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Eliminate Back Pain and Stay Active By Strengthening This One Muscle Group

Eliminate Back Pain and Stay Active By Strengthening This One Muscle Group

What’s the strongest and arguably the most important muscle in the body? Your Glute Max. Laying at the transition between our upper and lower extremity the glute max is vitally important in stabilizing our pelvis and spine, developing power in more athletic movements, and controlling the movement of our lower extremity in walking, running, lunging, ANYTHING.

Learn how weakness in our glute muscle contribute to back pain and what you can do to strengthen this important muscle group in this weeks muscle group.

Back Pain, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJanuary 11, 2019Evolve Performance HealthcarePortland Chiropractor

Protecting Your Spine for Less Back Pain in the Gym and At Work - The #1 Exercise to Master

Protecting Your Spine for Less Back Pain in the Gym and At Work - The #1 Exercise to Master

Learning to properly brace our spine is the #1 important concept to master before beginning any fitness routine and a great way to protect our spine throughout our day. In this week’s article we cover proper bracing sequence.

Back Pain, Low Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 11, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

How to Strengthen Your Core When Dealing with a Shoulder Injury

How to Strengthen Your Core When Dealing with a Shoulder Injury

One of the most effective and safest ways to treat back pain and strengthen our core is through a variety of plank progressions. But often times we run into trouble if we have concurrent shoulder pain that is aggravated in the low and high plank position.

In this article we cover three ways we can strengthen the core when we’re also dealing with a shoulder injury.

Back Pain, FitnessDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 3, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareCore Exercise, Core StrengthComment

Avoid These Three Squatting Mistakes to Exercise Without Back Pain

Avoid These Three Squatting Mistakes to Exercise Without Back Pain

The squat can be one of the most beneficial exercises for improving mobility and strength for less pain and injury. Avoid these three common squatting mistakes to avoid pain and stay our of the doctors office.

Back Pain, Movement, Pain ReliefDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPNovember 6, 2018Evolve Performance Healthcaresquat

Easy Changes To Your Work Space To Ease Neck and Shoulder Pain

Easy Changes To Your Work Space To Ease Neck and Shoulder Pain

For many of our clients, hours in front of a computer are unavoidable and part of their job. Try these easy changes to your work station so you experience less pain and comfortably perform your work.

Back Pain, Ergonomics, Neck PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 17, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareNeck Pain, Shoulder Pain, Desk ExercisesComment

Three Most Common Mistakes People Make With Back Pain Recovery

Three Most Common Mistakes People Make With Back Pain Recovery

Avoid these three common mistakes that people (and doctors) make when it comes to recovering from low back pain.

Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 10, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareLow Back Pain, Pain ReliefComment

Three Easy Tips to Protect Your Spine And Exercise Without Back Pain

Three Easy Tips to Protect Your Spine And Exercise Without Back Pain

When it comes to back pain - exercise should be part of the solution - not the problem. Learn three easy things you can do to protect your spine and avoid back pain in the gym.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, MovementDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 3, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareFitness, squat

Is Standing or Sitting At Work Better For Your Back?

Is Standing or Sitting At Work Better For Your Back?

Long hours of sitting have shown to be detrimental to our health - so the obvious answer is to stand more, right? In this article we answer whether sitting or standing is better for your back and provide ways you can incorporate more movement into your work routine.

Back Pain, Neck Pain, ErgonomicsDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPSeptember 25, 2018Evolve Performance Healthcaremovement, postureComment

Five Ways to Ease Back Pain - While Keeping Up With Your Exercise Routine

Five Ways to Ease Back Pain - While Keeping Up With Your Exercise Routine

When it comes to back pain, exercise routine should be part of the solution - not the problem. Learn five things you can incorporate TODAY to be sure you can keep up with your exercise routine - even if you’re dealing with low back pain.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPSeptember 18, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareExercise, GymComment

Five Ways to Stay Active in the Gym - Even If You're Dealing with Pain

Five Ways to Stay Active in the Gym - Even If You're Dealing with Pain

Don’t let pain and injury keep you from reaching your fitness goals. Use these five tips to stay in the gym and work around pain.

Fitness, Chiropractic, Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPAugust 29, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareGym, PortlandComment

Treating Back Pain After a Car Accident in Portland

Treating Back Pain After a Car Accident in Portland

Learn the steps to take to treat back pain following a car accident in Portland Oregon with no out of pocket costs.

Auto Accident, Chiropractic, Back PainDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPAugust 22, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareWhiplash, Car Accident, Back PainComment

Improving Your Squat To Treat Low Back Pain

Improving Your Squat To Treat Low Back Pain

The squat, when performed correctly, is one of the most useful tools in strengthening important spinal stabilizers. However, when performed incorrectly can actually contribute to low back pain and injury.Avoid these common mistakes when performing the squat to protect your low back and avoid injury.

Low Back Pain, Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland Chiropractor, PortlandDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPFebruary 17, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Improve Hip Mobility in Five Minutes a Day

Improve Hip Mobility in Five Minutes a Day

Maintaining hip mobility and motor control is important in preventing hip and low back pain/injury. Improve your hip mobility with this 5 minute routine.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Portland, Portland Chiropractor, Pain ReliefDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPFebruary 2, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Is Your Low Back Pain a Low Back Problem?

Is Your Low Back Pain a Low Back Problem?

Unless your low back pain was caused by a traumatic incident, it usually isn’t a low back issue. More likely, you have a movement problem that is leading to back pain.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJanuary 26, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Treating Low Back Pain With The Hip Hinge: Easy Hinge Progressions

Treating Low Back Pain With The Hip Hinge: Easy Hinge Progressions

By keeping movement in our hips and center of gravity over our weight bearing joints, mastering the hip hinge is key to protecting our low back in fitness and in life.. Learn easy progressions to be sure your movement is safe and effective.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJanuary 20, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

How To Protect And Treat Your Low Back With Intra-abdominal Pressure

How To Protect And Treat Your Low Back With Intra-abdominal Pressure

Learn how Intra-Abdominal Pressure creates improves low back stability to protect the spine and reduce the risk of suffering low back injury

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPJanuary 8, 2018Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Back Pain With Kettlebells? Top Five Mistakes Performing Kettlebell Swings

Back Pain With Kettlebells? Top Five Mistakes Performing Kettlebell Swings

Avoid these common mistakes when performing the kettlebell swing to protect your body and build functional strength to remain injury free.

Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPDecember 21, 2017Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Treating Low Back Pain: Core Strength vs. Core Coordination

Treating Low Back Pain: Core Strength vs. Core Coordination

Learn the importance of training core coordination over core strength in the prevention of low back pain and simple steps you can take to improve it.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPNovember 9, 2017Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

Common Movement Mistakes That Lead To Increased Low Back Pain

Common Movement Mistakes That Lead To Increased Low Back Pain

Improper movement always leads to pain and injury. Learn common movement mistakes and how to fix them.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland, Portland ChiropractorDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 23, 2017Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

The Best Ways To Treat Low Back Pain And Get Back To Doing What You Love

The Best Ways To Treat Low Back Pain And Get Back To Doing What You Love

Improving flawed movement patterns is the key to the long term recovery of low back pain. Lets look at a few of the reasons why.

Back Pain, Low Back Pain, Pain Relief, Portland Chiropractor, PortlandDr. Carl Baird DC, MS, CCSPOctober 16, 2017Evolve Performance HealthcareComment

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