PAIN & INJURY
I played softball for years with a crew of trades guys. Same group, same league, most summers. And after a couple of seasons of treating half of them in my clinic, I started noticing something that had nothing to do with softball at all. These were guys who showed up
PAIN & INJURY
You rested it. You went to physio. You iced it, stretched it, wore the brace. Months later, it's still there. Here's what's actually going on, and why standard treatment often misses it.
TCM EXPLAINED
If you've ever had imaging come back clean and still been in pain, you already understand something important. The image shows structure. It doesn't show function. It shows anatomy. It doesn't show patterns. Western medicine diagnoses by finding structural abnormality, a torn tendon, a
PAIN & INJURY
Here's what most guys don't understand about shoulder pain in trade work: it rarely resolves on its own, because the body almost never gets the rest it would need to heal the underlying pattern.
PAIN & INJURY
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, chronic lower back pain, especially in working men, is one of the most well-documented and well-treated presentations we see.
PAIN RELIEF
In twenty years of treating working men in Vancouver: the body keeps a ledger. Every load carried, every awkward angle held, every repetitive motion repeated a few thousand times. It records all of it. And at some point, it hands you the bill.