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| Douglas Wisoff , P.T. |
Douglas Wisoff has been a licensed and practicing Physical Therapist
for 20 years in the Boulder / Denver area, and in that time he has treated
thousands of people for every conceivable diagnosis related to Physical Therapy.
Douglas offers a unique blend of mainstream and holistic techniques for
physical therapy and sports injury rehabilitation.
His areas of experience include:
- Neuro-trauma
- Orthopedics
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Auto Injury Rehabilitation
- Home Health Therapy
- Postural Correction
- Sports Medicine
- Repetitive use injury as it occurs in sport
and occupation.
Free initial consultations and assessments.
E-mail
Douglas or call 303-499-2062
, for an appointment.
Although he now specializes in body use and movement for all activities
with a specific interest in running, these years of experience gained
in working with all kinds of injury and musculo-skeletal conditions have
made a large contribution to Douglas's understanding of the body, its
potential to heal, and how to stimulate the healing process.
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This is a chart of a few garden variety overuse injuries that are generated
by repetitive use of the body as a result of sports training, competition.
While certain traumatic injuries, such as a sprained ankle, also respond
well to improved technique, the focus of this chart are injuries generated
by poor technique or form.
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Common
Overuse Injury |
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Form
and Body Use
Problems |
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Posture
and Structure
Problems |
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Plantar fasciitis
Generic foot pain |
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Holding tension in the feet.
Gripping with the toes.
Excessive ground impact.
Excessive tension in the calves and hamstrings.
Lack of full ground contact with the feet. |
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Anterior pelvic tilt, sway back posture. |
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| Shins splints and lower
leg stress fractures |
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Excessive tension in the calves. Rigidity in
the ankles.
Poor technique in downhill running.
Tentative movement with resultant brittleness
in the legs.
Overuse of the calves for force production.
Lack of full ground contact with the feet. |
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Muscle imbalance in the hips resulting in improper
stabilizing at the ankle.
Increased forces of pronation at foot strike as a result of internal
rotation of the femur at the hip. |
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IT Band Syndrome |
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Failure to access the psoas in hip flexion, resulting
in overuse of the accessory lateral hip flexors for force production
– creating stress and contraction tightness in the TFL muscle. |
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Internal rotation of the femur.
Bowing of the legs.
Anterior pelvic tilt when running with resultant
overuse of the lateral accessory hip flexors. |
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| Common knee pain |
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Excessive pounding resulting from ground reaction
overuse or excessive vertical displacement in the form.
Non resilient muscle use, resulting in impacts
going into the joints, over striding with concurrent breaking action
at the knee with foot strike.
Excessive forward bend at the waist, and bearing
downward.
Quadricep overuse. |
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Anterior pelvic tilt.
Various muscle imbalance in the hips, pelvis
and thighs that cause segmental nonalignment. |
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| Achilles tendon problems |
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Overuse of the calf muscles to produce the forces
of propulsion, i.e. overuse of bounce and toe off.
Excessive toe striking having a detrimental effect
over time. |
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I have also had success applying the Radiant
Running approach to the following problems: tennis elbow, golfer elbow,
carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff, Condromalacia Patella, meniscus
injuries, sciatica, tarsal tunnel syndrome, Morton's Neuroma, bone spur,
ankle sprains, plica syndrome, hip pain, groin pain, thoracic outlet syndrome,
metatarsalgia, repetitive use injury, and exercise induced asthma, as
well as musculoskeletal pain, soft tissue pain, knee pain, hip pain, ankle
pain, and shoulder pain.
Douglas,
I just wanted to thank you for assisting me in
such a life changing way with my recovery. I never thought that a car
accident would help me to embark upon such a positive path regarding my
overall health, and I want to thank you for working with me on such an
integral, life changing level.
The exercises we have worked with to alleviate pain,
to develop strength and to enhance awareness of position and posture,
movement, diet and emotional/physical connections has given me a solid
sense of groundedness and control about my body which has made a tremendous
difference in my day-to-day life.
I feel that my life habits have truly changed from
the ground up!
Rhonda Miller
Advertising Manager, Silver and Gold Records
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