Are your current breathing habits helping you stay healthy, or potentially causing back pain, shoulder pain or neck pain? Is your current breath pattern helping improve your posture with every breath you take? Breathing is something we take for granted. It happens...
Back Pain
Foot Fitness Exercise: Flexing the Ankle for an Effective Calf Stretch
Today’s foot fitness tip is especially important for runners, walkers. It also can benefit people with lower back issues. I'm going to share my "secrets for success" in improving leg, ankle, and foot flexibility with an easy and effective calf stretch. Whether...
Scoliosis: Brace, Fuse, or Exercise?
There is controversy over the use of braces to correct excessive curvature of the spine (scoliosis) in teenagers because research has failed to prove that they work. “Bracing is regarded as effective by some and as useless by others.” According to Stefano Negrini, MD...
Reduce Back Pain: The Benefits of Breathing as Taught in Pilates
Back Pain is something that affects way too many people these days! According to the American Chiropractic Association, back pain is the fifth most common reason for all physician visits in the US, and the most frequent cause of activity limitation in people younger...
Pilates Exercise Programs for Chronic Back and Neck Pain
Considering the large number of clients I've seen with chronic back and neck pain, and the great results they've had from participating in Pilates programs with me, I strongly agree with the findings from this recent research article I read in SOAP notes from PT...