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The 25 Things You Must Know About Lower Back Pain
Earlier this month I presented at the IDEA World Fitness Conference. It is a conference I’ve had the privilege of presenting at for quite a few years. Fitness professionals from around the globe come...
View ArticleWhy MRI Findings Don’t Mean Much to A Corrective Exercise Program
The video below is taken from a live presentation that I did at the Fit Pro Convention at Loughborough University in England a little while back. The clip is from the presentation “25 Things Your...
View ArticleWeak back and lower back pain
The bio-psycho-social model to chronic pain is evidently clear in the literature and we have made great strides in applying this model to our clients and our teaching. What is also evidently clear, is...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise Four Point Rotations
When we prescribe a corrective exercise to our client, there are multiple factors that go into the decision making process. For an exercise to be appropriate for a client at any given time, we have to...
View ArticleAre Biomechanics Still Relevant for the Client in Pain?
This video shows a powerful sequence of 3 corrective exercises that we use at Function First that can positively effect lumbo-pelvic-hip function. Here is the second installment of the “Understanding...
View ArticleStop Lower Back Tightness in 1:00 or Less
Shopping is one of the activities that we most frequently hear about regarding aggravating our clients’ lower backs. And what do we do during the holiday season? We shop. The stopping and starting and...
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The Department Store Approach to Pain
Written By Kevin Murray, M.A. (pending) Movement Masterminds – CEO Function First – Director of Education 2012 CSEP CPT of the Year THE SIZING APPEAL The Small, Medium, Large concept to clothing that...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise Ankle Squeezes Prone
The Ankle Squeeze Prone is definitely one of our “go to” Level A exercises when it comes to addressing the posterior hip with the chronic pain client. Proprioceptively, it can highlight left to right...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise Wall Sit
This exercise is most associated with frying the quads for skiing and boot camps. But it can be a powerful corrective exercise for those with lower back pain. In this video, we provide 3 variations...
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The Four Seasons of Chronic Pain
Written By: Kevin Murray M.A.(pending), CAFS Movement Masterminds – CEO Function First – Director of Education 2012 CSEP CPT of the Year For individuals’ living with chronic pain, the long-range...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise-Half Frog
This simple exercise can be quite challenging for those with a history of lower back pain, as well as the deconditioned client. The ability to disassociate the hip motion from the movement of the lower...
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How Accurate Are Your MRI Findings?
We all want the best, most accurate information we can get regarding our health. And when the doctors and therapists are not getting the results everybody wants, they will typically order imaging...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise Wall Glute Bridge
This version of the glute bridge is a great corrective exercise for teaching the body the sequencing and synchronization from the ankle to the lumbar spine that is associated with triple flexion and...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise A-P Cat and Dog Rewind
In one of our past newsletters where we talked about myofascial mobility with rhythm, timing and amplitude, we revisited the Anterior Posterior Cat and Dog as one of the examples of applying those...
View ArticleCorrective Exercise Kneeling Aztec
Any exercise that requires you to match a force with a counter force to maintain stability, will be self regulating. In other words, you can only push or pull to a level that can be stabilized by your...
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The Haunted House Effect, Fear and Chronic Pain
Photos are the property of Nightmares Fear Factory This is an update from a post originally shared October 2015 The most current science on pain, tells us pain is an experience and not a sensation....
View ArticleCore-Tex Sit and Lower Back Pain
Hi, this is Anthony Carey. For almost 30 years my professional mission has been to help those in chronic pain through strategic exercise and empowering knowledge around the pain experience. As part of...
View ArticleLower Back Pain Relief
This non-technical video is directed toward our clients and readers of The Pain-Free Program or anyone else looking for an accurate way to perform this familiar, lower back exercise exercise. Anthony...
View ArticleFoam Rolling for Lower Back Pain
For as long as foam rolling has been around, it still seems that people are doing 90% of the same areas of the body and with the same moves. Having had the good fortune to speak on many of the facets...
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