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In this video, Bob and Brad provide 3 excellent suggestions for lessening knee pain.

Learn stretching and strengthening exercises, lifestyle changes, mindful breathing and stress reduction techniques to help treat back and pelvic girdle pain, as well as other common types of pain experienced during pregnancy and postpartum.

Using Pain Neuroscience Education in treating people with acute and chronic pain is becoming more and more popular amongst clinicians, and for good reason. Studies show that Pain Neuroscience Education, in many cases, is more effective than prescription drugs at helping people overcome pain.

In this video, Bob and Brad show 4 excellent tools and/or techniques for improving shoulder pain. Shown here are shoulder exercises, shoulder mobility techniques, shoulder pain products, and more.

This book provides basic education, screening guidelines, and exercises for those affected by sacroiliac dysfunction.

Persistent pain is a global problem affecting millions of people worldwide. Physical therapists are in the ideal position to help assess and treat people experiencing pain, especially persistent pain, and this book shows how.

In this video, we highlight three books that are filled with information about relieving and understanding pain.

Here, Dr. Deb Riczo answers some of the most common questions about Sacroiliac joint pain.

Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine in Physical Therapy provides an evidence-based approach to moving beyond traditional movement interventions alone, by incorporating a comprehensive integrative and lifestyle medicine approach that addresses whole-person health for the successful treatment of pain and illness, and the promotion of health for all populations.

A tight glute medius can often be involved in hip pain, back pain and pain traveling down the lateral aspect of the leg. Here are some techniques for releasing a tight glute medius muscle.

Created by a Doctor of Physical Therapy with decades of experience working with shoulder injuries, the PRO Shoulder Support™ cradles the shoulder joint in a healthy position. By elevating and decompressing the shoulder joint it counteracts gravity and the weight of the arm, which helps decrease pain and soreness. By positioning your arm away from your body, it also allows greater blood flow to the rotator cuff muscles, which helps speed recovery.

Side planks are wonderful for lateral stability and strength, as well as helping to decrease the potential of low back pain. These side plank variations are sure to add new challenges and benefits to your core training routine!

Pain and tension in the hands, wrists and/or forearms is often linked to tightness in the surrounding muscle tissue. In this video, Derek Mikulski, BS, CSCS, CPT highlights a number of release techniques that can assist with general tightness and tension as well as more specific conditions such as lateral epicondylitis.

Create strength across the foot-ankle complex. Relieve foot tightness associated with plantar fasciitis and general aches and pains. Develop better balance and body awareness.

Tight hip flexors (quadriceps) can often lead to tension, tightness and pain in the hips, back, shoulders, neck and chest.

Dr. Yoav Suprun, DPT, demystifies pain by explaining the most common type of pain and how it works. He then provides strategies for functional movement, proper ergonomics and body mechanics, better posture, and reasons why joint replacement may not be a necessary part of getting older. Using anecdotes and examples, along with photographs to clearly demonstrate his suggested exercises, this book helps people age better without turning to more medication, injections, or surgery.

Sitting for prolonged periods of time can weaken our ability to sense our posture and "feel" our spine and pelvis succumbing to the effects of gravity. As a result, we often develop a slightly rounded spine, forward head posture, or other physical ailment that either causes pain or discomfort.

Looking to create more strength and stability across the hips? These safe and incredibly effective exercises will help the glutes, hamstrings and low back get stronger and more stable. These movements will also help ease low back pain, and are great alternative leg exercises for those who experience knee pain while exercising.

Looking to increase flexibility in the shoulders and upper back? In this video, learn four extremely effective mobility techniques that will help improve posture, decrease back pain, and allow for deeper breathing.

Try these suboccipital release techniques to help ease tension headaches and neck pain.

Help relieve tight calf muscles and leg pain with a simple stretch using the PRO-SLANT.

Lauren Roxburgh introduces the Body Sphere, which is ideal for balance and core workouts, self-massage to help destress, relieve lower back pain, and to activate the pelvic floor.

Lauren Roxburgh introduces her new self-massage product designed to help relieve muscle pain, improve posture and provide relief from a sore neck, headaches, lower back pain, and more.

Adriaan Louw performs a second education session with a chronic pain patient using the "Why You Hurt: Therapeutic Neuroscience Education System" to teach the patient how their extra-sensitive nervous system can be calmed down.

See how Danny used the McKenzie Method to treat his own neck pain without spinal surgery. Robin McKenzie's self-treatment system can relieve your chronic neck pain.

Physical therapist Diane Lee explains how the Com-Pressor™ is unlike any other sacroiliac belt. It's ideal for pain in the low back or pelvis, including the SI-joint and pubic symphysis.

Learn how Halo weighted headbands, under the advisement of a clinician, can be used to self-treat neck pain and poor posture.

With even more lumbar support, the SuperRoll is perfect for chairs, couches and car seats that are truly lacking adequate back support. Help relieve your own low back pain with Original McKenzie lumbar supports.

A majority of back pain sufferers choose this lumbar support to improve sitting posture and help relieve low back pain. Treat your own back pain with a back support and the McKenzie Method.

Get better sleep and have less morning low back pain by supporting your lumbar spine while sleeping. Side sleepers or back sleepers, the night roll helps relieve morning stiffness and nighttime back pain.