Tough to Treat
Welcome to Tough to Treat: A Physiotherapists' Guide to Managing Those Complex Patients, with your hosts Erica Meloe and Susan Clinton, who discuss how they successfully treated patients that others could not.
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Solving Hip Pain Outside The Pelvis (opens the original)
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Pelvic floor physical therapy can be life-changing — but sometimes it only gets patients part of the way there. In this episode, I discuss a client who was referred to me by a pelvic health therapist after presenting with bilateral hip pain that pelvic floor work alone couldn't fully resolve. I talk about why I see so many of these referrals, and how the pelvis is deeply connected to other regions of the body that aren't always considered "pelvic" but absolutely influence pelvic function and pai
Shoulder Pain…Guess Where The Real Driver Was? (opens the original)
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Shoulder pain doesn't always start in the shoulder. In this episode, I break down a real client case where the true driver of persistent shoulder pain was actually coming from the lower extremity — not the shoulder itself. I walk through the theory behind this concept and explain how dysfunction in one part of the body can show up as pain somewhere else entirely. I tell you how I connected the dots and identified the lower extremity driver that was contributing to her upper extremity pain. Final
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