Here’s the answer to an age-old question
How did my posture get this way?! When people come to Upright Health, they know (or strongly suspect) that their posture is a part of the pain equation. They want to try to fix the posture and nix the pain, and the question that they need answered is “how did my posture get this way?”
Trust yourself
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.
Burn your pain as fuel
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~Kenji Miyazawa I came across this quote last week and found it particularly poignant. When I was in the worst throes of pain, I used to feel hopeless and helpless. There seemed to be nothing that could be done. The doctor’s orders were
Shoulder pain can make it tough to get dressed
Back in 2003 or 2004, I developed a fun, somewhat inconvenient way to put on and take off t-shirts. I would bend at the waist and use my left arm and the assistance of gravity to wiggle my head in or out of the shirt while guiding my dangling right arm through the sleeve. You
Injected relief is a dose of long-term damage
In pain in San Diego and considering a cortisone shot? You should seriously reconsider that option.
Can your body really change?
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
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
Heel pain? What are your shoulders doing?
Everything is connected — in your personal life, in business, in your body. I have a client who can tell you personally just how much those connections matter. We’ll call him “Mr. Twister.” Mr. Twister had pain in his feet that wasn’t caused by anything going on anywhere near his feet. Take a look at
The diction of doom
The way the medical world views pain dooms its victims to failure. What’s shocking is that it stems from a lack of linguistic precision. Think about this example. Your friend is lying in bed, sweating and coughing and complaining of congestion. His temperature is 103 degrees. He feels dizzy and weak and occasionally cold. You
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
