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Stop treating people like dead

Stop treating people like dead

So, there’s this wild story about a co-worker who was giving therapy to someone in the ICU, thinking the patient was just super sedated. Turns out, the patient had passed away an hour earlier. Yes, you heard that right. The therapist was moving and bending a patient who wasn’t even alive. When they found out,Continue Reading »

Stop Asking Me ‘Where are you from?”

Stop Asking Me ‘Where are you from?”

When my patients recognize the difference between how I practice and other therapists, they almost always ask me these questions: Where are you from?Did you learn here or in Korea?Do you do it differently because you trained in another country? Well, thank you but no thank you for reminding me that even after over 20Continue Reading »

A Return to Old Routines: How to Sit

A Return to Old Routines: How to Sit

It’s no secret in the physical therapy world that daily activities can have a significant impact on our bodies, some being positive and others being devastating. After a long period of staying at home and living a more sedentary lifestyle than usual, our bodies may be quietly crying out for help. Maybe there’s new backContinue Reading »

All About Our Free Discovery Session

All About Our Free Discovery Session

Starting something new can be scary. Whether it’s starting a new hobby, traveling to a new place, or even starting physical therapy. It’s scary because it’s unknown—we don’t know what to expect or how we’re going to feel. Starting something new in healthcare can be especially nerve-wracking. Doctors with different opinions, choosing between invasive andContinue Reading »

A Guide to Physical Therapy Recovery 

A Guide to Physical Therapy Recovery 

I must admit, the idea that you may need to recover from a physical therapy session itself can sound odd and maybe even a bit worrying. You seek physical therapy to recover from an injury or chronic pain in the first place! Soreness and tenderness in the affected area after your first couple of physicalContinue Reading »

Stop Anxiety from Taking Over Your Life

Stop Anxiety from Taking Over Your Life

There’s no denying it: we are collectively in a season of uncertainty and change.  It has been one whole year since COVID-19 upended our lives here in California. That’s 12 months since the first lockdown. At this point, masks feel normal (making us comment, while watching movies, why are they so close together?), group gatheringsContinue Reading »

3 Ways to Bust Stress in 5 Minutes or Less

3 Ways to Bust Stress in 5 Minutes or Less

For many of us, stress is such a normal part of our daily lives that we have come to expect it. Yet, this familiar hamster wheel of anxiety isn’t good for us, and leaves us tense, irritable, exhausted, and perpetually drained. We lose patience easily, struggle staying focused, and constantly long for a vacation. We’veContinue Reading »

Want Treatment That Works? Try our Cash-Based Physical Therapy!

Want Treatment That Works? Try our Cash-Based Physical Therapy!

  We get a lot of phone calls asking questions about our practice. People just like you ask us what conditions we treat, sharing their stories of botched surgeries, recurring injuries, and unexplained pain. They ask us what “modalities” we use, referencing cold laser therapy or electro-stimulation treatment, desperate for anything that might help them.Continue Reading »

You are Worth the Time and Effort

You are Worth the Time and Effort

The other day, a patient shared with me the number of years that she has suffered with her pain. She told me how she just kept going, kept pushing through, until her pain worsened to the point that she couldn’t ignore it anymore. I commented that her journey with pain is something that I haveContinue Reading »

Stiff and Suffering from Tech Neck? Stretches can help!

Stiff and Suffering from Tech Neck? Stretches can help!

For a lot of us, yoga class isn’t calm and relaxing. We aren’t soothed by the prospects of dangling upside down or stretching our limbs into geometric shapes. Instead of breathing deeply, our panicked breath comes fast and quick as we feel like a giraffe being taught ballet or a hippopotamus attempting the splits. StretchingContinue Reading »

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