Valentine’s Day isn’t just about chocolate hearts and candy; it’s also an opportunity to show some love to your spine! Here are four simple yet effective ways to celebrate and care for your spine this February: Posture Pampering: Practice good posture by sitting and standing with your shoulders back and aligned with your ears. Avoid slouching […]
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I’ve always found it remarkable how common it is for people to behave as if gravity is the enemy, and yet we’re entirely evolved to interact with it as part of the way we function, no less so than with the air we breathe. Russian scientist and academic P. Anokhin phrased it thus: “The most
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High Heels and Health How high heels affect you and your health We are often more concerned with fashion rather than function. We do not take into account the toll routinely wearing high heels will take on our body. The simple process of getting dressed in the morning has the potential to create significant musculoskeletal
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How I Beat Back Pain in 7 Days So first up, happy New Year … and what an embarrassing start to it for an Alexander Technique teacher it has been … I put my lower back out larking about with a friend’s son on New Years Eve! He was much heavier than I realised and
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Poise, Not Posture – Don’t Try To Stand Up Straight! We’re being inundated with articles these days on the benefits of correct posture and how to achieve it, but nothing makes you tense up more than trying to adopt a “correct” posture and trying to be “right”. Throw away the idea of an idealised posture
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Myths, by their very nature, are very hard to dispel once they’ve taken hold. Despite the core stability myth being exposed nearly ten years ago, and journalist Peta Bee writing about it in The Times in 2010, from conversations I have with people I’d say its hold is as strong as ever. The myth is that
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Stand on your bottom, what?! The truth about sitting Look at how the bottom of the spine joins with the pelvis. What changes to that relationship when the weight bearing changes from going through your hips, and ultimately to the ground via your feet, to going through your sit bones into your chair? Not much! You’ll notice that
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