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Why Does My Shoulder Click and Hurt When Pressing Overhead?
A clicking shoulder can sound alarming, especially when it shows up during pressing, pull-ups, swimming, or reaching overhead. Add pain to the mix and it is easy to assume something is damaged. Most of the time, the click itself is not the main issue. The more useful question is what happens around the click. Is it painless and predictable? Or does it come with pain, weakness, locking, or a feeling that the shoulder might give way? The shoulder is a highly mobile joint, but i
Filip Lhotka
Jul 238 min read
Why Your Neck Always Feels Tight and Stretching Alone Can't Solve It
If you spend much of your day at a desk, in a car, or looking down at your phone, you might know this feeling well: by mid-afternoon, your neck feels tight. You stretch it and get a few minutes of relief, but by evening the tightness returns. Sometimes it even turns into a dull headache at the base of your skull. If this has been going on for months, you might have started to think it’s just part of having a desk job. Here’s something most people don’t realize: your neck prob
Filip Lhotka
Jul 154 min read
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