What do you think of when you think of traction?  The first thing that immediately pops in my head is someone lying in a hospital bed with their legs being held up in the air in traction.  Traction can be used in a variety of medical conditions usually to take pressure off a joint or […]

Do you ever look at a picture of yourself and think, “Wow, my posture is horrible!”  Or maybe…my posture is starting to look like that of my grandmothers?   Over time if we do nothing about a rounded, hunched posture…our body will continue to move into that posture.  Unfortunately that posture leaves our body feeling stuck, […]

Frequent breaks in sedentary activity may explain lower health risk related to waist circumference, body mass index (BMI), triglyceride levels, and 2-hour plasma glucose levels.  As you may know, those risk factors, along with triglyceride and HDL levels, define the metabolic syndrome which dramatically increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and probably Alzheimer’s […]