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Hi Everyone, I’m happy to say that I met with Mike Young, the Director of Human Performance Consulting in Cary, NC. We are going to be working together to help the athletes who are members of HPC .  I’ll also be setting up my therapy office at the gym so I hope you’ll be able to come […]

Trigger finger is caused by the same muscles as those involved in the tingling of carpal tunnel syndrome. I’ve started to do some work with high-level athletes and yesterday I was working with a man who had “clicking” in his pointer and middle fingers.  The man is a javelin thrower which uses all of the

Today I had the pleasure of working with some amazing Track and Field athletes, some of them have already been to the Olympics, some are training to go to the Olympic trials, and many of them are training to go to the World Games in Korea.  It was incredible for me to be helping them

I monitor several different forums on the internet, all relating to repetitive strain injuries.  Today the message that was posted is one I want to share with you since so many people are using the computer mouse for hours a day. It’s so important to learn how repetitive strain injuries to muscles are causing pain

As you know from earlier posts, I’m working to get my body into a better physical place.  I finally decided that it will definitely help to have a coach to give me some encouragement and direction. Next thing I know, I’m doing some intro massage at the local running store, Fleet Feet in Carrboro, NC, and

On Friday I received an email from a friend, The message was from a website that he reads and it had a lovely reminder of the importance of touch in our lives.  I wanted to share it with you: Healing Our BodiesTouch It’s important to not forget about the power of the human touch in our lives.

This Sunday I went to the cyclocross race at Lion’s Park in Raleigh, it was fun and also very interesting.  I was doing free introduction massages to show the cyclists my style of work and let them know that I’m working here in the Triangle area of NC. I took a walk from where I had my

While working with cyclists at the cyclocross race in Raleigh on Sunday, just about every cyclist complained of neck pain.  It’s a very common cycling injury because of the position of your head and neck while cycling. If you stand up straight, put your fingertips on the back of your neck, next to your spine,

Are you a cyclist?  If so, the odds are extremely high that you have low back pain because of the aerodynamic position you assume for hours at a time. Cycling in the aerodynamic position brings the two ends of your iliopsoas muscle (actually it’s two muscles, the psoas and the iliacus) very close together. In

Last week I worked with a lady who is an avid runner…until her hip started to hurt so much that she couldn’t run at all, in fact she could barely walk! After talking to her for awhile she realized that she always runs the same route every morning. She runs facing the traffic so her