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25 of the problems Dr. Rob sees most, mapped onto the body. Pick an area to see what commonly goes wrong there and how he treats it.
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Tap a spot on the body, or pick an area from the list, to see what commonly goes wrong there and how Dr. Rob treats it. Use the Front and Back tabs to get to the rest of you.
Head & Jaw
Head and jaw pain often starts in the neck and the muscles that anchor to the base of the skull, which is why it can be so hard to chase from the front.
Tension & Cervicogenic Headaches
Headaches that build from the neck and the base of the skull.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob checks whether the headache is being driven by the joints and soft tissue of the upper neck, then treats the muscles at the base of the skull, the upper cervical segments, and the shoulder muscles feeding into them. Headaches have many causes, so if what he finds does not explain your symptoms he will say so and point you to the right person.
TMJ & Jaw Pain
Clicking, aching, or limited opening in the jaw.
How Dr. Rob helps: Treatment works the chewing muscles and the soft tissue around the joint, along with the upper neck, which shares nerve supply with the jaw. Where a bite appliance is part of the picture, your doctor will coordinate with your dentist rather than work around them.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Neck
The neck carries the weight of your head all day, and it is the first place a desk, a phone, or a collision shows up.
Neck Pain & Stiffness
Stiffness, aches, and limited motion in the neck.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob locates the restricted spinal segments and uses gentle, specific adjustments plus soft-tissue work (ART and Graston) to restore motion and ease pressure on the nerves.
Whiplash & Neck Strain
Neck pain after a collision, a fall, or a hard hit.
How Dr. Rob helps: After ruling out anything that needs imaging or a referral, treatment goes in stages: settle the irritated tissue first, restore motion segment by segment, then rebuild the deep neck muscles that hold your head up. Rushing the middle stage is what turns a short problem into a long one.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Shoulder
The shoulder trades stability for range of motion, so it depends on soft tissue rather than bone to stay where it should.
Shoulder Pain & Impingement
Pain or limited motion reaching overhead.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob assesses the whole shoulder complex and uses ART and joint work to restore smooth, pain-free movement.
Rotator Cuff Injury
Weakness or pain lifting the arm out to the side.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob tests which of the four cuff muscles is involved, treats the tendon and the tissue around it with ART and Graston, then works on the shoulder-blade mechanics underneath, since a blade that does not move leaves the cuff doing work it was never built for. A full tear is a surgical question, and he will tell you plainly if that is what the exam suggests.
Frozen Shoulder
A shoulder that has gradually stiffened and lost motion.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob works the joint capsule and the soft tissue around it, taking the range the shoulder will give at each stage rather than forcing it, and sends you home with a plan so the motion you gain in the office is motion you keep. Frozen shoulder often responds best to a combined approach, so he will coordinate with your physician where that helps.
Arthritis & Bursitis
Joint inflammation, stiffness, and swelling.
How Dr. Rob helps: Gentle joint mobilization and soft-tissue release around the irritated joint or bursa to improve comfort and range of motion, paired with activity guidance so it settles and stays settled.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Mid Back & Ribs
The area between the shoulder blades takes the load of everything your arms do, and the ribs attaching to the spine can lock up on their own.
Mid Back, Rib & Shoulder Blade Pain
A sharp catch between the shoulder blades, often worse with a deep breath.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob checks the mid-back segments and the rib joints attaching to them, adjusts the ones that have stopped moving, and releases the muscles along the shoulder blade that lock down to protect them. Breathing mechanics get a look too, because a rib that does not move is a rib that keeps getting irritated.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Elbow
Elbow pain is usually a tendon problem at the point where the forearm muscles attach, and it is often driven from further up the arm.
Tennis & Golfer's Elbow
Pain on the inside or outside of the elbow.
How Dr. Rob helps: Soft-tissue treatment of the forearm flexors and extensors where they attach at the elbow, plus release of the shoulder and neck when they are feeding the overload down the arm.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Low Back
Low back pain is the most common reason people come in, and it is rarely just one tissue. The joints, the discs, and the muscles all get a say.
Low Back Pain
Aching, stiffness, or a catch in the lower back.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob examines the low back, the hips, and the way you actually move before treating anything, then combines specific adjustments with ART and Graston on the muscles and fascia holding the segment down. You will leave with something to do at home, because the low back responds to what happens between visits.
Herniated & Bulging Discs
Back pain with numbness, tingling, or weakness down a leg.
How Dr. Rob helps: Care starts with a careful neurological exam to see what the nerve is actually doing. Treatment stays deliberately gentle around an irritated disc, working the positions and movements that take pressure off it and the soft tissue that has tightened in response. Dr. Rob will send you for imaging or to a specialist when your exam calls for it.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Wrist & Hand
Nerves and tendons run through tight tunnels at the wrist. When the tissue around them stops sliding, the hand is where you feel it.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Tingling, numbness, or weakness in the hand.
How Dr. Rob helps: ART targets the points along the forearm and wrist where the median nerve can get compressed, with the aim of restoring normal glide and easing the tingling and weakness.
Wrist Tendinitis & De Quervain's
Pain along the thumb side of the wrist or the back of the hand.
How Dr. Rob helps: ART and Graston work the tendon sheaths where they bind, along with the forearm muscles pulling on them. New parents and people who spend the day on a keyboard or a phone make up most of these, so how you are actually using the hand is part of the exam.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Hip & Groin
The hip is a deep ball-and-socket joint wrapped in some of the strongest muscles in the body, so hip trouble is often felt in the groin or the thigh.
Hip Pain
Aching or pinching in the hip and groin.
How Dr. Rob helps: Treatment targets the muscles and joint around the hip to improve mobility and reduce pain with walking and sitting.
Groin & Hip Flexor Strain
A pull in the groin or the front of the hip, often from a sprint or a cut.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob treats the adductors and hip flexors with ART, then works up the chain to the pelvis and low back, which is usually where the extra load came from. Getting back to sport is staged rather than all at once.
IT Band Syndrome
Pain on the outside of the knee that arrives at a predictable distance.
How Dr. Rob helps: The IT band itself has almost no give, so treatment goes after what pulls on it: the tensor fasciae latae and the glutes up at the hip. ART and Graston on those, paired with hip strength work, is the approach.
Arthritis & Bursitis
Joint inflammation, stiffness, and swelling.
How Dr. Rob helps: Gentle joint mobilization and soft-tissue release around the irritated joint or bursa to improve comfort and range of motion, paired with activity guidance so it settles and stays settled.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Glutes & Sciatica
The sciatic nerve runs from the low back straight through the glutes. Pain down the back of the leg usually traces to one of those two places.
Sciatica
Pain, burning, or tingling running down the back of the leg.
How Dr. Rob helps: Sciatica is a symptom, not a diagnosis, so the first job is finding where the nerve is actually being irritated. Dr. Rob is certified in the ART long tract nerve entrapment protocols, which treat the nerve along its whole path rather than only where it hurts.
Piriformis Syndrome
Deep buttock pain that gets worse the longer you sit.
How Dr. Rob helps: ART releases the piriformis and the deep hip rotators sitting right on the sciatic nerve, and treatment includes the hip and low-back mechanics that had that muscle working overtime in the first place.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Hamstring
Hamstrings get injured at speed and then stay stiff long after, because scar tissue heals shorter and less elastic than the muscle it replaced.
Hamstring Strain
A pull, or a tightness at the back of the thigh that never fully leaves.
How Dr. Rob helps: A fresh strain gets settled first. An old one is usually a scar-tissue problem, and that is what ART and Graston are for: breaking down adhesions that healed shorter and stiffer than the muscle around them, then loading the tissue again so it can take speed.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Knee
The knee is stuck between the hip and the foot, and it usually takes the blame for what those two are doing wrong.
Knee Pain
Pain around or behind the kneecap, often from overuse.
How Dr. Rob helps: Treatment combines ART on the quad, hamstring, and IT-band attachments with hands-on joint work, plus specific loading exercises so the knee can take the work you ask of it.
IT Band Syndrome
Pain on the outside of the knee that arrives at a predictable distance.
How Dr. Rob helps: The IT band itself has almost no give, so treatment goes after what pulls on it: the tensor fasciae latae and the glutes up at the hip. ART and Graston on those, paired with hip strength work, is the approach.
Arthritis & Bursitis
Joint inflammation, stiffness, and swelling.
How Dr. Rob helps: Gentle joint mobilization and soft-tissue release around the irritated joint or bursa to improve comfort and range of motion, paired with activity guidance so it settles and stays settled.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Calf & Achilles
The calf and the Achilles absorb every step you take. They are slow to heal because the tendon has a poor blood supply to begin with.
Calf Strain
A sudden grab in the calf, or a knot that will not let go.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob treats the specific head of the calf involved rather than the whole muscle, using ART and Graston, and checks the ankle and foot mechanics above and below it. Calf tissue remodels slowly, so the home plan carries real weight here.
Achilles Tendinitis
Painful, stiff tendon at the back of the ankle.
How Dr. Rob helps: ART and Graston instrument-assisted work break down the scar tissue in and around the tendon, followed by a graded loading plan to rebuild its tolerance.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.
Shin, Ankle & Foot
Your foot is the only part of you touching the ground, so what happens there travels all the way up the chain.
Plantar Fasciitis
Sharp heel pain, worst with the first steps of the day.
How Dr. Rob helps: Dr. Rob releases the calf, the deep foot muscles, and the plantar fascia itself with Active Release Techniques and Graston instrument-assisted work, then addresses the ankle and hip mechanics that overload the heel in the first place.
Shin Splints
Aching along the front or inside edge of the shin when you run.
How Dr. Rob helps: Treatment releases the muscles along the shin where they attach to the bone and addresses the foot and hip mechanics loading them. Training volume and footwear get a look as well, because that is often where the answer actually is.
Not sure this is it? Dr. Rob will examine you and tell you what he finds.