In this video, I enjoy an evening with my wife, Susan, doing a progressive dinner across San Diego, California. My wife and I used a combination of ‘Bird’ scooters and rentable bicycles to traverse the harbor area and enjoy a diverse selection of restaurants.
We at Peak Performance Sports Medicine hope you live your best and are able to enjoy the opportunity for unique experiences where ever you are.
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Forward head posture is a common cause of neck pain for all ages. Especially with the prevalence of mobile technology devices we often focus our attention to things down and in front of our bodies. This promotes forward head posture over time and this puts stress on the cervical spine. That additional stress increases the aging of your discs and joints.
It is imperative to have ways to stretch the head and neck back into the proper position and its best to be able to promote restoration of the cervical curve (lordosis).
In this video, Dr. Robert Barton with Peak Performance Spine & Sports Medicine in Pasadena, Texas shows 3 ways to improve head posture at home. Just click the video below to watch, and don’t forget to subscribe!
Stretching your hip flexors can be very challenging.
This short Yoga routine helps to stretch the hips, the hip flexors as well as the hamstrings in an effort to promote symmetry within your pelvis. This can have tremendous impact on your low back and help to keep you even and balanced.
Do each pose for 1 minute or longer and pay attention to symmetry. For the ones that have a right and left, do each one for up to 1 minute.
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Patients often come into our office with pain in their patella tendon. The actual problem is rarely in the patella tendon itself. That is just where the symptom is. There are 4 quadriceps muscles (hence ‘quad’) that converge over the knee cap and form into the patella tendon. It is very common that soft tissue dysfunction in the quadriceps muscles are contributing to added stress and tension on the tendon which is what causes the pain. In this video Dr. Robert Barton with Peak Performance Spine & Sports Medicine in Pasadena Texas discusses this concept and treats with an instrument assisted myofascial release technique. Just remember, if you have knee pain sometimes you have to treat ‘upstream.’
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In this video I head to see my daughter Avery in College Station where she is a student at Texas A&M.
Admittedly I have spent a lot of time working and love opportunities to spend time with family to make memories.
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Forward shoulder posture is a common cause of trapezius (shoulder) pain as well as chronic neck pain.
Most importantly, forward shoulder posture is almost always accompanied by forward head posture.
Forward head posture puts additional stress on the cervical discs and joint. This can cause early degeneration and of course, pain.
This video shows how to assess for forward shoulder posture as well as 2 ways to stretch if you determine you have forward shoulder posture.
This can help improve neck pain, shoulder pain, headaches and most importantly preserve your neck from early degenerative changes.
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Spinal surgery can often be a scary thought for most people.
In this video, Dr.Barton explains the indications for a disc replacement vs a spinal fusion after participating in a 2 level disc replacement surgery using the Mobi-c disc implant. The Mobi-C implant preserves motion in the spine which can reduce pressure on the adjacent natural discs vs a fusion.
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