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Sit Ups and Your Low Back

Do you remember gym class when you partnered up with someone who held your feet down while you cranked out as many sit ups as you could in one minute? Those were the days. (The days without knowledge...

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Get Good Posture

Say the word “posture” and most people act like an alarm just went off. You’ve reminded them to get good posture as though it were an item on their to-do list. Go to the bank, pick up the take-out, get...

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How to Straighten Posture and Your Spine

How to straighten posture or your spine may depend on where you start. Is your posture slumped or arched?

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Contracture and Posture – A Contracture is Not A Muscle Spasm

A contracture is not the same as a muscle contraction. Both a muscle contraction and a contracture involve muscle, but a contracture also involves other soft tissue. A contracture is also a different...

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2 Types of Leg Length Differences

Posture can be greatly affected by a leg length difference. Whether your leg length discrepancy is caused by an actual leg length difference or a functional leg length difference, you may find yourself...

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Posture How To – How To Release Pain and Tension

A posture how to on releasing the pain of unnecessary muscle tension. This posture how to is an 11 minute audio cast.

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Posture Confidence Review – A Review of the Posture Confidence Program

Here is a review of the Posture Confidence program.

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Posture Monday – Restore Your Shoulder and Neck Posture To A Pain Free State

Posture Monday – Restore Pain Free Shoulder and Neck Posture With the Tips Of Your Fingers This month, Posture Monday focuses on the neck, and today, a simple way to restore alignment to the neck and...

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The Pelvic Tilt Exercise – An Opportunity for Healing

When I watch well meaning exercisers yank themselves from place to place, yelling drill sergeant motivational statements (like “get off your lazy duff”) at themselves, and even calling themselves dirty...

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Runner’s Knee: Dealing with Patellofemoral Pain

This blog post is courtesy of Dr. Peter Borden, Orthopedic Surgeon at Sports and Spine Orthopedics in Torrance and El Segundo, California. Everyone knows that running puts a pounding on your knees. The...

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Feet – Tools for Beautiful Posture

  Standing, walking and/or running well is much about feet – those smallish structures that support you from under. To this end, I’d like to talk about how feet relate to your whole body – and offer...

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Carpal Tunnel Exercises – Stretch Your Wrists, Forearms and Hands

Because the act of keyboarding involves a lot of finger and wrist flexion, it tends to exert a tightening effect on muscles on the palm (inner) side. For this reason, I like to stretch the palm-side...

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Relieve Neck & Shoulder Pain w/ Awareness Pt. 1

A Movement Experience for Shoulders and Neck “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking” Real-Time Mini Session (5m44sec) Let Your Fingers Do the Walking Sitting at the computer and/or living with poor posture...

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Patterns – How Muscle Imbalance can make you an Accident Waiting to Happen

Muscle pain is quite often caused by muscle imbalance – i.e. strength and/or flexibility differences between muscle groups that surround, protect and move your joints. Not only can muscle imbalance...

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Give your Shoulder Blades a Squeeze

For many people, squeezing the shoulder blades together in back results in a wonderful release of tension in the front as well as new found posture support for the upper body. Don’t Be a Hunchback This...

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Relieve Neck & Shoulder Pain w/ Awareness Pt. 2 (Instructions)

Neck and Shoulders Movement Experience Instructions “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking” Relieving neck and shoulder pain with awareness is a gentle, refreshing way to interrupt the cycle of...

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Correct Your Forward Head Posture

Hunchback posture – aka postural kyphosis – is often accompanied by another posture issue called forward head.  What happens is that hunchback drops your line of site downward;  this is because the...

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Quickie Ab Pull In Webinar

Here’s a quickie (about 15 minutes) webinar on a key area for low back pain – your lower abs. It’s the first in a free series of 3. Check it out! Here’s a quickie (about 15 minutes) webinar on a key...

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