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All Posts in Category: Mid Back Pain

JAMA – Association of Spinal Manipulative Therapy With Clinical Benefit and Harm for Acute Low Back Pain

Title: Association of Spinal Manipulative Therapy With Clinical Benefit and Harm for Acute Low Back Pain – Systematic Review and Meta-analysis My good friend who is a pediatrician in Wisconsin alerted me that JAMA produced a reasonable and sound systematic review and meta-analysis yesterday on spinal manipulation for acute low back pain which can be […]

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Jake Arrieta’s Full-Body Pilates Workout and a bunch of NFL players who take Authentic Pilates lessons as well!

The Chicago Cubs pitcher transformed from a struggling young pitcher to Cy Young winner by doing this routine.  Strong statement we know, but that comes directly from Muscle and Fitness magazine!  Lets look a little closer however at the stats leading up to Jake Arrieta doing Authentic Pilates. Directly from the article:  “Before discovering Pilates, […]

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What’s the opposite of a push-up? This pilates routine.

Dr. Kemenosh and his daughter Jill have been jumping back into Pilates with a vengeance of late!  Between the ELDOA Method and several different takes on Pilates, we have been watching videos from all walks of life improving their lives with exercise!  Check out Denver Broncos CB Kayvon Webster’s AM workout with True Pilates Miami! […]

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Calling all Philadelphia and South Jersey manual therapists! We are hosting SMART Tools with The Training Room!

Dr. Mark Kemenosh and Associates with the help of our good friends at The Training Room Physical Therapy group of South Jersey are proud to announce we are hosting the SMART Tools Level 1 IASTM certification at our shared facility in Washington Township aka Sewell, NJ.  We are putting the word out to everyone in […]

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How come your office works so well with other doctors? We were trained this way!

One of the hallmark reasons most of the associates here at Dr. Mark Kemenosh and Associates are excited to work on this team is because we do our best to adhere to the mantra of “do best by the patient”.  As you can see on this article from our alma mater, the National University of […]

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New guidelines outline how to handle back pain – American College of Physicians say the first line of therapy should be non-drug treatments

From the CBS News Review:   New guidelines from the American College of Physicians say the first line of therapy should be non-drug treatments. For pain lasting less than three months, those include heat wraps, massage, acupuncture and spinal manipulation (hey, that is what we do here at the office, combined with Active Release Technique). […]

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Up late, but always thinking, possibly dreaming, about running, so I did a search about the Hoka One One’s…

REPOST:  This blog was originally posted on 10/07/2014! I should probably be sleeping, but with all these local cross country runners from all over South Jersey and Philly coming in for Active Release treatment and performance tune ups, I just can’t help myself from reading and researching about running.  While I was searching, I found […]

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If you have been diagnosed with a disc herniation and you want to get better, you better not smoke!

While reading and trying to stay up to date on some research on intravertebral disc herniation, I came across a study by Tsarouhas et al in 2011 which stated that smoking resulted in more severe pain with disc injury which then also was coupled to a longer resorption time of herniated disc material and that […]

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Research Round Up: Excessive Progression in Weekly Running Distance and Risk of Running-Related Injuries: An Association Which Varies According to Type of Injury

Wow, what a study!  I’m sure we all are reading the running journals coming out of Denmark, but in case you missed it, a study was published this past month in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, Volume 44, Number 10, October 2014.  The title of the study was Excessive Progression in Weekly […]

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American Chiropractic Association – Today’s Fashion Can Be Tomorrow’s Pain

There was a very interesting article posted on the American Chiropractic Association’s website recently titled, “Today’s Fashion Can Be Tomorrow’s Pain”.  Dr. Kemenosh is a big advocate for comfortable and supportive shoe wear and you will know this because we almost always look at the footwear of our patients to see if the foundation of […]

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