Category: Structural balance is essential for health!
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5 easy ways to prevent back pain and improve your posture
Do you need to be worried about back pain? When you are young and your joints are strong, poor posture usually doesn’t cause pain or limit mobility. As you get older, however, if poor posture goes uncorrected, you begin to feel the effects on your joints. It will become more difficult to sit for long periods or…
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Why proper breathing is smart
I mean, it’s just breathing right? It’s so much more than that. What should be happening when your breathing right: Your throat neck and traps should be minimally or not involved in breathing. We want breathing to come from trunk, not your face. If you are using accessory muscles to breathe, they’re not being used…
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What you don’t know about clenching and grinding your teeth
The habit of grinding, gnashing, grating, or clenching the teeth is called bruxism, and millions of adults and children are affected by this condition. I know bruxism well, providing therapy to alleviate and normalize the muscles of the jaw for my clients and with my own personal experience with it. Bruxism can occur as a response to…
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What happens when you have a hormonal imbalance?
3 chief culprits of female hormone issues according to Dr. Daniel Kalish: EMOTIONAL STRESS (such as death, divorce, etc within a year or two of loss), DIETARY STRESS (sugar, excess carbs, food sensitivities, eating too much (even healthy foods)), stress from PAIN OR INFLAMMATION (hidden inflammation, chronic infections in gut, which causes them to be…
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Four ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day, (and they’re not what you think).
It’s February! We made it through the holidays just to get inundated with notions of chocolate, flowers, bling, and extravagant weekends in wine country to ‘reconnect with the one you love’. But what if we pass on the chocolate and Ziggy cards and approach the day (or the whole month!) with a focus on connecting…
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How c-section scars interfere with the body’s messaging system
You have done everything right but you may be wondering why you still feel disconnected to parts of your body weeks after recovery time from your surgical incision or worse you are starting to have pain that keeps coming back. C-Section scars can interfere with the body’s messaging system. Many women who have had a c-section will…
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Be mindful of how your body feels and here is why
Good posture is essential for preventing back and neck pain, but it’s not always easy to tell if you’re keeping everything in alignment. Be mindful of how your body feels, here is a quick and easy way.
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Posture and chronic low back tension, soreness and pain
Is this statement true for you? My back is killing me and nothing I do helps. Proper bio-mechanics demand a lot of things, one of which is a person’s ability to maintain proper muscular length-tension relationships. As is the case with any joint, a postural abnormality and pain can develop when a muscle is tight while…
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Practical and Natural ways to improve circulation
Why you don’t want to ignore the circulatory system. A major player in maintaining your health. It circulates your blood and lymph through out your body it consists of your HEART, blood vessels, blood, lymph, lymphatic vessels and glands which serves all the cells of the body. It’s main role is transporting oxygen and nutrients to the cells of…
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Self healing tip to recover from sciatica pain
You don’t always need to reach for pills when feeling pain. If you’re in pain, and ibuprofen just won’t cut it. Anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, don’t agree with your stomach, and you’re wary of stronger meds. It’s fortunate, you have alternatives and natural ones. You can take back control of your body and recover from sciatica…