Posts tagged neck pain
Is This The Right Exercise for Me?

You’ll be sore anytime you start something new, so expect that. That should last 24-48 hours. Anything longer than that you've done too much. Next workout scale it back about 25%.

Outside of general soreness, your exercise shouldn’t create pain. This can be sharp pain in your hip with squats, elbow pain with pullups, shoulder pain with pushups, etc.

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Modic Change and Chronic Pain

What are Modic changes? Modic changes are inflammatory disruptions in the vertebrae (bones) of our spine. This is part of a process that happens after a disc has been damaged for a long time (6+ months). Imagine the discs in the low back to be like the soft, white of an Oreo and the vertebra (bone) to be the hard, black cookie. What happens with Modic changes is the disc will infiltrate the bone. The Oreo is cracked and the soft, white center is pushing through the cookie. This creates swelling, inflammation, and even fracturing in the bone.

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