What Causes A Ruptured Achilles Tendon?

The sports pages are replete with disturbing stories about professional athletes who have ruptured their Achilles tendons.  The list includes Kobe Bryant of Los Angeles Lakers, Hall of Fame Nate Archibald of the Boston Celtics, Bulgarian World Class wrestler Anatoly Guidia and Dame Kelly Holmes; an Olympic Gold Medal Runner. Even Vice President Al Gore [...]

The Anatomical Neutral Position And Why It’s Crucial For The Health Of Your Joints

In many of my sports blogs on the Curing Chronic Pain website, I talk about your joints being in ‘anatomical neutral position‘. But what exactly is an ‘anatomical neutral position‘ and why is it so important that your joints are in it? Anatomical neutral position is simply the correct alignment of your joints.  To be [...]

Repetitive Or Overuse Injuries And Body Mechanics

If you are a sports enthusiast and follow the players in any given sport, be it hockey, soccer or baseball, it becomes obvious that certain players are predisposed to repetitive (overuse) injuries, while other athletes escape these type of repetitive injuries throughout their entire professional career. How is this possible? The answer lies in body [...]

Sports Performance Enhancement And Linear Body Mechanics

As an athlete, you’ve surely heard of sports biomechanics (the application of mechanical laws to living structures) and body mechanics (how the body moves) but most likely you’ve never heard of linear body mechanics. Understanding this concept  will greatly help you in your quest for sports performance enhancement. Let’s start with the definition of ‘anatomical [...]

Sports Performance Enhancement And Torsional Body Mechanics

As an athlete, you’ve surely heard of biomechanics (the application of mechanical laws to living structures) and body mechanics (how the body moves) but most likely you’ve never heard of torsional body mechanics. Understanding this concept this will definitely help you in your quest for sports performance enhancement. Let’s start with the definition of ‘anatomical [...]

Improving Sports Performance Through Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy

Whether on the court, in the gym or on the track, if you’re an aspiring or professional athlete, you’re continually seeking to improve your sports performance and most likely using the best trainers available to do so. But no matter how good your training, diet or commitment, you’ll probably reach a certain point in which [...]

The PreClinical Clubfoot Deformity Is A Leading Cause Of Incapacitating, Debilitating Muscle And Joint Pain

Incapacitating, debilitating muscle and joint pain – have you ever wondered how in the world you ended up with a body that hurts so very badly in so many places? If you’re living in a body wracked with muscle and joint pain affecting practically every joint in your body plus other painful symptoms which neither you [...]

Do Bone Spurs Cause Chronic Back Pain?

I received a letter from a former patient who was concerned about the diagnosis her friend (I’ll call her Julia) had received from a physician regarding the cause of her bone spurs and chronic back pain. Julia has a job that keeps her in the car, driving on California freeways 5 or 6 hours a [...]

Is A Child More Likely To Have An Abnormal Foot Structure If Their Parent Does?

Warning: The abnormal foot structures that cause chronic muscle and joint pain are inherited! A scared and distraught parent wrote me that her son, in his twenties, lives in severe chronic pain. She was beside herself with worry as he has the same agonizing symptoms that her husband had before he ended his own life. [...]

Sports Injury Solutions Using Rothbart Proprioceptive Therapy

If you’re an aspiring or professional athlete, you may be experiencing the frustration of an overuse injury.  And you’re probably painfully aware that overuse injuries are one of the most common reasons for a premature ending to a brilliant or aspiring career in professional sports. Though you’ve probably found that your sports medicine doctors have [...]

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