By Dr. Ross Turchaninov Two weeks ago, a 62-year-old female patient was referred to our clinic by her new primary care physician. For the last 8 months, she’s suffered from moderate-intensity chronic lower ab
Recently, I got a call from the dad of a tenth-grade student. His son intensively plays baseball. His father told me that his son had developed pain in the arches of both feet. We talked at length about his son
Recently, a 45-year-old patient came to our clinic. A year ago, he had a total left knee replacement. The pain in the knee affected by osteoarthritis was gone, but the active ROM was restricted. PT was able to
Report from the Los Angeles clinic: “The orthopedic surgeon was wrong twice” This story begins 15 years ago. One day, I received a call from a man who at the time was 62 years old. I will call him Mr. Jones
A few months ago, a mother brought in her 11-year-old daughter, who had a sore great toe. Since her daughter was in gymnastics, the great toe pain was having an effect on her performance. It was obvious that th
I had my first case of False Cardialgia Syndrome (FCS) yesterday. The day before, one of my regular patients was rushed to San Antonio Hospital from South Texas with acute chest pain. He spent three days in the
In our clinic, we frequently work with patients who’ve suffered from incorrectly applied massage therapy. Two days ago, we had a very disturbing case – a 35-year-old male with tetraplegia (partial paralysis
A few months ago we worked with a patient who had very unusual symptoms. She is a woman in her early 50s who almost a year ago was diagnosed with Essential Tremor of the upper neck just below the occipital ridg
By Curt Lezanic Yesterday, I had a new patient who got my name from one of my regular patients. She came into the clinic complaining about low back pain and loaded for bear, complete with recent X-rays and an M
Two weeks ago, we had an unusual patient in our office. The patient was in her early fifties and very fit. Four years ago, she did a lot of step aerobics and started to have pain on the bottom of her right foot
