Yes, I tend to talk a lot about posture, but this time around I don’t mean that question in the postural sense. I am asking about your attitude toward challenges in life. Thomas Jefferson once said:
Posts under ‘Self-care’
Make your sleep more restful
Sleep should be a restful period, but for a lot of people with chronic pain, it’s not. For some reason, sleeping actually seems to make pain and fatigue worse. Frustrating? Yes. Incomprehensible? No. When pain is a result of poor posture, sleeping can often exacerbate the pain. Beds often tweak the body in ways that [...]
Wrist pain taught me to stand up straight
I was a student at UCLA. I worked in an on-campus computer lab. One winter, I injured my right shoulder in mid-air while snowboarding. I struggled to figure out how to help my shoulder heal, but nothing was helping. Physical therapy wasn’t helping. Sitting on my butt, chatting online, and updating my friendster profile while [...]
Another back ache bites the dust
Got some more pictures for you of someone who’s suffered with back pain for about 6 years. Not just back pain, but searing, debilitating back pain. Now, to be clear and upfront, he’s still got some pain lingering around, but he’s moving very obviously in the right direction. For someone who’s had nonstop pain for [...]
Wisdom comes from failure
I just wanted to share a quick quote that is truly relevant to the way we treat our bodies and how we bring them back to health. We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do by finding out what we will not do. ~Samuel Smiles As we [...]
Ever woken up with back pain?
Have you ever woken up from a good night’s rest to find your back in miserable spasm? You can’t turn to the side. Every step you take is like having someone twist the knife that someone else must’ve jammed into your back while you were sleeping? In fact, I just had this same experience a [...]
Miserable malalignment can be fixed quickly!
Ever hear of the medical diagnosis “miserable malalignment?” Neither had I, until a client of mine who’s a physical therapist told me she had once been diagnosed with the condition (I still have trouble believing it’s a real diagnosis because it sounds so mean-spirited). What is it? Well, it’s when a bunch of things in [...]
A superstar fixes his posture!
I have to share these pictures of a client who recently started working with me. He’s a guy who, before he came to me, had already gone through months and months of chiropractic treatments and prescribed exercises and still had the same old recurring pain and the same old bad posture. Look at what he [...]
Are your tires aligned?
One of the best metaphors for the way your body works is one of the car. Let’s say your left front tire keeps going bald. Every seven months, the left front tire is run totally bald — and yet somehow all the other tires seem to be fine. Is the problem the tire, or is [...]
Your email addiction is killing you!
I know, you have to check your email again. There might be SOMETHING really good in there, so you HAVE to stay sitting there with your neck stretched out and your shoulders rounded. If you’ve been trying to snap your addiction to email for your posture and productivity’s sake, Google’s got a fantastic tool for you.
