BY DR. ARNAN SISSON
In our practice, I’d have to say our most common type of problem we treat hands down is back pain. And at first glance you would think that we’d be getting folks that had very hard manual labor jobs or people that just bent over the wrong way while lifting something very heavy.
Now don’t get me wrong, we do see scenarios like that. But in 90% of cases, that’s not what caused the back pain. Even worse in most cases folks have no idea where it came f...
Posted on 2018-09-06
Dr. Arnan Sisson
July 21, 2018
Excuse my bad pun, but it’s a very frequent occurrence for me to have a new client come through the doors here at Sisson & Associates and their back pain while driving is crippling. It may be that their going on a long weekend beach trip to Nags head or maybe just a short commute to the office. Either or the story plays out the same, while driving their frustrated because they can’t get comfortable while behind the wheel or when they finally h...
Posted on 2018-07-20
DR. ARNAN SISSON MAY 5, 2018
What Flattens Dough and Treats Knee/Back Pain? Strange question for sure, but it’s something that actually comes up in the clinic.
My practice specializes in treating problems of the knee and back. And a great tool believe it or not that can help these problems as well as flattening dough is……a rolling pin.
A lot of my personal clients that are on the verge of surgery or injections are looking for fast results to avoid these painful and exp...
Posted on 2018-05-05
BY DR. ARNAN SISSON PT (DECEMBER 30, 2017)
There are so many bits of advice that folks have had engrained in their heads of the years. This is what most of us would call Conventional Wisdom. While very often these bits of advice have truth to them, and can help us out through life. But from time to time Conventional Wisdom is missing the mark.
One huge misconception that I often see in my physical therapy practice is that folks think that holding their breath while lift...
Posted on 2017-12-30
BY DR. ARNAN SISSON PT (NOVEMBER 26, 2017)
I must admit this blog is long overdue. These last few months have been full of new, exciting, and time-consuming new adventures.
I’ve opened my physical therapy practice here in Montross, and have been seeing folks all over the area spanning from Colonial Beach, all the way up to Warsaw, and even Lancaster! It's been fun to open my practice and run it the way I wanted to run it. That means only seeing a single patient an hour, using n...
Posted on 2017-11-26
