Uplift LMT Wellness PLLC

Uplift LMT Wellness PLLC We help people get out of chronic pain using Massage Therapy, movement coaching, Neurokinetic Therapy, and strength training. Stop chasing your pain.

Stop guessing and start progressing here at Uplift.

06/17/2026

Scars can cause both inhibition and facilitation of muscles around it (and away from it)

This is why you should never overlook how much a scar can be contributing to your pain or dysfunction. usually scars start off as a local issue that graduate to global and overtime. Depending on the injury in the scar it definitely can be a global one at the start, but that's a case-by-case basis.

This is why having a good assessment process around scars is huge. You can really make great impact on someone's pain and discomfort by addressing them properly.

Scars are so important I decided to dedicate a whole podcast to them, so if you have a scar and you want to learn more about how it may be affecting you definitely give it a listen. This video is a clip from that same podcast, so if you enjoyed this you'll definitely enjoy listening to the whole thing.

Click the link in our bio to listen/watch to the whole podcast on your favorite streaming service.

Do you have a scar that's been tormenting you? Comment below and let us know! We'd love to hear about it

06/17/2026

That C-section from 10 years ago. The ACL surgery from college. The appendectomy you never think about.

They're healed. But are they actually resolved? 👀

Most people never connect their old scars to their current pain. But scar tissue creates permanent changes to your fascia, nervous system, muscles, and movement patterns that can silently drive pain for YEARS after the original injury or surgery.

And here's the part that blows people's minds: your scar doesn't have to hurt to be causing your pain somewhere else. 🤯

We just dropped a full blog and podcast episode breaking down exactly what's happening inside your scar tissue, why your rehab might keep plateauing, and what you can actually do about it starting today.

Link in bio to read, watch, listen, and find out if your scar has been running your pain all along. 👆

If this made you stop and think about a scar you haven't thought about in years... that's probably worth paying attention to.

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06/15/2026

The sagittal plane is not the only plane involved in sagittal plane movements.

The other planes are dynamically contracting to stabilize and centrate your joint while you're focused on producing force in the primary plane at hand.

So much of our training gets shoehorned into being hyper sport specific, which is important (SAID principle is long), BUT that doesn't mean you need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Too much of anything usually ends up being bad. Tissues get overloaded. You start to form compensatory movements. You start to lose access to other ranges of motion because you literally don't use them. Structures become less dynamic and lose capacity to do other movements in different planes.

So that day that you have a heavy load or get fatigued, you don't have an bumpers to support you. You just fall into the path of least resistance and have no buffer of these other planes to keep you in the lane, so you fall out of it. This makes the lift inefficient, drops force production, decreases stability, and increases injury risk.

So take some time to train these other planes, even if it's a loaded warmup for your main movements. Anything is better than nothing.

06/12/2026

TIGHT FASCIA???(of the thoracolumbar kind???)

I feel like all I talk about is the intrinsic cores role in back pain, but it's because it's important. Just look at the anatomy and you'll know why.

I have always had poor trunk rotation to the left, high tone TVA/IAO (and EAO tbh) on the left side. So basically my rotation is crap and I have a hard time bracing on half of my ribcage/pelvis 😂😂. It's something I'm hyper aware of and keep up on regularly so it doesn't become a detriment.

Therefore I am always doing some sort of thing to better control my breath and brace. To move my ribs more. To do that while under load of some sort.

I had someone come in recently who has a pretty low base strength, low training history, and some pain and discomfort. I used this variation of a side plank to 1) teach them to use their breath as a tool for movement 2) teach them to rotate and move their ribs 3) load that position in a relatively easy way.

And honestly it's harder than it looks and feels fantastic! Whatever we can do to get people to do the work and feel better 💪🏻

06/11/2026

I've helped hundreds of people get out of pain over the last 5 years of owning my practice.

The one common denominator of all of those people who got better is this: They took action and decided to get better.

Inaction can be just as bad as poor action, especially with chronic pain. But you also have to be ready to make change. Change is hard. It's uncomfortable, it takes work, and doesn't always have a linear path.

But staying where you are is going to produce 1 result: the one that you've been getting, which hasn't served you well.

I can tell right away when a new person comes in whether or not they'll get better, and they have to be ready to change.

And it's not my job to convince you to prioritize yourself. My job is to facilitate change, but you are the one changing.

I will sometimes turn someone away who I can tell won't do the work or who isn't ready to challenge themselves. In the past I would've tried to convince them, but honestly it always went like this:

They would work with me and I would put my heart and soul into creating a plan, teaching them how to do their homework, and encouraging them. But week after week they wouldn't do anything on their own. Lo and behold: not much changed and they didn't get better. There was a mismatch of desire to change and expectations. And guess what... both of us get frustrated.

"I don't have time", "it's hard", "I keep forgetting".

Most of the time they weren't ready to change. Take that same person but instead they have a fire under their ass to feel better and magic happens.

But that largely comes from you, not me. I can assure change is made, but you need to be willing to make it.

Are you ready to change? If so we'd love to hear from you and help facilitate it. DM us and we can chat about what's going on and see if it's a good fit.

STOP BLAMING YOUR PSOAS ON YOUR BACK PAINThe psoas gets a lot of blame for lower back pain, and sometimes it can be impo...
06/10/2026

STOP BLAMING YOUR PSOAS ON YOUR BACK PAIN

The psoas gets a lot of blame for lower back pain, and sometimes it can be important... BUT it often isn't the highest priority structure.

A lot of lower back pain occurs due to poor management of intra-abdominal pressure, force transfer through the core, poor spinal loading and movement, putting stress onto certain structures and not allowing distribution of load across the system.

The psoas just isn't a major player in these different functions. It does have spinal attachments, but it has them for extrinsic purposes of flexing the hip off of a stable structure and flexing the trunk when the femur is fixed. These attachments allow it to assist in stabilization, but it doesn't mean it's particularly good at it. Oftentimes the psoas is responding to something of higher importance not functioning as best as it should.

So if you're doing all of the best psoas work and not noticing change, it's either because 1) It isn't the priority. 2)You're assuming something that tightness means "stretch it" and it needs to be strengthened.

In my experience, the psoas is WAY more commonly found as a contributor in hip related pains/issues. I definitely do work with it in relation to lower back issues, but it's not as common as you would think.

What's your experience with back pain? Was your psoas a major player, or did it just scratch a small itch?

06/09/2026

DO THIS IF YOU HAVE A FLARE UP OF YOUR PAIN

Flare ups don't mean you need to stop everything. In the first 24-48hrs, take it easier, especially if the pain is severe and you hear any sounds/see any bruising (seek medical attention too **).

BUT assuming there isn't a catastrophic injury and you just had a pain spike, don't avoid movement. Instead do what you can, regress movements, ease yourself slowly into discomforting positions, and keep an optimistic mindset and don't become fearful/upset at yourself.

The people who have the most success are those who find a way rather than look away. You shouldn't be dumb and irresponsible (if you feel worse after doing this, something else may be going on and you need to seek help), but you can definitely do more than you think.

So while you're waiting until your next session with your practitioner, or waiting to get into see someone, do what you can. Your body will thank you later

06/05/2026

YOU DIDN'T FAIL REHAB.

The system did, and that's because it isn't built to handle chronic issues well. Acute injury/post surgery? Usually it's pretty good. Chronic issues that have layered problems and compensations? Not so much.

Working through chronic pain and injury takes time for a lot of people. You need to be able to problem solve, account for how other regions of the body contribute, understand how the brain changes over time with pain, how it emotionally effects people, etc.

It's like asking a carpenter to hook up electric in your house... they can probably do some of it, but at some point you're going to notice that they didn't account for ampage going into the breaker and every time you try to turn on a lamp, you blow a fuse.

Sure you have electricity, but it's clearly not working.

This is why I built Uplift. To be the proverbial electrician for people who don't fit into the model and need a more individualized approach that can take the time to investigate and understand the root of the issue.

Everyone has their role and is fantastic at it. But sometimes you need someone with a different approach for what you need solving for, just like having an electrician hook up your house.

06/04/2026

THIS IS WHY YOUR SHOULDER STILL HURTS

Most people go right into doing rotator cuff/localized shoulder work even though the shoulder joint is dependent on the ribs, cervical spine, scapula, and clavicle to function as best as it can.

You can do those strengthening exercises, but they would probably be much more effective if you address those other things first, or at least in tandem with the shoulder stuff.

I didn't make the rules. Anatomy and Biomechanics did. And a lot of the time if you improve those things, the shoulder gets better way quicker.

So feel free to do your ER/IR drills, BUT make sure your scaps can move and that you can rotate your torso.

Stop chasing your pain and get to the root of your issue.These are the 3 steps I follow every time I work with someone t...
06/02/2026

Stop chasing your pain and get to the root of your issue.

These are the 3 steps I follow every time I work with someone to understand the factors contributing to their pain, create a plan to change those factors using manual therapy and movement, and integrate those changes through strength.

Where a lot of approaches fail is that they're treating the body like a machine rather than a whole integrated unit. Just because your knee is hurting that doesn't mean you need to do things at the knee. Pre-set protocols that an insurance company deems best care don't take into account of the history and circumstances of the individual, especially as you have more chronic issues.

The typical model doesn't allow for a thorough assessment process because there's an assumed direction based on the code that's entered into the system, because you're seeing someone who is shoehorned into a "flow" based on where they work, or they literally just don't have the time because they need to focus on quantity of people treated rather than quality.

It's a consequence of the overarching system, not the individual practitioner.

This process shown here has proven time and time again to be successful. It's individualistic, combines different modalities based on needs, and works to create long lasting change through strength rather than stopping the second you feel better.

This is why it works. This is why we do it this way. If you're ready to stop chasing your pain and get answers to it instead, let's get started. DM us to learn more!

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