General Practitioners

• Arthritis
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Family Practice
  After medication and physical therapy the forgone conclusion is surgery. Spinal fusion surgery for low back pain has increased by 70% in the past 10 years. Are we improving outcomes as a result? Not according to the American Board of Family Medicine who determined that "Even in successful trials of these treatments, most people continue to experience some pain and dysfunction." And few if any return to some form of productive employment.

Neurologists

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Radiologist

• MRI
  Over the past 12-years, use of lumbar magnetic imaging (MRI) has increased by 307%. The problem with diagnosis by MRI is that it often results in alarming findings that are irrelevant. Did you know that herniated disks are commonly found in people with no symptoms? According to the Quebec Task Force study written in the mid 1980?s, 90% of the time a doctor cannot come up with an accurate diagnosis of low back pain. For a doctor to assert that your pain is a result of the bulging or herniated disk on your MRI image is his guess only. And more often than naught the solution offered to you is conservative treatment first, physical therapy, and then ultimately surgery. And your orthopedic surgeon can bet that you will eventually seek the surgery.

Surgeons

• Sciatica
  Despite the limited benefit of epidural injections and facet joint injections claims for these treatments rose by 271% over the past seven years. According to both European and American guidelines epidural injections may offer temporary relief of sciatica but they do not reduce the rate of subsequent surgery. And facet joint injections appear to be no more effective than salt solution injections.

Physical Therapists

• Physical Therapy
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• Tennis Elbow
• Ankle Sprain
  If you were to injure you ankle, say by a sprain, you would feel pain. Anytime you tried to put weight on that ankle you would experience the pain more intensely. Your doctor, your coach, your athletic trainer, your personal trainer, if they know anything, would not tell you to run on the treadmill to heal your ankle sprain. Instead, you would be told to elevate your ankle. You might be given crutches, or a cane to keep your weight off the ankle and you would be told to do this for 6-8 weeks. During the healing time your ankle pain would continue to decrease in intensity and frequency and you would always be reminded of your injury anytime you put weight back on the ankle and before it was fully healed. And if this guideline is followed strictly, your ankle does indeed heal.
• Back Pain

Podiatrists

• Achilles Tendonitis
• Ankle Sprain
  Any tissue that sustains a load that is greater than its inherent properties will fail. And any failed tissue will fail again and again when submitted to reloading. Think, again, of an ankle injury. If you can give your low back the consistent environment that protects the tissue from forces that cause pain, the tissue can heal. It is not easy. But it can be done. And with the right guidance your low back injury can be resolved in as little as 2-4 months.
• Plantar Fasciitis
  However, whether your pain is just in your head, neck, back, buttock, or down in your knees, ankles or feet, and no matter whether you have been diagnosed with arthritis, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, nerve root impingement, bulging or herniated disc., plantar fasciitis, or a mirad of other diagnoses, there is a method that can bring you to be pain free.