It seems wise to prepare for the season ahead. That may mean financially preparing for your high schooler’s potential college time, gradually cleaning up your office for your approaching retirement, stacking your wood, and making other preparations for the Winter season in a few months. We can do the same for our skin. Though it’s […]
As I’m sitting on the back deck this sunny Spring morning, it’s warm with a slight breeze, the birds are chirping, and I’m sipping on a comforting cup of coffee; it is such a relaxing and blissful feeling. I feel grateful to have the experience of the moment where nothing else has my attention but
There are many ways to breathe and a myriad of ways the breath can be focused and used during: meditation, yoga, martial arts, healing arts, performing arts, sports, exercise, and so on. This article is not about how to use your breath. It is more about the biomechanics underlying each breath that can either set
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I can remember feeling so grown up sitting in the sauna with my grandfather, somehow displaying my strength because I was sweating generously and remaining calm. We would rinse off after maybe twenty minutes and then take a short swim in the cool water of the adjacent pool in their Florida condominium where my grandparents
Many call Structural Integration “the missing link” between Physical Therapy and Chiropractic. Where Chiropractors work on the bones and PTs work on strengthening muscles, Structural Integrators work on lengthening fascia. Dr. Ida P. Rolf, a biochemist at the time, knew fascia was that missing link and, in the 1940s, created what she called “Structural Integration,”
Have you noticed recently that you feel better when it’s a clear, sunny day? I’m not necessarily referring to your back pain going away when the clouds move (though this may also happen) but rather your mood being lighter and feeling happier in general. In my time as a practitioner, I’ve heard this many times
As I’m writing this, we’re having a steady snowfall that has already required one round of shoveling my driveway. I have a snowblower but it happens to be a Sunday and there’s no rush to clear the snow. I’ve also made a resolution to myself to take any opportunity to put the attention into my
I remember the stereotypical long, white beard of the old diagnostician in the traditional Chinese medical hospital in Shenyang, China where I was living in 1998. At that time, and likely still today, there were hospitals in China that only offered Traditional Chinese Medicine, those that offered only Western Medicine, and those that offered both.
I recently had the honor of joining a panel discussion on Resilience Radio, a local podcast hosted by Irvin Eisenberg, OT. The theme that guided the conversation was “Bouncing Back from Calamity.” Two other wonderful practitioners were part of this, giving the perspectives of herbal medicine, naturopathic medicine, and Chinese medicine. There were a few
The guidelines for hypertension, or high blood pressure, changed a few years ago. This was the first comprehensive set of new guidelines since 2003, lowering the definition of high blood pressure and accounting for nearly half of the U.S. adult population. This change has affected younger people, tripling the diagnosis for men under the age