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Today I received an email from a woman named Laree Draper. Several weeks ago I heard fromLaree, telling me that she had read one of my articles and wanted permission to put it into her blog. After looking at her blog to make sure I would be happy to have my name on her site, […]

Pain in the posterior knee was a topic today while I was answering my forum.  As I was answering the post, I realized that most people don’t understand how muscle memory will cause a muscle to stay contracted even when we want to stretch it, so I want to explain it here. Muscle memory is a

Today I spoke to a woman who was having a strange feeling in her body — not pain, and not in her organs, but a feeling she couldn’t explain in her buttocks, like she was sitting on a rolled up towel. She had all of the tests that the doctors could imagine, and nothing was

I was talking to a man today and he was telling me that he’s had pain in the tip of his finger for years. He’s seen doctors who tell him nothing is wrong, he’s had x-rays and nothing showed up there, and he was starting to think he was crazy. Pain that doesn’t come from

Several of my grandchildren are serious athletes, even though they are still young teenagers. Soccer, the sport that my grandson Martin plays, is especially hard on young bodies. Now, I know I won’t change the entire training program for soccer, although I sure wish I knew someone who had that power! One movement, called “headers”

Several months ago I decided to move from Texas to Chapel Hill, NC, and I’ve finally gotten here. Yesterday I arrived and I’ve found the perfect place to live…surrounded by trees so the temperature is pleasant, and the sounds of the birds are all that I hear. Plus, I’m only about five miles outside of

I heard a wonderful speaker on Sunday and she gave me the idea for today’s message. So many of us are always watching out for others, helping them, doing for them, yet we ignore our own health needs and body. However, if we aren’t well and strong, we can’t be of help to anyone, and

This weekend I was at a convention for massage therapists. It was held in a college in KY, and everyone stayed at the college. It’s a wonderful college that gives scholarships to the children of the mountains who otherwise wouldn’t be able to go to college, so money is very tight and they rely on

Today I took my first Pilates class. Alexandra, the instructor, is a totally toned woman with abs that are washboard flat. I, on the other hand, have realized that my abdominal muscles are someplace between a marshmallow and putty. Something that needs to be changed immediately! Now, I knew I have been driving on a