Piriformis syndrome affects the sciatic nerve creating pain that centers in the butt and often runs down the affected leg. When the piriformis muscle, which connects from outside of the femur (leg) bone to the …
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Psoas Major and Rectus Abdominis
The psoas major and the rectus abdominis muscles have an important relationship inside the body even though they don’t literally work together. Muscles relate to each other in many different ways. Sometimes they work in opposition—for …
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Tight Lower Back Muscles
Everyone I look at whether at work, or on the street, seems to be leaning backwards when they stand and walk. If someone leans backwards all the time they are going to have tight lower …
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Aging Gracefully: Fitter First Bongo Board
First things first, where are my stylists and who lets me make these videos with my shirt half tucked in and out? Considering that I teach people to exercise, one would think that I would …
Continue ReadingSunday Morning Music: Thurston Moore
I don’t feel particularly jaded but I no longer have life changing eureka moments that occurred fairly often in my younger days. I remember art exhibits that blew the top off of my young head …
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Stooped Posture: Leaning Backwards Though Life
Every once in a while I sit at a red light and see an elderly person crossing the street with extremely stooped posture like the woman in the photo. Ending up this way is a …
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Good Posture: Stop Taking Your Shoulders Back
Taking Your Shoulders Up and Back is a Terrible Instruction The universal instruction to “take your shoulders back” is one of great disservice to mankind on a long list of disservices. The instruction is most …
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Symmetry and Asymmetry
I love summer reading—mysteries and thrillers and anything but yoga and anatomy books that bore me to death. And once in a while you read something that teaches you while it thrills you. Such is …
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The Happy Homunculus: I Am Not This Body
I Am Not This Body Leave it to a ten year old girl to walk up to me and say, “What’s the matter with your eye? It keeps closing when you talk.” I tell her …
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