June 2011

This article below was published in the May-June 2011 Issue of JACA and provides useful tips and know how regarding sleep as it relates to neck and low back pain and pregnancy. Lori Burkhart, ACA director of publications Proper Sleep Ergonomics J...

 By Dr. Matt Fontaine When soft tissues are stressed beyond their biomechanical yield strength (for example when a tendon is stretched more than 4% of it’s resting length), microtearing must occur.  The normal response of microtearing of muscle, fascia, collagen etc. is inflammation.  If the...