by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Mar 13, 2023 | Back Pain
Go to physical therapy and ensure that you give it enough time (at least 6 months) If physical therapy doesn’t work and you have progressively worsening symptoms that are making your legs or arms go numb associated with muscle weakness then you may be a...
by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Dec 26, 2022 | Back Pain
If you’ve developed chronic lower back pain or chronic thoracic or cervical pain unfortunately it is possible for it to take a few years to resolve. How do I know this? I’ve worked with dozens of people with these conditions and I’ve seen...
by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Dec 14, 2022 | Back Pain, Exercise/Fitness
It is not normal to have lower back pain after deadlifts if it is a regular occurrence. If it happens once in a while it’s not a big deal. It is normal to experience some muscle soreness after deadlifts if you haven’t deadlifted in a few weeks or you...
by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Dec 14, 2022 | Back Pain
Countless articles on google and many videos on youtube talk about how you should be careful from deadlifting so that you don’t cause a disc herniation. There is no conclusive evidence that deadlifting causes a herniated disc more than any other...
by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Nov 17, 2022 | Back Pain
Degenerative disc disease is a bit of a misnomer and is not necessarily a ‘disease.” The long-term prognosis of DDD is quite favorable. Back pain is actually at its highest in people in their 50s, not in their older age, even though DDD is more...
by Dr. Nate Kadlecek, PT | Oct 23, 2022 | Back Pain
Degenerative disc disease (DDD), also known as spinal arthritis, is the breakdown, bulging, and loss of disc height over time of the intervertebral discs of the spine. Although it’s labeled as a disease, DDD is often asymptomatic (no symptoms) in most...
