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In today’s world, we do a lot of sitting. We sit down to eat. We sit in the car to get to work. We sit when we get to work. Then we sit back in the car so we can get back home to sit down to dinner. After that long day of sitting, we [...]
Shoulder pain and instability used to be a regular part of my life. Not anymore — thanks to Rolfing and Posture Alignment Therapy.
This is important for you and those you care about.
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A lot of people ask me, “Can I really change my posture?” And the answer is an unequivocal yes. Your posture shows us what your muscles are doing. Your muscles are positioning the bones in specific pattern. If you can change the muscle actions, you can change the bone patterns. That’s as complex as posture [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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