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News from the Clinic: Medical Massage Helps Stroke Patient
A few months ago, I got a call from a thirty-five-year-old Hispanic female. The conversation should have taken five minutes but took about an hour. The reason this conversation took so long was the fact that it
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PERSISTENT LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN
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
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News from the Clinic: Swollen Ankle Joints and Foot Pain
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
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News from the Clinic: Mystery Foot Numbness
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
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News from the Clinic: Herniation
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
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News from the Clinic: Displaced Pain
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
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News from the Clinic: Tetraplegia
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
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News from the Clinic: Essential Tremor
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
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News from the Clinic: Back Pain
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
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Appreciation Award 2014
There are four major national massage publications in the United States, which is more than in any other country. Each publication tries to inform massage practitioners on a wide variety of topics. During 2014,
