Centerworks Blog
Dr. Oz: Helpful Hints to Pick the Best Shoes for Your Feet
It’s great to see that even Dr. Oz is helping to educate people about the benefits of wearing the right shoes to keep your feet healthy. Check out this Dr. Oz show video to see what he has to say about determining your arch type – normal, flat, or high, and what the...
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...
Practice Better Breathing Habits to Help Develop Improved Core Strength with Length (and Other Great Health Benefits)
Breathing well is the first step in developing strength with length. If you have a hard time maintaining the length of your spine when you’re standing still, how the heck are you going to make it happen when you’re bending forwards, backwards, sideways, and twisting?...
Patella Exercise to Avoid Locked Knees and Reduce Knee Pain
If you’re one of those folks who has a tendency to lock your knees, and may occasionally be bothered with knee pain… Here’s a video with a quick and easy exercise you can practice just about anywhere to help strengthen the muscles around the knee joint, become more...
iWalk – Actively Powered Foot and Ankle for Amputees
It’s amazing what technology is able to do and humans are able to create to help improve the lives of others! The iWalk prosthetics company has created the worlds’ first actively powered foot and ankle! Their PowerFoot One is designed to give amputees an ease of...
4 Excellent Ways to Strengthen Your Ankles and Avoid Injury
Are you interested in staying healthy and injury-free? Foot and Ankle strength, flexibility, and alignment is critical! Our ankles assist with balance, help us run faster, and jump higher. One missed step off a curb, or quick turn on the basketball court, soccer...
Tips for Using Your Bucket List: Be Happy, Reduce Stress, & Enjoy Life!
Can you think of all the times in your life that you’ve said, “Oh, I really want to try that!” or “I hope someday that I get to do __________.” But then life get’s busy, you’re schedule is home-to-work, work-to-home, and all of the things you want to see, or do,...
Health, The Creative Spirit, and Art Appreciation: Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation
There are so many things that contribute to the health of our bodies, communities, and countries. The mind, body, spirit connection is something that is accessible to us all if we’re open to the sharing information from the Universal source, and being aware of the...
Through the Eyes of a Yogi: Connect and Discover Mind-Body, and Spirit
A good friend recommended the book Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda to me a while ago, and I’ve been slowly working my way through it! It is an excellent read for anyone interested in a life story filled with exceptional information about the...
The Benefits of Drinking Water, Hydration, and Health
I’ve always followed the mantra of “drink only when you’re thirsty.” And funny thing…I am rarely actually thirsty! So in the past, I’ve consumed very little water throughout the day. It’s an actual effort to take the time and remember to drink. There are two sides...