Hi, Today was a different Memorial Day for me, this past year a young man that I’ve known since he was born was killed in Afghanistan. Major Thomas Kennedy left behind a wife, two babies, his parents, and many friends. Tommy was a graduate of West Point and that entire community mourned with a series […]
Hi, I wanted to post a message about the sprained ankle because I met a woman this weekend who has been suffering from a sprained ankle since January. With that idea in mind I decided to search all of my previous messages because I knew I’d written about sprained ankle in the past. I found
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It’s been an interesting month on the road so far. I left Florida on May 4th, drove to Charleston, SC for a meeting, then Chapel Hill, NC to teach a clinic to massage therapists. Next it was New York to teach a clinic and to work with some of my old clients that I used
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I had planned on talking to you today about a woman I worked with this week. She has been suffering from a laundry-list of aches and pains that were all being tagged as a part of a condition she had in the past (it’s now in recession). The doctors said that her pain could only
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Hi Everyone, I’ve been so excited to tell everyone about TriggerPoint Yoga, and now that we have our new FB page, I can announce it. TriggerPoint Yoga is a collaboration between what I teach – self-treatment for trigger points that cause pain and limit range-of-motion, and yoga. There’s too much to explain to put it
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Headaches are among the most debilitating pains suffered by people worldwide – yet too often the cause of the headache goes undiagnosed. Today I want to talk about a small muscle called levator scapulae. The levator scapulae has the nickname “shrug muscle” because when it contracts you lift your shoulders up and shrug. Think of how
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I’ve written many articles that have been published in various magazines and also online. Today I was going through them, updating bio’s and getting them organized so I can submit them to the ezine directories, and I found this article. I think it’s helpful enough that even though it’s longer than I normally post, I
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Baseball season is in full-swing and since my son and his family lives in Cooperstown, NY, needless to say I’m surrounded by baseball talk and baseball fans. I love it! I was reading an excellent baseball blog that I recommend to anyone who loves the sport. There’s been a lot of talk about shoulder injuries for both
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Yesterday I took a train from Ft Myers to NY – what a journey! I enjoyed it because I was coming up to NY for my granddaughter’s graduation (wouldn’t miss it if I had to WALK to get here!!) and I had a ton of work to do – what a perfect place to work…no
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I’ve spoken a lot of times about the muscles that cause low back pain when a person sits for long periods of time. Today I’d like to put a new twist on that topic – feeling low back pain when standing for long periods of time. It’s actually coming from the same muscles, but for a different
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