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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 [...]
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?”
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What does Jenga have to do with posture and pain? Find out what lessons a recreational game can teach you.
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.
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David was the type of guy who loved lifting weights, riding his motorcycle, and watching Chargers games. But recurrent severe back pain kept him from doing the things he loved. About four times a year, he’d be in severe pain, unable to even walk properly. At 38, he wasn’t happy with that.
After less than two months since starting his Egoscue exercise program, he’s back doing the things he loves.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Find out why making a fake knee can be so hard, and why it’s practically impossible to make one as good as a biological one.
Silly pictures from the opening of Upright Health’s new location in San Diego are up! You can head to Lumiere Imagery’s facebook page and check out the Silly Photos album to see them all! Sadly, there aren’t any pictures of Sebastian‘s magic show…
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BECOME A FAN OF GOOD POSTURE
