BY DR. ARNAN SISSON
What is something that we’ve all come across in our lifetimes that ruin’s a day? That awful thing is…. headaches! It can make you kiss goodbye to a long night’s rest. This leads to tiredness and just an overall irritable mood the next day. It may be that your headaches don’t happen every night, but when they do hit you have to curl up in a dark room and wait them out. Or you may be going through endless bottles of Tylenol to mask the pain.
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Posted on 2023-09-08
BY DR. ARNAN SISSON
August 28th, 2023
There’s a lot of folks out there that have some sort of ache or pain and use biofreeze, heat, or ice. And I will admit these tools can be fairly useless if not used properly. There is a big misconception out there that they can completely wipe out pain by themselves. While this isn’t true, if their used in conjunction with something else they can actually be effective at getting folks off the medication, back to exercise, and just back to enj...
Posted on 2023-08-28
BY DR. ARNAN SISSON
If you’re a frequent reader of this column you may have noticed that I put a little phrase at the end of most columns that says, “movement is medicine.” At first glance it may seem that it’s just a good catchy phrase to wrap up everything. But I’d say it’s the basis of what I do to get folks back to playing with their grandkids, walking with their husbands or wives again, or just avoiding a painful/invasive surgery. It is somewhat of a G...
Posted on 2023-08-04
Dr. Arnan Sisson, PT | August 24, 2023
A patient came into the clinic last week limping with knee pain and asked:
“I’ve had this knee pain for a few weeks now, I’m not sure what I’ve done to it but I’ve tried taking Advil and that didn’t help.
I was trying to rest it so that it wouldn’t hurt, but whenever I stood up and started moving, it hurt again so I had to sit down.
Now I’m wearing a brace to see if that helps, but I can still ...
Posted on 2023-07-24
BY DR. ARNAN SISSON// JULY 14, 2023
Today we’re going over a very important piece of knowledge for anyone out there that’s currently suffering with any sort of neck pain. It’s the single most cause of neck pain 90% of the time. By knowing this you can get yourself or a loved one further away from the mounds of Tylenol and the fear of having to have a painful neck fusion surgery.
The most common position I see in the clinic that causes neck pain is a forward head post...
Posted on 2023-07-14
