Human movement is a finely tuned dance of muscle contractions and other tissue actions managed by the nervous system to create joint actions that get certain movement tasks accomplished.
As we age, a focus on mobility is essential for continued health in the tissues that support and hold us together as we strive to bend our own aging curves and keep doing all the tasks/actions we need for daily living and exploring our world.
The psoas is often blamed for hip tightness, low back pain, and more. The psoas is misunderstood. Read this post to learn a few interesting tidbits about your psoas and what it actually does.
My Husband got a Cramp…. My husband got a calf cramp while riding his fancy pants new bike up a steep trail the other day. Scientifically speaking, muscle cramps are sudden, involuntary and painful contractions of muscular tissue. He made the mistake of telling me about it while we were Read more…
Welcome to your Lumbar Spine I’ve mused in some of my recent blog posts about how we might view our body as a stack of joints, the importance of variable movement and the cardinal planes, and the concept of “stiffness” (which is really about stability) in our spine. Now I’d Read more…
The Human Body is Baked From a Recipe of Integrated Ingredients When I clean my house I start in one room and within 5 minutes I’m in another room doing something else. Eventually the house sort of gets clean. When I begin to write I start with a topic Read more…