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Your Healing Helps Others
Karma yoga is the yoga of action or work; specifically, karma yoga is the path of dedicated work: renouncing the results of our actions...
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Mar 7, 20211 min read
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LOVE can help with pain!
Researchers at Stanford have shown in a new study that love can mediate pain by stimulating the same areas of the brain normally targeted...
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Feb 25, 20211 min read
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Nutritional support post-injury
Although inflammation is a normal (and absolutely necessary) part of the healing process, did you know that in some people inflammation...
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Feb 24, 20211 min read
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Love yoga but hate your wrist pain?
The wrist is a complex structure and there can be many reasons for wrist pain and the "no pain no gain" adage is not always the best...
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Dec 1, 20201 min read
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Radio interview - listen here!
I was interviewed by Business Talk Radio on August 26th; get a listen HERE to hear about how hand therapy and holistic health coaching...
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Sep 9, 20201 min read
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How to choose the RIGHT mobilization orthosis for a stiff joint
Ever been faced with a stiff joint (stiff PIP joints anyone?) and not know which orthosis is the correct one for your patient? Do they...
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Aug 21, 20201 min read
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Love to garden but have wrist or hand pain?
Maybe you have popping and/or clicking in the wrist especially when turning your palm down? The wrist is a complex structure of 8 tiny...
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Jul 21, 20202 min read
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Terry Thomas Sign
Who? Terry Thomas was a famous British actor & comedian who became well known during the 1950s and 1960s and who had a famously large gap...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
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The always-tricky PIP joint
The PIP joint falls in flexor zone 2 and extensor zone 3 and is a notoriously tricky area of the body to rehab mostly because of the...
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Jun 29, 20201 min read
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Boutonniere deformity and the ORL Tightness Test
The PIP joint is prone to deformity with even slight alterations in the delicate balance of forces around the joint. Around the outside...
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Jun 11, 20202 min read
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Lessons learned as a hand therapist...
LISTEN, talk less See each person's pain, experience, and trauma as UNIQUE - there will never be another person like the one in front of...
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Jun 1, 20201 min read
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Elson's Test
DIP extension is NOT what you want if you suspect a central slip rupture! A test to evaluate integrity of central slip / to r.i. complete...
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May 28, 20202 min read
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