Have you ever categorized your back pain as muscle “tightness”? Whether it’s in your legs, hips, butt or lower back the best way to describe it is this boring tightness that you can’t stretch or numbness going down one of your legs. Well, its actually really common and can be easily diagnosed if you have a […]
I have spent a lot of time on the anatomy of back pain and the foundation of treating it on a basic level. I wanted to take some time and focus on the training aspect and dial in on some potential reasons your experiencing back pain during specific movements. The information is for ANYONE looking […]
The Lewit Exercise is nothing new unless you have been nerding out on abdominal wall bracing and learning how to activate the deepest layers of your core just for the fun of it 😉 It’s actually been around for a while and is used in a lot of basic rehab situations. A good coach will instruct […]
My posterior chain was something that I never really cared for when I was younger. The only thing I really did was dead lifts but other than that I was only really worried about what I could see in the mirror…my front! I don’t really know if that was the sole reason for my back […]
So last week we talked about 4 pretty cool ways you can make some life style adjustments to free up some of that nagging back pain. Its not so much about working around your back pain but its finding out what activities you may be doing now that could be causing your back pain then […]
Over the years I have learned countless “other ways” of doing things in order to save my back. It actually took me a while to get across my head that if the movement hurts I probably shouldn’t do it. In some cases, I figured I was going to need push through the pain in order […]
So earlier in the week we talked about how stress and ager affect your back. We talked about the power of the mind and rewiring our assumptions about our pain. I also wanted to give you a stepping stone towards really understanding how to begin to treat TMS (which is the mind body connection that feeds your pain). […]
The reality of it is, there is no denying the fact that there is a psychological aspect to pain. NO, I’m not talking about mind over matter. I personally believe that if my leg gets cut off no matter if I tell myself it hurts or not that sucker is going to hurt! So simply […]
Since moving into my new house It seems I have been doing a lot of lifting, painting and just long hours on my feet when I get home. Not being able to come home and really unwind like I used to has lead to a lot of tense muscles and lack of focus on the […]
Poor posture sucks. I see people on a daily bases who walk around with some of the poorest body positions I have ever seen. I am no one to really speak though, I am in a constant state of repair when it comes to fixing what I have messed up over the past 28 years. […]
