I find that a lot of people that we meet in the clinic day to day view pain as a pretty straight forward output. Something’s “broke”, so it needs to be “fixed” for the pain to stop. Unfortunately, as we had talked about in an earlier blog, it’s not that easy… Pain doesn’t nicely correlate to the amount of harm happening at a site, and can be influenced by a variety of other factors seemingly unrelated to what’s happening at the injured area. Lucky for us, we’re complex beings

Most of us have had, or have heard of someone who has had trouble with their “rotator cuff” at some point. Rotator cuff (RC) tendinopathy is one of the most common disorders of the shoulder, and tends to be one of the toughest conditions to manage. Those suffering from RC tendinopathy tend to have a longer period of disability, a higher risk of recurrence, and can tend to undergo a variety of invasive procedures without much long term success. So what is it exactly? RC tendin