Secret to Alleviating Chronic Pain? I once hired a kid from Arizona State University to help me with marketing. He asked me to explain what I do so he could prepare some materials. I thought about that for a second and said, “Basically, I fix TMJ and headaches in patients who’ve suffered for years from these disorders. My success rate is 98%.” The kid’s eyes […]
Read MoreEliminate Your Pain Neurologically That’s probably the question my patients ask me most often. And it’s a very good question since it goes to the root of something very important, something they didn’t know about themselves. My name is Paul Ruth, I’m the founder of Mojo Physio, a physical rehabilitation center in Scottsdale, Arizona. For the past 30 years, I’ve focused on how the human […]
Read MoreLearn Mojo Physio Alleviate Pain My name is Paul Ruth. I’m a holistic neuromuscular specialist who focuses on the treatment of TMJ (more commonly known as lockjaw) and headaches. My success rate in these two areas is over 98%. Meaning it’s rare indeed that a patient comes to me for relief and doesn’t experience it. And not just for a couple of days or weeks […]
Read MoreWhy Do I Call My Physical Therapy Center Mojo Physio? I have to confess something. Names drive me nuts. They’re so damn subjective. Ask one person if they think the name of your business is good does it resonate how does it make them feel? They’ll tell you it pops. Ask another person, they’ll tell you it sucks. Why Mojo Physio Physical Therapy Center? I […]
Read MoreWhat Is A Migraine Headache? Ah, yes. The world of migraine headaches. It’s a vast, sprawling world without definite borders. For instance, these days, most people use the word “migraine” to indicate that they have an especially powerful headache. When the concept of migraines is just as elusive, just as mysterious now as it was 50 years ago. The pharmaceutical industry has indeed come up […]
Read MoreBest Tip for Correcting Your Posture Have you heard about Tech Neck? It’s a common condition these days. Tech Neck is a postural imbalance that happens because so many of us spend our days sitting in front of a computer. Or staring at our phones with our chins tucked down. Small wonder that so many of us have crappy posture. But this can be fixed, […]
Read MoreWhy Dentists Fail To Treat TMJ Paul Ruth here owner and founder of Mojo Physio, a physical rehabilitation center specializing in pain relief from TMJ and headaches in Scottsdale, Arizona. My success rate for treating TMJ and headaches is 98% and most of my patients feel an immediate 50 to 80% reduction in pain after their first session. After only four sessions or so many […]
Read MoreBody Mapping Can Cure Pain In the mid-2000s, I began teaching a national seminar on how to relieve pain through physical touch. People fly from all over the country to study with me, but that doesn’t mean they agree with what I teach them at first. A lot of them think what I’m telling them won’t work in clinical practice, but of course, it does. […]
Read MoreReady To Discover How Pain Works? I would say that 80% of the seminars I’ve taken from gurus in the healing arts have been a busts. What do I mean by busts? When I asked them pointed questions about how pain works in the human body, most of them just shrugged and said, “I don’t know. That’s just how it is.” I remember thinking, “I […]
Read MoreReady To Heal Your Nervous System? I can’t tell you how many people come to my practice seeking relief from their TMJ. Most have already gone to another specialist, which means a dentist. Sadly, dentists maintain only a 6 to 8% success rate for treating TMJ. Whereas my success rate for treating TMJ and headaches is 98%. How is this possible? It’s a question of […]
Read MoreIs Stress Backing Up Your Nervous System? Neuroscience doesn’t have to be super complicated. For instance, here’s a principle you should remember: chronic pain can develop in nervous systems that get backed up. What do I mean by “backed up?” Imagine we rolled up all the nerves in a healthy, pain-free person’s body. Let’s say that roll of nerves could be housed in a basketball. […]
Read MoreThe Key To Help Treat Chronic Pain My name is Paul Ruth. I’m the owner and founder of Mojo Physio in Scottsdale, Arizona. My specialty is treating TMJ and headaches. I have a 98% success rate. I remember one time, a mother and father brought their twelve-year-old daughter to see me. The Key To Help Treat Chronic Pain This poor girl suffered from constant pain. […]
Read MoreYour Nervous System Can Fix TMJ?! My name is Paul Ruth. I run a physical rehabilitation center in Scottsdale, Arizona called Mojo Physio. At Mojo Physio, we specialize in TMJ and headaches. We have a 98% success rate. Meaning that 98% of our patients are pain-free after treatment, for good. People always ask me why my success rate is so damn high. It’s simple, I […]
Read MoreThat’s a trick question. The answer depends on what your muscles remember. Let me explain. Suppose you play sports. In that case, muscle memory helps you perfect your golf swing or the way you roller skate. But what if you suffer an injury? Science tells us that muscles immediately go into spasm, inhibiting motion to protect the wounded area. Then the body starts to compensate, […]
Read MoreI met the love of my life in 1990 but I wasn’t making enough money at my job. So I made a tough choice. I decided to go back to the trucking industry even though I knew it was tough. Even though I knew I didn’t really want to. Turns out I hated that job, just like I thought I would. After one year, I […]
Read MoreIf You Suffer from Aches and Pains, Beware the Posture Police! My father-in-law didn’t talk to me for four years. He’s a great guy but he thought I did massage work, which was a bit too touchy-feely for him. Then one day, he finally broke and came to me about his persistent low back pain. Which I fixed in one session. “How did you do […]
Read MoreAfter eight months, I got laid off from my trucking supervisor job. I ended up taking a new job that was way beneath my pay grade. What do I mean by that? Used to be I’d unload 11,000 trucks a night with a workforce of 250 Teamsters. This new job, when I got there, they were unloading—get this—two trailers a night using eleven guys. I […]
Read MoreI witnessed a peculiar thing happen in the wake of the Ramstein air show disaster. I’ve already written about my friend Hoss. How we thought he’d died when the Italian planes collided in mid-air and something like a hundred people were killed by raining fire and debris. Well. Turns out that wouldn’t be Hoss’s first brush with near-death via airplane. A couple months later, he […]
Read MoreIn the healing world, touch is the most powerful modality I know of. I never knew anything about the art of healing or massage or energy work or anything related to that. I was just a guy who had done a lot of athletics in his life. And who, from time to time, had suffered certain injuries and issues himself. It never occurred to me […]
Read MoreI don’t have many regrets in life but I do regret my dad not being around much during my formative years. Mom was mostly an absentee parent. And the town I grew up in, Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore … well, it was rough. There were a lot of influences around me that could have led me down a wrong path. It would have […]
Read MoreMy being present at the Ramstein air show disaster had another unintended consequence. I’ve already written about how I struggled with PTSD and guilt after everything happened. I had run from flaming debris, leaving my friends and my wife alone to fend for themselves. Eventually, through therapy provided by the Air Force, I was able to see that reaction as normal. But I wasn’t quite […]
Read MoreAs I wrote about previously, I suddenly found myself the manager of a bunch of Teamsters I used to work with on a loading dock when I first arrived in Arizona. Which would have been great except I didn’t factor in that Teamsters don’t like managers much. They hate them, in fact. Not good. My former friends started sabotaging my work. Basically, they put goods […]
Read MoreI met my first wife when I was serving in the Air Force, stationed in Victorville, California. We were dating. Pretty casual. Then the Air Force gave me red line orders: move to Germany within a month or leave the service. We got married right away so she could come with me. It was romantic, we thought. As my wife, she had the right to […]
Read MoreI didn’t have a job when I left the Air Force and followed my soon to be ex-wife to Arizona. It was 1990. My soon to be ex-wife’s father was a long-haul driver for a Teamster outfit called Yellow Freight Trucking. He got me some night shift work—what was called casual work—unloading freight on a loading dock for $22 an hour. That was the job […]
Read MoreI don’t consider myself a foodie, but I thought the food in Germany was awesome! I was stationed in Germany back when I played racquetball for the U.S. Air Force. And what I discovered about German food is that, while it’s not necessarily healthy, it sure is comfortable. Schnitzel. Wursts and sausages. Beer. I’m getting hungry again just thinking about it. But this is important […]
Read MoreI’ve already written about how I nearly lost my life at the USAF Ramstein air show disaster near Kaiserslautern, West Germany in 1988. How some Italian planes attempting to pull off an aerial formation collided in mid-air. How the fireball and debris their collision created killed about a hundred people. Three hours later, my group of friends was still missing one of its members, this […]
Read MoreI nearly lost my life at the Ramstein air show disaster near Kaiserslautern, West Germany in 1988. I was serving in the U.S. Air Force at the time. The show attracted about 100,000 people each year. It was a cultural high point in those parts back in the day. My first wife and I attended with a group of about nine friends. It was a […]
Read MoreI don’t have many regrets in life but I do regret my dad not being around much during my formative years. Mom was mostly an absentee parent. And the town I grew up in, Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore … well, it was rough. There were a lot of influences around me that could have led me down a wrong path. It would have […]
Read MoreIn 1988, I played in the European Racquetball Championship, Hamburg, Germany. It was one of the swankiest clubs I’d ever played at. I checked in and went to the locker room to get ready. Imagine my surprise when I walked in on a naked woman. (That sort of thing never happened to me back in the United States.) I covered my eyes at once and […]
Read MoreI was what you might call a born athlete. I had never been much into sports until my parents got divorced and my mom and I moved to Annapolis, Maryland. At some point in there, I discovered I had a natural talent for racquetball, which was all the rage back in the 1980s. I was also an excellent baseball player, so good that I could […]
Read MoreThe Air Force issued me red line orders: Accept a new post in Germany and extend your service for two years or go back to civilian life. Oh. And if I chose to move to Germany, I’d have to leave in two to four weeks. I’d been stationed in California. Paradise. This was going to be a very big switch. But I took it. I’d […]
Read MoreLife wasn’t easy growing up in Catonsville, Maryland. It’s a suburb of Baltimore. I lived there until I was nine or ten years old. Dad was a bricklayer. He worked in construction. Mom worked for Noxell, a perfume and chemical company that few people have heard of but they own big brands like Noxema and CoverGirl. We lived on McCurley Avenue, which was really a […]
Read MoreJoining the Air Force saved my life. I grew up in a rough neighborhood under challenging circumstances, but the military offered me a way out. A born athlete, I was able to surf and play racquetball for the USAF. (Yes, you heard that right. I surfed for the Air Force. And did really well at it, too.) Being in the military gave me direction. I’ll […]
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