Are you used to having headaches and a stiff neck? Are the muscles underneath the base of your skull constantly aching and tender when you poke them? Let’s look into how neck pain and headaches can be connected! Cervicogenic headaches (aka headaches sourced from neck structures) make up a fair number of headaches, roughly 15-20% in our literature. While tension headaches and migraines can overlap with some of these pains, I think it’s helpful for my patients when we identify

Improving my patients’ hinging patterns is a quick and simple way to get some extra range of motion and weight shifting tolerance into a hip that they may typically avoid loading or need some extra weight in when regular stretches aren’t quite improving range of motion. A few quick tips I like to cue during the hinge: “Lean forward like you’re looking over the edge of a building”: This stops folks from habitually rocking backwards and limiting their hip flexion during the hin