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A lot of people have their favorite pain killers. But if you like being able to breathe well, you might want to take a quick look in your medicine cabinet and see if any of your favorite pain killers happens to be acetaminophen.
Find out why acetaminophen’s side effects might make you gasp.
Every week, we witness a lot of amazing successes at Upright Health. We see people beat their pain and regain control of their lives, but sometimes people don’t believe us when we tell them about it!
So we’re asking our clients: what is your favorite exercise and what does it do for you? Post your [...]
Did stress take its toll on you in 2011? Did it scatter your brain or sit on your shoulders? Does stress always go straight to your back and shoulders no matter how often you do your postural exercises?
If you’d like to learn to how to control stress on a daily basis with simple, practical, [...]
The most common myth you hear out in the world about knee osteoarthritis is that running and jogging is what does you in. “It’s all the shock,” doctors say. “It’s just too much wear and tear,” friends say. Did you know that this conventional wisdom is actually wrong?
We recently posted a link on our [...]
In May of 2006, I had a breast augmentation procedure done. I was 25 at the time, and I had long been self-conscious about my breast size. The surgery went off without a hitch, and I was happy with this “better” version of myself. I have always been active and athletic, so I went right [...]
Just got this wonderful little note from a client last week. She had been struggling with back and hip pain and sciatica-like issues before coming to Upright Health. After several months of postural exercises, she was confident that she’d be able to enjoy a vacation to England and France with her daughter. [...]
Your posture says a lot about muscular balance. It is a visual representation of how well your muscles coordinate with each other. That’s useful information if you’re a paleolithic guy or gal running around on the plains, but it’s also useful information for job seekers and business people negotiating deals in conference rooms.
Researchers at [...]
Wondering if your shoulders are able to do what they’re supposed to do? Test their range of motion with this easy, gentle test.
Just a quick, quick note for a beautiful Saturday in San Diego.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
~Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D.
That internal sense that something is going wrong in your body? Don’t ignore it. Address it.
When thinking about back pain, we have long been trained by the medical system to think about disc and bone abnormalities. If we can just find the disc that’s bulging, we can fix the problem. If we can find the nerve that’s being pressed on by the disc that’s out of place, [...]
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