by Mark Barnes, DPT | Jan 12, 2016 | Back Pain, Core Strength, Healthy Habits, Pain-Free, Sports Injury
What happens when your dream is to be the best snowboarder in the world and you get sidelined by debilitating back pain? Crashing at high speeds while learning to be a specialist in halfpipe and slopestyle took a toll on Jake Pates’s lower back. Pates has...
by Mark Barnes, DPT | Dec 28, 2015 | Back Pain, Core Strength, Healthy Habits, Movement, Pain-Free
When you’re in back pain, it’s hard to focus on anything else. You rest. You ice. You calculate every movement you make to make sure you don’t reaggravate your back. This may even lead you to avoid certain types of activities you enjoy. All because you want to get out...
by Mark Barnes, DPT | Nov 30, 2015 | Back Pain, Better Posture, Healthy Habits
Low back pain is only second to the common cold for being the reason employees miss work. If you are among the many people suffering from low back pain, you may be looking for an answer to which facts are real and what is false. Here are a few myths and...
by Mark Barnes, DPT | Sep 4, 2015 | Business, Education, Healthy Habits, Stress Reduction
Obesity is predicted to bump tobacco out of its title of leading preventable cause of death in the United States (CDC). With the percentage of obese adults in the US continuing to rise and the percentage of worldwide obesity more than doubling since 1980....
by Mark Barnes, DPT | Aug 19, 2015 | Better Posture, Education, Healthy Habits
Sitting all day can contribute to poor posture, which can cause back pain. When we sit with poor posture, we tend to keep that poor posture throughout the day which turns into our normal posture. Since we sit at the office, in the car, while we eat, and of...
by Mark Barnes, DPT | May 20, 2015 | Back Pain, Education, Healthy Habits, Pain-Free
Low back pain can be unbearable at times and nobody wants to go through the day suffering in unnecessary pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly prescribed for patients suffering lower back pain and inflammation. For short periods of time,...
