Here is a pattern worth noticing.
Ask golfers when their back, elbow or wrist started bothering them, and a surprising number will trace it not to a round, but to a practice session. Often a long one. Often on mats. Often after a lesson, when they were working hard on something new.
The driving range is where a lot of golf injuries are manufactured, and it is almost never treated as a risk. Here is why, and what to do differently.
For a lot of golfers facing a hip, knee or shoulder replacement, one question matters more than all the others, and it frequently goes unasked in the surgical consultation. Will I get back on the course? People hesitate to ask because it can feel trivial next to the operation itself. It is not trivial. For many people golf is their exercise, their social life and a significant part of how they spend their week. The good news is that this has been studied, and the numbers are considerably more encouraging than most patients expect.
Pickleball looks like a lower body sport.
The movement, the footwork, the lunges, the scrambling. That is where players assume the wear and tear accumulates.
The emergency department data says otherwise.
A study examining pickleball related upper extremity injuries presenting to US emergency departments between 2015 and 2024 found that these injuries have risen sharply over the past decade, with wrist fractures comprising the majority of cases.
Ask most pickleball players what they worry about and you will hear about shoulders, knees and Achilles tendons.
Reasonable concerns. They are also not what sends people to the emergency room. A ten year analysis of emergency department data found that falls were the most common injury mechanism overall, accounting for 65.5 percent of pickleball injuries. And a separate study examining pickleball fractures found that falls were the mechanism behind 92 percent of them.
Most people choose shoes by how they feel.
You put them on, walk a few steps, and your feet report back. Too tight here. Rubbing there. That one feels right.
When sensation is reduced, that entire system is unavailable to you.
Which means the usual approach to buying shoes, trying them on and going with what feels comfortable, is not just unreliable. It can actively mislead you, because a shoe that causes no discomfort may still be causing damage.
Here is how to do it properly instead.
Search for neuropathy supplements and you will be offered a great deal within about ninety seconds.
Nerve support formulas. B complex blends. Proprietary combinations with confident packaging and testimonials. A lot of money changes hands in this category, and most of it goes toward products with very little behind them.
But there is one exception in this space with genuinely substantial randomized trial data, and most people have never heard of it.
Sometimes that’s accurate. Often it’s premature — because a meaningful proportion of foot neuropathy has an identifiable cause, and several of those causes are correctable. Nerves can recover when whatever is damaging them stops. The catch is timing. Recovery is far more likely when the cause is found early, and far less likely after years of ongoing damage. Which makes “let’s just monitor it” an expensive strategy. This article covers the causes worth actively chasing, how each is identified, and what correcting it realistically achieves.
An important framing note first: physical therapists don’t order or interpret bloodwork. What follows is intended to help you have a more productive conversation with your physician, not to substitute for one.
At some point in a shoulder problem, you’ll be offered a choice — or worse, you’ll be given one option and left wondering about the others.
The difficulty is that each option gets advocated by people who deliver it, the timelines and trade-offs are rarely laid out side by side, and the decision arrives when you’re tired of hurting and inclined to take whatever promises the fastest relief.
This isn’t an argument for any one path. It’s a framework for making the choice deliberately: what each option actually does, what it costs you, and the questions worth asking before you commit.
Tingling, numbness, and burning in the feet feel like a foot problem. The sensation is there, so the cause must be there too. Frequently it isn’t. Nerves supplying your feet begin in your lower spine and travel the length of your leg before they arrive. They pass through gaps between bones, under ligaments, around joints, and through muscular tunnels. Irritation anywhere along that route can produce symptoms at the far end — and the location of the symptom tells you far less than people assume. This article works up the body, from the toes to the spine, describing what can go wrong at each level and what distinguishes it. If you’ve been treating your feet without progress, the answer may be somewhere further up the line.
You managed the day fine. A few twinges reaching for things, nothing dramatic. You went to bed at a reasonable hour. And now it’s 3 a.m., you’re lying there with a deep ache down the outside of your arm, you’ve tried both sides and your back, and you’re doing the calculation about whether it’s worth getting up. Night pain is one of the defining features of shoulder problems. It’s also one of the most disruptive, and one of the most diagnostically informative — because which shoulder problems wake people, and how they wake them, differs in useful ways. Here’s why it happens, what your particular pattern suggests, and what actually helps.
