Revive Injury and Wellness Blog
Can Old Injuries Cause New Pain Years Later
An injury can stop hurting long before the body fully returns to its previous movement pattern. A car accident in your twenties, an ankle sprain from high school, or a shoulder injury from years of sports may seem unrelated to pain that appears much later. During an evaluation, however, these older injuries can provide useful…
Why Does My Body Feel More Stiff After I Stop Exercising?
The stiffness that develops after stopping regular exercise surprises people in a way that the original stiffness from starting exercise doesn’t. Starting is supposed to be the hard part. The body is supposed to get easier to live in as fitness improves, and the logic suggests that stopping shouldn’t produce a worse physical experience than starting did.…
Why Active Adults Over 40 Experience More Joint Stiffness Than They Expect
Most active adults over 40 expect some degree of physical change as they age. What they don’t expect is the rate of it or the specific way it shows up — not in the muscles they’ve been training, not in the cardiovascular capacity they’ve been maintaining, but in the joints that connect everything and that have been…
Can Poor Foot Mechanics Cause Back and Hip Pain?
The connection between foot mechanics and back and hip pain is one of the most consistently overlooked relationships in musculoskeletal health. People experiencing lower back pain get their lower back examined. People with hip pain get their hip examined. The foot, which is the foundation that the entire kinetic chain is built on, and the first structure…
Is it normal for pain to move around your back and hips?
Moving pain is confusing because it contradicts the intuitive model of how something wrong in the body is supposed to work. It hurts; it should hurt in one place, and that place should either get better or worse. Pain that migrates from the lower back one day to the hip the next, that switches sides, that seems…
Why does my neck feel stiff and tight every morning?
Waking up with a stiff neck often gets dismissed as one of those things that happens sometimes and resolves on its own, which it sometimes does. The pattern worth paying attention to is the one that happens most mornings, that takes an hour or two to work out, and that’s been running long enough that it’s…