Expert advice on how to feel better inside and out.
Remember the 80’s? I sure do. Probably because they kind of lasted until the late 90s for me (thanks to endless hand me downs and basic cable TV reruns). It was a good time filled with big hair, crazy exercise videos, magic 8 balls, Rubix cubes, and door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen. We didn’t have smartphones, we […]
HOW WE USE GENUINE CURIOSITY TO BE BETTER. Read More »
The Stats Chronic low back pain in American adults has consistently accounted for the largest number of years lived with disability in 1990 and 2010. Health expenditures for adults with spinal problems has been progressively increasing from the 1990s to 2000s and were estimated at roughly $6,000 per person with chronic low back pain in
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The rotator cuff is a confluence of 4 muscles: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis and teres minor. Despite being called the “rotator” cuff, these muscles aren’t major rotators. Their primary function is to keep the head of the humerus depressed and centered into the glenoid fossa. This isn’t to stabilize or limit motion – its to allow
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Inspired by the teachings in ‘The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion’ by Simon Marshall, PhD & Lesley Paterson I just ran the worst 10k race of my life, and I’m okay with it. I am in the process of rebuilding my athletic identity. My athletic identity is how I
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One major thing that sets humans apart from other animals and organisms on this planet is our ability to walk on two feet. We weren’t always this special. At one time, millions of years ago, we were 4-legged mammals designed for climbing and short-distance travel. Our species slowly evolved to become upright, bipedal endurance machines.
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The problem with rehabilitation is the very definition of it. To “rehabilitate” means “to restore to a former capacity.” When it comes to injury rehabilitation, this implies that we are trying to restore someone’s health or capacity to the level they were at pre-injury. However, the state of health or physical capacity pre-injury was not
The basic concept of food and why we need it is actually quite simple. Unfortunately, due to food processing and borderline criminal marketing, choosing what to eat has become confusing. We’ve lost our basic understanding of what food is, preventing us from making healthy food choices. We’ve been sold the idea of miracle diets (keto,
Redefine ‘Food’ as ‘Fuel’. Read More »
Work life balance is a popular term used for the idea that we need to find time for both work and other aspects of life. Despite our intelligence and our best intentions, we struggle to identify the things that actually matter. We’re always striving for balance, but there never seems to be enough time. Are
How to Find Balance by Losing Time. Read More »
If you’ve been around “older” people, you’ve likely heard things like “getting old sucks” or “it’s just part of being old” when they discuss their aches and pains. As living organisms, we naturally degrade over time – we grow old, our skin loses elasticity, our muscles degrade, our joints wear down, etc. We call this
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THE PROBLEM WITH DAILY ROUTINES We’ve all been sold the benefits of a routine – A sequence of actions regularly followed, a fixed program that is supposed to help us achieve more and stress less. There is only one problem… Routines are boring, and rigid and take all the fun out of living, right? Wrong! A
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