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Prolonged Sitting and Back Pain

Prolonged Sitting and Back Pain

Video Courtesy of www.muscleandmotion.com Amazing how well this shows how we get into trouble with our whole body when we slouch. The results from slouching are not simply just going to go away. Happening to our kids, elderly and many office workers, or truck drivers...

IS Your Spine under attack? low back pain

IS Your Spine under attack? low back pain

Often we do not even consider that we are sitting on our spines making them feel as if under attack with low back pain, until we have a spasm that takes us away into breathlessness suddenly. This has happened to me, and I bet it has happened to many more. We are...

Looking to eliminate back pain for good? Learn to sit properly.

Exercises like wall sits and squats serve lots of benefit in relieving pain temporarily, but the real progress for eliminating your back pain comes from learning to sit properly. Learning to sit up straight will train your spine to be better aligned, reducing the...

6 Exercises For Lower Back Pain Relief

Did you know that according to the National Academy for Sports, the percentage of the U.S. adult population that will experience lower back pain is 80%? Although that statistic is striking, it ensures that you're not alone and many others (at least 26 million) or...

Mind Body Approach towards Inflammation: Feldenkrais Method

As a Physical Therapist Assistant, I would utilize when seeing patient, my Feldenkrais Methods use of simple movements within complex patterns. In hopes of develping the students' to use there sense of touch and there imagination on how to execute. After short rests...

Creating Up, Lift, Length in Your Body

These ideas have a great ideal approximation of how we might even think of using the spine. When using the SITTS cushions, we can understand what the model ideal is, maybe we can attain that ideal with a little coaching. The idea that the suspension between the bones...

4 Easy Psoas Stretches

4 Easy Psoas Stretches

Here are some great psoas muscle stretches. If I feel like the muscle is making my back tight, after sitting long hours, this muscle is tight and shortened. If we stood up every hour and just brought our leg behind as far as comfortable, we then look away from the leg...