Standing and walking with ease allows the body to minimize the muscular forces working to hold us up. Walking can be an effortless event carried along by the force of gravity. As we learn to live in …
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Walking with your Head On Straight
The head is like a bowling ball on top of the spine. The average head weighs 8-12 pounds. If it is balanced directly on top of the spine and evenly over the shoulders its weight …
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Three Rules Of Thumb
1- THE BODY IS A MACHINE Just like a car your body is designed to work in a specific fashion. Nothing in the body works in isolation—every part has an explicit function meant to work …
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The Spine Lengthens In Two Directions
As your spine goes you go. This is one of my favorite phrases and sums up our prospects for aging in six words. Energetically, life revolves around the spine. Our nervous system is the body’s …
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Rice Bucket Exercises For Wrist and Hand Therapy
Rice bucket exercises for wrist and hand therapy are my latest favorite thing. Wrist and hand exercises for rehab tend to be fairly generic, which isn’t a problem per se; ubiquitous exercises often work if …
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The Skeletal System: Our Bones Hold Us Up
The human body can be broken down into any number of systems that all work together to make it run. In terms of movement we are going to look at three of these systems; the …
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Birth of the Kegels
In the early 1940’s Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, who specialized in the disorders of women, made an interesting discovery …
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The Arches of the Pelvis
An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight. When you have two pillars that fall towards each other and in the middle of those two pillars falls a …
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Six Pack Abs, or Why Hard Muscle is Bad
The cultural arena of our body is a fascinating one. We have so many compensatory patterns due to the way we look and feel. We tuck our pelvis because we think our butt is too …
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