Conditions

Headaches & Migraines

Headaches & Migraines in Boulder tend to sneak up during the parts of the day that matter most: the last hour of deadline work, the drive up to the trailhead, dinner with your kids. A bad headache does not just hurt. It pulls you out of work, away from your family, and out of your own day. Wh…

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Herniated & Bulging Disc

A herniated or bulging disc in Boulder, CO has a way of shrinking your day down to whatever your spine will allow. Bending down to lace up your boots before a hike into the Flatirons, sitting through a full day at a desk, or simply rolling over in bed at two in the morning can set off pain that s…

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Hip Pain

Hip pain in Boulder, CO shows up in the moments you least expect it: a deep pinch in the groin coming out of a squat at the gym, an ache on the outside of the hip that flares the second you lie down, a catch halfway through a trail run up Chautauqua. It rarely announces itself all at once. It jus…

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IT Band Syndrome / Runner’s Knee

IT Band Syndrome / Runner's Knee in Boulder, CO is close to a rite of passage. Between the Boulder Creek Path, the Mesa Trail, the Sanitas scramble, and every long ride out toward Lyons, this town asks a lot of your legs, and sooner or later a lot of runners and cyclists feel the same sharp, nagg…

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Knee Pain

Knee pain in Boulder, CO has a way of shrinking your world. Stairs, hikes, a run on the Boulder Creek Path, even getting up off the floor with your kids starts to feel like a negotiation. If you have been told the only options left are cortisone, injections, or surgery, there is usually a step wo…

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Low Back Pain

Low Back Pain in Boulder, CO has a way of touching everything. Sitting through a workday, loading the car, a hike toward the Flatirons, even standing at the sink starts to feel like something you have to brace for. Maybe it started after a weekend trail run, maybe after a long day hunched over a…

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Neck Pain

Neck pain in Boulder tends to sneak up on people. It's rarely one dramatic moment — more often it's checking a blind spot on the Diagonal, glancing down at your phone in line at a coffee shop on Pearl Street, or turning your head to talk to someone in the passenger seat and feeling that unmistaka…

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Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar Fasciitis in Boulder, CO usually announces itself the same way for everyone: you swing your legs out of bed, take those first few steps, and your heel lights up like you stepped on a rock. It eases some once you're moving, only to come back with a vengeance after a long run on the Boulder…

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Postpartum Recovery

Postpartum recovery in Boulder often gets treated like a six-week checkbox, and then everyone moves on. Your body doesn't work that way. The fourth trimester, and honestly the whole first year, is when you're relearning how to hold yourself, unwinding nine months of change, and adapting to the br…

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Pregnancy Back Pain

So many people are told that Pregnancy Back Pain in Boulder, CO is just something to grit your teeth through until delivery. It's incredibly common, but common isn't the same as inevitable. Most pregnancy back pain has predictable, understandable causes, and those causes respond well to gentle, p…

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Sciatica

Sciatica in Boulder has a way of showing up right when you can least afford it — mid-commute on Broadway, three miles into a trail run up Mount Sanitas, or halfway through a long meeting downtown. That shooting, burning pain runs from your low back down through the buttock and leg, and suddenly s…

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Shoulder Pain & Rotator Cuff

Shoulder Pain & Rotator Cuff problems have a way of showing up in the small moments of a day in Boulder, CO: reaching into the back seat, zipping up a jacket before a hike on the Boulder Creek Path, or pulling a paddleboard off the roof rack. Suddenly a joint you never thought about is runnin…

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Text Neck / Tech Neck

Text neck / tech neck in Boulder, CO shows up in a lot of the same places you'd expect: hunched over a laptop at a coffee shop on Pearl Street, scrolling on the bus up to CU Boulder, or answering one more email before closing the computer for the night. We spend hours a day looking down at someth…

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TMJ

TMJ pain in Boulder usually starts small: a click when you yawn, an ache under the ear after a stressful week at work, a jaw that feels tight the moment you wake up. Because the jaw joint sits at a busy crossroads of muscle, nerve, and bone, jaw pain rarely stays in one place. It can spread into…

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Whiplash

Whiplash in Boulder, CO usually starts the same way: a fender-bender at a light on Foothills Parkway, a hard fall on the mogul run at Eldora, a collision at midfield during a weekend league game — and then nothing much for a day or so. You walk away, drive home, maybe ice your neck out of habit.…

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