 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. I wanted to share a story about a young woman or rather young mom that has a five month old baby. She was holding her baby in one of those baby carriers, which are amazing inventions, but in this case it ended up causing a whole lot of back pain. The pain started from just below her left shoulder blade then extended up to her neck then down to her lower back all on the left side. It was making breathing difficult. It was making moving difficult. Not to mention, having to carry your baby, having to take care of her other kids, having to do all her housework.This poor mom was just very, very distraught to say the least. She was feeling the pressures of not being able to take care of her newborn. She was feeling the pressure that her other kids needed her attention also. She just wasn't able to move around like she wanted to, not to mention, laundry doesn't wait for anybody.
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 I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Let's talk about back pain. Are you suffering from low back pain when you go from sitting to standing? Are you having to press your hands on your knees when you want to stand up by slowly walking your hands up your thigh. You're not alone. There are many people who suffer from this. Of course this comes with anxiety when this starts. You know that there's something wrong with your back. It hurts to stand up but you've found a way to get around the pain. But the real question is, is this something that you're going to have to do forever? Does it mean if I go to the doctor, they're going to send me to get cortisone shots and MRIs and surgeries? How many days off from work? I mean it just causes a cascade of other problems that you're just not really willing to deal with. And so right now you're at home just suffering because you can't sit for too long. And then when you go to stand up, it really requires a whole lot of effort from your arms to get you to standing.
 Hi, I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. Let's talk about carpal tunnel. Carpal tunnel is so common, especially for moms. And if you've just had a kid it’s also common to get carpal tunnel while you're pregnant, but it’s common just from holding your child that you get carpal tunnel. In my case my daughter, after she was born, just loved to be carried. She didn't really like to be put down for any length of time. And so you just spend a whole lot of time caring and of course, you're kind of curled in this position. You're trying to make sure that they're comfortable and you're doing a whole lot of this right. All day. And after a while, I noticed that, you know, my wrist would be a little bit sore and achy. My elbow was getting sore and because you're not sleeping a whole lot, there's not a lot of thought. You just know that you need to take care of your baby. And then that's what you're doing. But when I started to try to reach for things and I was uncoordinated, I would drop things because I didn't really have as good a grip as I thought I did. And then the numbness came and then after the numbness came, the realization that I am giving myself a carpal tunnel on my left side.
 Hi, I’m Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy. I had somebody stop me the other day and asked me what’s kind of a funny question. But it was very serious for her. She asked me why she walked like a duck and she demonstrated. She walked with her feet turned out. I obviously kind of chuckled because it's a funny way of asking why I walk a certain way. And she was kind of trying to brush it off too. Like, yeah, my kids are kind of messing with me a little bit about how my feet are always turned out. Then she said, I'm secretly a little afraid that they think I look funny or that I look odd when I'm walking. After talking to her for a little bit, there was a little bit more to that.
 I'm Dr. Molly with Your Goals Physical Therapy, are you currently trying to decide whether or not you need to have a cortisone shot or go to physical therapy for a shoulder impingement? I'm assuming if you have a diagnosis like shoulder impingement, you went to your doctor because you're having pain with certain motions. You're probably freaking out because it is very scary when it hurts to get dressed, it hurts to sleep. You can't find a comfortable position walking around your arm because it really doesn’t like just hanging. You can have pain putting away dishes, vacuuming, all sorts of things. And it's all the time, especially if it's your right arm and you're right-handed, you have to use your arm all the time so everything reminds you that your shoulder doesn't feel very well. Most of us, we're able to ignore that pain for a while because… “it'll just go away on its own”.
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