Tag: Acute pain

Acute hip pain: The case of Addison G.

Acute pain

Addison hobbled into my Neuromuscular Therapy office near Boston for emergency treatment for acute hip pain. For no reason that he could figure, his hips and sides were in spasm. He knew from years of experience that this was muscular pain rather than spinal nerve pain. I had only 30 minutes between other patients to […]

April 28, 2009

Foot pain from tight calves: A little known source

Acute pain, Chronic pain, Foot pain, Leg pain, Lower leg pain, Muscle information, Neuromuscular therapy

People with foot pain usually think of the condition called plantar fasciitis, but there is another source that is easier and less painful to treat. It’s caused by Trigger Points in the calf muscles.  Two of those muscles, the gastrocnemius and the soleus have referred pain patterns into the foot, one to the underside of […]

April 25, 2009