Work Smarter Not Harder in the Shoulder…Use Yoga If you practice yoga or know much about it, you’ll have seen the yoga pose “chaturanga dandasana” or four limbed staff pose. You will also know it is not an easy pose to do. It requires significant global strength and motor control (aka finesse and body awareness). What…
Go Non-GMO It takes quite a bit of homework to be able to feed my family of five (all of them hungry boys, mind you) a non-GMO, organic diet. I’ve been doing it for about 10 years now. It is difficult, but not impossible. We do it on a reasonable budget, and the kids love…
Music is Powerful Medicine Parents’ Singing to Fetus and Newborn Enhances Their Well-being, Parent-Infant Attachment, & Soothability: Part One I’ve said for many years now that I am a mother’s biggest fan. Birth and mothering are not just dear to my heart – they determine the future of our world. I am a mother of…
Yoga as Integrative Medicine: Why Health Care Pros Should Offer It In a 2002 study of people with chronic heart disease, more than 80% of patients used integrative medicine. (1) Patients cited numerous benefits to the use of integrative medicine, including maintaining better health and sleep, boosting self-esteem, hope, and peaceful mind, and reducing anxiety,…
The Minimalist Physical Therapist: Using Yoga as Medicine? A minimalist pares away all unnecessary things “in order to expose the essence or identity of a subject.” Twelve years ago I decided to try that path. I had been raised with a “Depression Era” ethic, that is, collect and keep everything you can, because you “just never know what…
Cesarean Delivery and Fetal Monitoring: Help or Hurt? Fetal monitoring is used more than any other obstetrical intervention, reported to be used in more than 85% of hospitals in 2010 (ACOG Practice Bulletin 132). However, despite its high rate of use, fetal monitoring has not been proven effective in decreasing infant or maternal mortality or…
Lady Gaga’s Hip Labral Tear: Are You At Risk for One? Lady Gaga’s tour operators, Live Nation, announced February 14, 2013 that she would be cancelling the remainder of her tour due to a hip injury. You may not know one single song that Lady Gaga sings (I don’t), so why, you are thinking, should I…
Americans Die Younger: US Ranks Low in World Health Report A report published last month by the Institute of Medicine entitled, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, was released on January 9, 2013. CNN originally covered the Institute’s release of the report, and now the nutrition industry is chiming in, “The first obvious issue…
Physical Therapy for Back Pain Improves Chances for Permanent Relief Apparently Dr. Oz may not know exactly what physical therapy is – even though it is good that he sought it out when discussing “cutting edge solutions for back pain” on a recent segment. The segment caught the attention of the American Physical Therapy Association,…
Anti-Cancer 101: Avoid Pesticides Here’s How: Here are some other helpful links for your family’s health: Avoiding Cancer & Chronic Disease Clean Food Resources – If buying organic is expensive where you live, then make sure you at least follow the Dirty Dozen List, buy organic milk and yogurt, and avoid GMO’s (namely wheat, corn,…
Self-Help Tip of the Week: That which remains when there is no more grasping, is the Self. ~ Panchardasi Heeding this proverb, or mantra, or whatever you want to call it, is a daily challenge for me. And on the day this picture was taken, in the dimming of the day on a Virginia mountainside…
Read The Role of Nutrition and Exercise in Longevity, full post, of my latest article on Yang-Sheng magazine. Read Yang-Sheng magazine on full screen flip book No one wants to hear the phrase “you are aging prematurely.” However, that is exactly what is happening when you suffer from chronic disease. The phrase “anti-inflammatory diet” is a huge buzzword now in…