Parker Muscle & Sports Clinic
If you’ve ever had patellar tendonitis, you know how painful it can be. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, you might experience pain and tenderness around your knee, especially when you jump, run or walk. You also might feel that discomfort and pain when you bend and straighten your leg.
Patellar tendonitis is a very difficult condition to treat. It sidelines numerous youth, collegiate and professional athletes as well as seasoned competitors.
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It’s a tale as old as time: you have joint pain that just won’t go away, even though you’re doing everything right on paper. You’ve attempted exercising more, rehab and alternative therapies — even the ol’ “just give it time” method — but keep reaching a recovery plateau.
The result is often discomfort, weakness and altered mechanics when practicing your favorite sport — a slight adjustment in your jump shot or running stride. And not only can this pain affect your athletic performance, it can also take a toll on your everyday life if it gets bad enough.
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Dr. James Parker, a Utah native and former Olympic athlete turned chiropractic physician and consultant for USA Track and Field, says he believes the true cause for most chronic muscle and skeletal pain, like back pain, is muscle inhibition, also known as MI.
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Low back pain is a big issue all around the world. In fact, it has spawned a $1 billion industry. At some point in your life, you are likely to experience lower back pain.
Where does it come from? What role do your muscles have in resolving the pain? Watch this video to get some answers. Then come see us and take care of the issue!
The love of my life, Hope, is taking off shortly to represent the United States in the Women’s Rugby World Cup for her third time. This is the biggest tournament in the world for rugby and only happens every four years. The challenges and excitement that have come to us through the last few years as our lives have completely changed have been incredible to look back on.
We met back in 2019. Instantly I was head over heels for her and knew she was the woman I would marry. One year later we said our vows together during the midst of the Covid-19 shutdown. Since then, we have enjoyed hardships and joy together. She has been training constantly for the past five years preparing for this World Cup, which got delayed one year (again because of the Covid-19 shutdown). Now the World Cup is here, and she is heading down to New Zealand to compete against the best in the world.
Hope is a spectacular athlete and renowned throughout the world in Women’s rugby. She has played for the USA Olympic 7’s team for three years, won five national championships in college at Penn State, two more national championships with women’s teams, and in her first year of playing professionally in England, helped her team take second place in only their second year in the league.
What makes Hope even more brilliant, is the woman she is behind the scenes. She cares deeply for each and every one of her teammates. She is an amazing wife and coach. She is genuine to each and every person she meets and will take the time to care for those around her who she sees need it.
One of my favorite stories is about the day we met. We hadn’t met quite yet, and I was watching her play 7’s rugby. She was crushing it! No one stood a chance against her. Well, about 10 meters away from where I was, she annihilated a girl out of bounds. It was one of those hits that everyone goes “ooooo.” The game continues playing and Hope jumps to her feet, helps up the girl she had just tackled and sent into a different dimension, stares her in the eye with so much care and love, and asks, “Are you ok?”. Hope stays with her for 30 seconds or so and when she knows the girl is fine, she joins the game again. At that moment, I got to see who this woman is: a world-class athlete and a genuine, caring, authentic woman, who plays and lives for something more than herself.
It was about three days later I saw I was officially head over heels for her, and completely lost in being with this amazing woman. Without her, I would not be the man I am today, the doctor I am today, or the friend I am today. She has transformed me in so many amazing ways, and I have to say “thank you” every day because of all I know she has done for me.
So, as she heads away to represent her country, I want to share a bit of the amazing Hope Rogers that I have gotten to know and grow with. Join me in cheering and watching her with the online streaming that will be provided.
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Let’s go, Beautiful!
Your ankle and foot have 24 bones, over 30 joints, and over 100 muscles and ligaments.
When something goes wrong it goes wrong badly. Old injury can overload and break, tear or stretch any of these structures causing acute and even chronic symptoms that manifest day after day, year after year–
Floppy and/or weak ankles, compartment syndromes, plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia, decreased jumping ability due to old calf strains, just a general sense of “my feet and ankles feel weak.” But you have been there and done everything you are supposed to do and it isn’t working!
Are you tired of “traditional” care?
Ice, rest, anti-inflammatory drugs, rehabilitation, e-stim, massage, needling, etc…
Maybe that’s worked for you, but if it hasn’t…
Don’t do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Your “wheels” aren’t right and it’s affecting your ability to do what you love. Do something different and get hard-hitting, fast, long-lasting results at Parker Muscle Clinic. Restore your God-given abilities of strength, stamina, and stability.
If your tissue integrity is good and you have been down the road of traditional care for your ankle and foot and it hasn’t changed the way you would expect, WE are the place for you! You are meant to be whole. You are designed to be whole. The foot and ankle are your foundation for the whole body and proper function. We have a system that is diagnostic, therapeutic, fast, safe, and effective. We expect miracles with our patients.
Our practitioners are the best trained and experienced. If you search our Google reviews, you will find that we are some of the most personal and caring humans out there. We are dedicated to getting you better and Faster. We evaluate each and every muscle and joint for function, immobility, and hyper-mobility. We utilize treatments and methods proven in clinical practice.
We have used these methods in Olympic Games medical care, Pro Rodeo, Pro Soccer, Pro Rugby, and numerous Division I sports programs for both women and men. And we have demonstrated faster healing times, decreased incidence of injury, and increased performance levels in individual athletes.
Our passion is born from personal suffering from our own athletic injuries. Traditional care didn’t offer us much. We have established a system designed for the restoration of muscle and joint function that is hard-hitting and long-lasting, fast, safe, and effective.
Don’t give up on yourself! There is a solution, and we can be the place that gets you back on track. You will walk out feeling the difference on your first visit and, if necessary, subsequent visits are expected to produce miraculous effects.
Parker Muscle & Sports Clinic – Knee Joints Are Problematic
A recent article in the Lancet Journal stated that 86.7 million people suffered from knee osteoarthritis in 2020…That’s a lot of people!
Knee osteoarthritis is an advanced condition of the knee, but knees don’t start out that way!
The knee can be a reflection of problems from multiple areas of the lower body and can be debilitating, even causing retirement from sports or activities you love.
Catching knee pain early is imperative if you want to avoid surgery and stay active your whole life.
We are one of the best places to have your knees evaluated and treated effectively, safely, and with long-lasting results.
Don’t let knee pain keep you from living your dream!
