Staying motivated to exercise is a common issue for many. Latest research has shed some light of the barriers and paths to being successful. Here’s how to overcome those challenges and maintain your goals.
Results for the category: Flexibility
Holistic Approaches to Prevent Knee Pain
Chronic knee pain affects millions of people due to injury, overuse, or underlying conditions. Here’s a helpful guide that will help you avoid knee pain.
Movement is the CURE
Including movement into your day can be the cure to many health issues that plague us later in life. Movement has incredible benefits to overall health and helps promote longevity.
Yoga Can Soothe Low Back Pain
With gentle stretches, strengthening poses and focus on breath and mindfulness, yoga can be a powerful tool to alleviate and soothe low back pain.
Rejuvenate and Unwind After a Long Day
After a long day, taking some time to stretch can be a game-changer for your well-being. It will help rejuvenate and relax your body and mind.
Understanding Frozen Shoulder
What is Frozen Shoulder? Frozen shoulder is medically known as adhesive capsulitis. It's a painful and restrictive condition that affects the shoulder joint and can significantly impact one's daily life and functionality. Causes of Frozen Shoulder The cause of a...
Understanding Upper Cross Syndrome
Sedentary Lifestyle and Poor Posture are Key Factors in Upper Cross Syndrome In today's digital age, most of us spend hours hunched over computer screens and smartphones or sitting in comfy chairs watching TV. This sedentary lifestyle, combined with poor posture, can...
A Surprising Predictor of Longevity
A Quest for Longer Life In the quest for a longer and healthier life, people often turn to diets, exercise routines, and other wellness practices to maintain their well-being. While these are undoubtedly essential, an often overlooked indicator of overall health and...
Unlock Flexibility with a Full Body Stretch
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often neglect the importance of stretching and relaxation. The Supta Utthita Tadasana, also known as the Full Body Stretch Pose, is a yoga asana that can help you combat stress, improve flexibility, and rejuvenate your...
Malasana Pose Benefits Lower Body, Hips & Back
A Comprehensive Guide to Building Lower Body Strength, Hip Mobility and Alleviating Back PainA Key Yoga Pose that Benefits Lower Body, Hips and Back Malasana, also known as Garland Pose, is a fundamental yoga pose revered in yoga practices for centuries. Whether...
The Link Between Hiking, Proprioception and Back Pain
There’s an important link between proprioception, body awareness and the reduced likelihood of developing back pain. Find out more.
Spinal Stenosis: What is it, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Spinal stenosis is when the spinal canal narrows and causes pressure on the spinal cord or the nerves that branch off it. Know the symptoms for early detection which will improve treatment success.
Piriformis Syndrome Treatment, Symptoms and Causes
Piriformis syndrome: When the piriformis muscle is irritated or inflamed. Identify the symptoms and cause to ensure accurate treatment.
3 Stretches to Release the Psoas Muscle
Use these methods to determine if your psoas muscle is tight and out of balance and try these 3 stretches to correct issues you have associated this muscle.
Lower Back Pain Stretches
Stretching techniques are integral to reducing and improving lower back pain. Here are stretches and videos that key to improving back pain.
Channel Your Inner Athlete for Optimal Health
We all know that feeling. You're in the zone, entirely focused and performing at your absolute best. Every movement seems to flow effortlessly. Time seems to stand still, and you feel invincible. Athletes call this "the zone" or "being in the flow." It's a state of...
The Power of Positive Thinking on Back Pain
Positive thinking is extremely powerful and it can be the key element in helping you reduce and recover from back pain and injury.
How Chair Yoga Can Benefit Your Health
Regular yoga practice has been shown to provide a plethora of health benefits. These benefits include improved flexibility, joint function, muscle strength, balance and coordination, and more. Suppose you're looking for a way to improve your health. In that case,...
Less Back Pain, Better Posture
Bio-mechanics and spine anatomy are the primary factors in chronic back pain. Improving your posture within various body positions and movement activities, greatly reduces back pain issues.
Causes of Lower Back Pain
About Your Lower Back Pain :: Improving your fitness is one of the best things you can do if you want to live a healthy, active life and prevent lower back pain. First, it is essential to understand the anatomy of YOUR spine and its supporting structures. The spine is...
How to Naturally Manage Your Chronic Pain
The most effective treatment to naturally manage chronic pain includes both a variety of traditional medical and complementary techniques.
Difference Between Chronic and Acute Pain
The biggest difference is that acute pain starts quickly and goes away where chronic pain is ongoing typically lasting longer than 6 months.
The Benefits of Yoga
The benefits of yoga go beyond improved flexibility. Studies have shown it improves strength, balance, mobility, pain, awareness and more.
Improving Back Pain Requires Belief & Determination
Just like many other businesses, I get client referrals from local physical therapists. Periodically I check in with them to keep the relationship going. I’d like to share the most significant part of a recent conversation with one physical therapist. The conversation...
How to Get Rid of a Charlie Horse
Charlie horses, can occur out of nowhere. These simple tips and practices will help you prevent and get rid of an existing charlie horse.
Rotator Cuff Injuries
Over 460,000 rotator cuff surgeries performed each year in the US, making this injury the second most common soft tissue repair performed. Here’s what you can do to help prevent a rotator cuff injury.
Core Strength and Stability
Core strength and stability is dependent on a number of factors. How we walk and sit are two primary elements that contribute, here’s how…
These Hips Are Made for Walking
Your hips play a pivotol role when walking. Proper flexibiliby and balance helps your hip movements and prevents walking difficulties.
Proper Walking Techniques
Proper walking techniques are essential to keep your body aligned and assure that your muscles work efficiently and effectively.
Shoulder Blade Pain
What is the shoulder blade? The scapula, aka shoulder blade, is a sizable triangular-shaped bone that lies in the upper back surrounded and supported by a complex system of muscles. These muscles work together to help you move your arm. Your arm and scapula are...
Shoulder Pain and Prevention
Customized treatment plans can improve range of motion, strength and reduce swelling to improve existing shoulder pain and prevention of future occurrences.
Proper Alignment: What’s YOUR Pandemic Posture?
Proper alignment is essential as we find ourselves sitting more than normal. To be in proper alignment when sitting follow these simple guidelines.
Benefits of Daily Stretching
Adding stretching into your weekly routine is essential to increase your strength, flexibility, range of motion and to help keep your muscles healthy.
Working From Home
Our workspace can be the cause of future aches and pains. When working from home, don’t overlook the importance of a proper workspace.
Flexible Ankles
It’s important to keep your ankles flexible to help maintain mobility and balance and to reduce the chance of injury, damage or inflammation.
Posture Awareness for Better Overall Health
Improper alignment, it affects us in many negative ways. It’s important to have posture awareness in order to correct damaging behaviors. Here’s why and also how to identify your own alignment issues.
Common Causes of Headaches, Neck Pain & Shoulder Pain
Head, neck and shoulder pain are often linked to inproper alignment. Technology use and sitting are the primary causes of the misalignment.
Common Causes of Headaches, Neck Pain & Shoulder Pain
Headache, neck pain and shoulder pain are common issues that frequently have common causes. Here’s what they are and how to avoid them.
Reduce Back Pain
Back pain can be different for each of us. Try some of these tried and true methods to help reduce your back pain and get back to living pain free!
Hamstring Muscles: When to Strengthen & Stretch
Strengthen and stretch your hamstring muscles to avoid many issues. These simple stretches will help relieve tight hamstrings and help you move more freely.
Quad Muscles: How to Keep them Strong and Balanced
Quad muscles play an important role in our body, but they can also cause us a lot of discomfort and pain. Use these simple techniques to relieve tight quad muscles and get back to living pain free.
Sciatica: Understanding and Managing Symptoms
Sciatica symptoms are hard to ignore as they can be both painful and concerning. Here’s exactly what it is and ways you can manage, lessen and even help prevent sciatica pain.
Recognizing and Correcting Bad Habits
Bad habits can often be the reason we develop pain. Recognizing bad habits and taking steps to correcting them are key to feeling better physically.
7 Ways to Keep Your Feet Healthy & Happy
Healthy feet are a key component to the enjoyment of life, and nothing is more miserable than having sore feet. Here are seven ways to keep your feet healthy.
The Connection Between Pain and Breathing
Breathing is about movement. How you move other parts of the body influences how well you breathe and has a connection to why you might have pain.
Is Yoga Balanced?
Yoga is a well balanced option for those who need diversity in their regular routine and movements. Find out why this balance is so important for our bodies.
Why Practice Yoga?
There are so many benefits when you practice yoga. Some common benefits of yoga are: grounding, stretching, moving, strengthening, reducing pain and stress, and so much more.
Blue Zones: Lifestyles of those Living Longer
Do you ever wish you could live in a perfect world? Blue Zones might be the place, or as close to perfect as one can get. Their secrets to living longer.
Dynamic & Static Stretching
It is essential to know the difference between dynamic and static stretching. Here each are explained with examples of different stretches for you to try.
The Importance of Stretching
The importance of stretching in your daily routine is key to staying flexible and loosening any tight areas with limited movement. It’s as important, if not more, than the fitness routine itself.
Body Stiffness: It May Be Your Fascia
If you have body stiffness or pain, you might be surprised to know that it could be related to your fascia which requires regular movements and stretching.
Fascia and Why it can Cause Us Pain
Fascia is the connective tissue that holds everything in place. Restricting movement due to injury or pain can affect other areas of the body.
Exercises for Bone Health
There are two types of bone health exercises that are necessary for building and maintaining bone density: weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening. Here I explain in further detail.
Strengthening Your Core
Here are the benefits and exercises to develop, maintain and strengthen your core. These are many issues associated with having a weak core.
How to Loosen Tight Hamstrings
Do You Have Tight Hamstrings? Improvement is as easy as 1-2-3. Here are 3 simple tips for prevention as well as how to properly loosen tight hamstrings.
The Benefits of Movement
Movement is so important in stretching your joints and keeping them lubricated. Here are some fun creative ways to incorporate movement in your daily life.
How Could Sitting be Bad for YOU?
Sitting too long is not healthy for our bodies. With the explosion of technology, many lives are not balanced with enough physical activity.
Staying Motivated to Exercise
Staying motivated to exercise is a common issue for many. Latest research has shed some light of the barriers and paths to being successful. Here’s how to overcome those challenges and maintain your goals.
Holistic Approaches to Prevent Knee Pain
Chronic knee pain affects millions of people due to injury, overuse, or underlying conditions. Here’s a helpful guide that will help you avoid knee pain.
Movement is the CURE
Including movement into your day can be the cure to many health issues that plague us later in life. Movement has incredible benefits to overall health and helps promote longevity.
Yoga Can Soothe Low Back Pain
With gentle stretches, strengthening poses and focus on breath and mindfulness, yoga can be a powerful tool to alleviate and soothe low back pain.
Rejuvenate and Unwind After a Long Day
After a long day, taking some time to stretch can be a game-changer for your well-being. It will help rejuvenate and relax your body and mind.
Understanding Frozen Shoulder
What is Frozen Shoulder? Frozen shoulder is medically known as adhesive capsulitis. It's a painful and restrictive condition that affects the shoulder joint and can significantly impact one's daily life and functionality. Causes of Frozen Shoulder The cause of a...
Understanding Upper Cross Syndrome
Sedentary Lifestyle and Poor Posture are Key Factors in Upper Cross Syndrome In today's digital age, most of us spend hours hunched over computer screens and smartphones or sitting in comfy chairs watching TV. This sedentary lifestyle, combined with poor posture, can...
A Surprising Predictor of Longevity
A Quest for Longer Life In the quest for a longer and healthier life, people often turn to diets, exercise routines, and other wellness practices to maintain their well-being. While these are undoubtedly essential, an often overlooked indicator of overall health and...
Unlock Flexibility with a Full Body Stretch
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often neglect the importance of stretching and relaxation. The Supta Utthita Tadasana, also known as the Full Body Stretch Pose, is a yoga asana that can help you combat stress, improve flexibility, and rejuvenate your...
Malasana Pose Benefits Lower Body, Hips & Back
A Comprehensive Guide to Building Lower Body Strength, Hip Mobility and Alleviating Back PainA Key Yoga Pose that Benefits Lower Body, Hips and Back Malasana, also known as Garland Pose, is a fundamental yoga pose revered in yoga practices for centuries. Whether...
The Link Between Hiking, Proprioception and Back Pain
There’s an important link between proprioception, body awareness and the reduced likelihood of developing back pain. Find out more.
Spinal Stenosis: What is it, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Spinal stenosis is when the spinal canal narrows and causes pressure on the spinal cord or the nerves that branch off it. Know the symptoms for early detection which will improve treatment success.
Piriformis Syndrome Treatment, Symptoms and Causes
Piriformis syndrome: When the piriformis muscle is irritated or inflamed. Identify the symptoms and cause to ensure accurate treatment.
3 Stretches to Release the Psoas Muscle
Use these methods to determine if your psoas muscle is tight and out of balance and try these 3 stretches to correct issues you have associated this muscle.
Lower Back Pain Stretches
Stretching techniques are integral to reducing and improving lower back pain. Here are stretches and videos that key to improving back pain.
Channel Your Inner Athlete for Optimal Health
We all know that feeling. You're in the zone, entirely focused and performing at your absolute best. Every movement seems to flow effortlessly. Time seems to stand still, and you feel invincible. Athletes call this "the zone" or "being in the flow." It's a state of...
The Power of Positive Thinking on Back Pain
Positive thinking is extremely powerful and it can be the key element in helping you reduce and recover from back pain and injury.
How Chair Yoga Can Benefit Your Health
Regular yoga practice has been shown to provide a plethora of health benefits. These benefits include improved flexibility, joint function, muscle strength, balance and coordination, and more. Suppose you're looking for a way to improve your health. In that case,...
Less Back Pain, Better Posture
Bio-mechanics and spine anatomy are the primary factors in chronic back pain. Improving your posture within various body positions and movement activities, greatly reduces back pain issues.
Causes of Lower Back Pain
About Your Lower Back Pain :: Improving your fitness is one of the best things you can do if you want to live a healthy, active life and prevent lower back pain. First, it is essential to understand the anatomy of YOUR spine and its supporting structures. The spine is...
How to Naturally Manage Your Chronic Pain
The most effective treatment to naturally manage chronic pain includes both a variety of traditional medical and complementary techniques.
Difference Between Chronic and Acute Pain
The biggest difference is that acute pain starts quickly and goes away where chronic pain is ongoing typically lasting longer than 6 months.
The Benefits of Yoga
The benefits of yoga go beyond improved flexibility. Studies have shown it improves strength, balance, mobility, pain, awareness and more.
Improving Back Pain Requires Belief & Determination
Just like many other businesses, I get client referrals from local physical therapists. Periodically I check in with them to keep the relationship going. I’d like to share the most significant part of a recent conversation with one physical therapist. The conversation...
How to Get Rid of a Charlie Horse
Charlie horses, can occur out of nowhere. These simple tips and practices will help you prevent and get rid of an existing charlie horse.
Rotator Cuff Injuries
Over 460,000 rotator cuff surgeries performed each year in the US, making this injury the second most common soft tissue repair performed. Here’s what you can do to help prevent a rotator cuff injury.
Core Strength and Stability
Core strength and stability is dependent on a number of factors. How we walk and sit are two primary elements that contribute, here’s how…
These Hips Are Made for Walking
Your hips play a pivotol role when walking. Proper flexibiliby and balance helps your hip movements and prevents walking difficulties.
Proper Walking Techniques
Proper walking techniques are essential to keep your body aligned and assure that your muscles work efficiently and effectively.
Shoulder Blade Pain
What is the shoulder blade? The scapula, aka shoulder blade, is a sizable triangular-shaped bone that lies in the upper back surrounded and supported by a complex system of muscles. These muscles work together to help you move your arm. Your arm and scapula are...
Shoulder Pain and Prevention
Customized treatment plans can improve range of motion, strength and reduce swelling to improve existing shoulder pain and prevention of future occurrences.
Proper Alignment: What’s YOUR Pandemic Posture?
Proper alignment is essential as we find ourselves sitting more than normal. To be in proper alignment when sitting follow these simple guidelines.
Benefits of Daily Stretching
Adding stretching into your weekly routine is essential to increase your strength, flexibility, range of motion and to help keep your muscles healthy.
Working From Home
Our workspace can be the cause of future aches and pains. When working from home, don’t overlook the importance of a proper workspace.
Flexible Ankles
It’s important to keep your ankles flexible to help maintain mobility and balance and to reduce the chance of injury, damage or inflammation.
Posture Awareness for Better Overall Health
Improper alignment, it affects us in many negative ways. It’s important to have posture awareness in order to correct damaging behaviors. Here’s why and also how to identify your own alignment issues.
Common Causes of Headaches, Neck Pain & Shoulder Pain
Head, neck and shoulder pain are often linked to inproper alignment. Technology use and sitting are the primary causes of the misalignment.
Common Causes of Headaches, Neck Pain & Shoulder Pain
Headache, neck pain and shoulder pain are common issues that frequently have common causes. Here’s what they are and how to avoid them.
Reduce Back Pain
Back pain can be different for each of us. Try some of these tried and true methods to help reduce your back pain and get back to living pain free!
Hamstring Muscles: When to Strengthen & Stretch
Strengthen and stretch your hamstring muscles to avoid many issues. These simple stretches will help relieve tight hamstrings and help you move more freely.
Quad Muscles: How to Keep them Strong and Balanced
Quad muscles play an important role in our body, but they can also cause us a lot of discomfort and pain. Use these simple techniques to relieve tight quad muscles and get back to living pain free.
Sciatica: Understanding and Managing Symptoms
Sciatica symptoms are hard to ignore as they can be both painful and concerning. Here’s exactly what it is and ways you can manage, lessen and even help prevent sciatica pain.
Recognizing and Correcting Bad Habits
Bad habits can often be the reason we develop pain. Recognizing bad habits and taking steps to correcting them are key to feeling better physically.
7 Ways to Keep Your Feet Healthy & Happy
Healthy feet are a key component to the enjoyment of life, and nothing is more miserable than having sore feet. Here are seven ways to keep your feet healthy.
The Connection Between Pain and Breathing
Breathing is about movement. How you move other parts of the body influences how well you breathe and has a connection to why you might have pain.
Is Yoga Balanced?
Yoga is a well balanced option for those who need diversity in their regular routine and movements. Find out why this balance is so important for our bodies.
Why Practice Yoga?
There are so many benefits when you practice yoga. Some common benefits of yoga are: grounding, stretching, moving, strengthening, reducing pain and stress, and so much more.
Blue Zones: Lifestyles of those Living Longer
Do you ever wish you could live in a perfect world? Blue Zones might be the place, or as close to perfect as one can get. Their secrets to living longer.
Dynamic & Static Stretching
It is essential to know the difference between dynamic and static stretching. Here each are explained with examples of different stretches for you to try.
The Importance of Stretching
The importance of stretching in your daily routine is key to staying flexible and loosening any tight areas with limited movement. It’s as important, if not more, than the fitness routine itself.
Body Stiffness: It May Be Your Fascia
If you have body stiffness or pain, you might be surprised to know that it could be related to your fascia which requires regular movements and stretching.
Fascia and Why it can Cause Us Pain
Fascia is the connective tissue that holds everything in place. Restricting movement due to injury or pain can affect other areas of the body.
Exercises for Bone Health
There are two types of bone health exercises that are necessary for building and maintaining bone density: weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening. Here I explain in further detail.
Strengthening Your Core
Here are the benefits and exercises to develop, maintain and strengthen your core. These are many issues associated with having a weak core.
How to Loosen Tight Hamstrings
Do You Have Tight Hamstrings? Improvement is as easy as 1-2-3. Here are 3 simple tips for prevention as well as how to properly loosen tight hamstrings.
The Benefits of Movement
Movement is so important in stretching your joints and keeping them lubricated. Here are some fun creative ways to incorporate movement in your daily life.
How Could Sitting be Bad for YOU?
Sitting too long is not healthy for our bodies. With the explosion of technology, many lives are not balanced with enough physical activity.