Tag Archives: Dr. Chad Moreau
Back to Function Health & Fitness Home Exercise Program
You don’t need an expensive fitness facility membership to improve your health and fitness, especially in southern California, where we can go outside to exercise 365 days per year! Back to Function has created an exercise program that can be done around your own neighborhood. Just put on a comfortable pair of walking or cross-training … Continue reading Back to Function Health & Fitness Home Exercise Program
BTF Nutrition & Fitness Plan
The team at Back to Function have created the perfect nutrition and fitness plan for your active lifestyle. Whether your goal is weight loss, a firmer and stronger physique or to improve your overall health and longevity, we have you covered! Home Nutrition & Fitness Plan $179 perfect plan for working people with limited time or a … Continue reading BTF Nutrition & Fitness Plan
Stiffness Hides a Stability Problem and Causes a Mobility Issue
What areas of your body feel stiff/tight? Do you constantly stretch the same muscles but the tightness ultimately returns? For many of our clients, they haven’t realized that they are simply addressing the symptoms of stiffness and not the underlying cause. The truth is that stiffness hides a stability problem and causes a mobility issue. … Continue reading Stiffness Hides a Stability Problem and Causes a Mobility Issue
What is Stopping You From Improving Your Fitness?
It is a new year, and many of us have decided that improving our overall level of fitness is one of our resolutions. Unfortunately, something might be getting in the way of us achieving our goals. According to Examine.com’s Fitness Guide 2019, 78% of Americans don’t meet the national exercise guidelines. Physical Activity Guidelines for … Continue reading What is Stopping You From Improving Your Fitness?
Do You Feel Crooked When You Look in the Mirror?
At Back to Function we have somewhat of an obsession with posture. Whether you’re standing, sitting or walking, your postural habits control the load on your body’s joints. Abnormal or less than ideal posture can overload certain joints of your body, causing pain and breakdown. An unfortunate example we see of this is the right … Continue reading Do You Feel Crooked When You Look in the Mirror?
What is Fitness and How Can We Measure it?
What is Fitness? Biologically speaking, an organism would be considered as having fitness if it is able to survive to reproduce. Typically, humans survive well beyond their reproductive years. For us, fitness has taken on a new definition that is related to the stage of life we are in and our overall level of health. … Continue reading What is Fitness and How Can We Measure it?
Post Surgical Rehabilitation of the Shoulder (Labral Tear) Part 1
The shoulder joint involves 3 bones: scapula (shoulder blade) clavicle (collarbone) humerus (upper arm bone) The head of the humerus rests in a shallow socket of the scapula called the glenoid. Since the head of the humerus is much larger than the glenoid, a soft fibrous tissue called the labrum surrounds the glenoid to help … Continue reading Post Surgical Rehabilitation of the Shoulder (Labral Tear) Part 1
Post Surgical Rehabilitation of the Shoulder (Labral Tear) Part 2
Note: Part 2 of this article is geared more toward a qualified healthcare practitioner. Full return to throwing and contact sports occurs in 80-90% of athletes. Successful return to sport and activity is dependent on following post-surgical precautions and completing a structured post-surgical rehabilitation program. The rehabilitation program we use at Back to Function is a … Continue reading Post Surgical Rehabilitation of the Shoulder (Labral Tear) Part 2
SI Joint Part 3: Treatment of SI Joint Pain
Treatment of SI joint pain (SIJP) includes chiropractic manipulation (good for the SI joint that isn’t moving enough), myofascial release, heat, postural education, SI belts (good short term strategy for the SI joint that is moving too much), electrical stimulation, stretching, therapeutic exercises, SI joint injections including prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma, stem cells and SI … Continue reading SI Joint Part 3: Treatment of SI Joint Pain
SI Joint Part 2: Assessment of SI Joint Instability
If you are unsure of whether or not you have sacroiliac (SI) joint instability (SIJI), please read the previous article entitled Do You Have SI Joint Pain?. As a chiropractor, I start to consider SIJI when I have a patient who gets relief from adjusting, but never “holds” the adjustment. Another consideration for SIJI is a … Continue reading SI Joint Part 2: Assessment of SI Joint Instability