Your Numbers: Ankle Pain, Foot Pain, and Ankle Dorsiflexion

Posted at 19:50h in Ankle, Ankle / Foot, CrossFit, Foot, Knee, Knee Injury, Knee Replacement, Leg, MCL, Meniscus, Morton's Neuroma, Osgood-Schlatters, Paradigm, Patella / Femoral, Shin Splints, Testing, Toes by Dr. Chris 79 Comments

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 ...

28 Dec Dads Fail at Riding Hoverboards: A Look at The Baby Boomers’ State of Fitness?

Posted at 17:46h in Fitness, Paradigm by Dr. Chris 0 Comments

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...

14 Dec Know Your Numbers: Standards for Musculoskeletal Health, The Low Back, And The Touch Your Toes Test

Posted at 15:54h in Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Hip, Internal Disc Derangement, Lumbar Spine, Paradigm, Testing by Dr. Chris 6 Comments

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,...

03 Dec 11 Days of Breaking Open Chris’s Head

Posted at 14:48h in Emotional Life, Mind by Dr. Chris 3 Comments

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~Mary Oliver Me: How are you? You: I'm great. Me: The weather is beautiful today isn't it? You: My favorite season is the fall when the temperature is just right. Me: That's cool. I...

23 Oct Undescended Testicle: Being Naked to Be Real and Vulnerable

Posted at 14:16h in Mind by Dr. Chris 6 Comments

I was the kind of kid who kept to himself. There was no conversation unless someone else started it. The corner of any space was my refuge, where I could stay, observe, and learn about room dynamics. Surrounded by two walls, I wasn't blissed out in...

12 Oct The Soft Tissue Workout: Part 1

Posted at 16:33h in CrossFit, Paradigm by Dr. Chris 7 Comments

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...

08 Oct I Don’t Care About Your Herniated Disc … or Do I? (How Perfect Are Lumbar MRI’s?)

Posted at 13:17h in Disc Herniation, Disc Injury, Lumbar Spine, Research by Dr. Chris 4 Comments

Here’s what I had to say in 2015, when I was 5 years into practice. I don’t care about your herniated disc. Or your torn labrum. Or the arthritis in your neck. ~Yours Truly As I sit to edit this document in 2022 after practicing for 7...

01 Oct A Holistic (and Effective) Approach to Chronic Pain Resolution: Respecting Dysfunction

Posted at 09:00h in Paradigm by Dr. Chris 9 Comments

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...

21 Sep 2 Steps You Must Take When You’re in Pain: About Symptoms

Posted at 16:42h in Paradigm by Dr. Chris 5 Comments

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...

18 Aug When The Couch Stretch Doesn’t Work

Posted at 18:12h in CrossFit, Hip, Knee by Dr. Chris 5 Comments

Disclaimer: In this post, we will be discussing restricted ranges of motion and "tightness" with a standard stretch for CrossFitters, the couch stretch. In a Sports Therapy/Chronic Pain Resolution practice, diagnosing necessitates further detail in order to figure out why a tissue is restricted. Tissue...

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