Did you know whether it is a new injury, or a long history of chronic pain, that both are often accompanied by what is known as the pain-spasm-pain cycle. The word spasm here can be a bit misleading. Sometimes it is a true severe muscle spasm, however mostly pain is associated with an increase in […]
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Let’s talk about why you may have pain in your body (like back pain, or neck pain, knee pain, hip or shoulder pain) and what you can do to change it. One of the primary reasons we have pain is that we are like a computer running a program that we did not consciously choose. […]
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Is Your Posture Hurting You or Helping you? The “Venice Concierge PT Posture Exercise” is an Alignment Based Approach to Reducing Pain. Each one of us has a unique way in which we hold ourselves up against gravity while sitting, standing, and walking. Like John Wayne, some of us are distinguished by our way of […]
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An Alignment Based Approach to Reducing Pain. Most of you have been told at one time in your life to, “Stand up straight” have you not? Or perhaps you have had the thought that your posture is not so good, and you had an intention to correct it, yet didn’t quite follow through. Perhaps your […]
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As we spring ahead into daylight savings, into long hours of sunlight and warmer weather, many people also plan to move ahead into action. Spring is the season of rebirth and awakening. It is also the time for many to follow through with New Year’s resolutions of exercise, losing weight, improving health and quality of […]
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Relief for Women with Headaches There are different types of headaches women (and some men) suffer from tension headaches, cluster headaches, migraines, rebound headaches, and temporal arthritis to name the major categories. The debate on headache etiology as well as their drug treatments is as diverse as the categories. However, just because the verdict remains […]
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Relief from the “Back Pain” of Motherhood Motherhood and back or neck pain seem to go hand in hand. Ever wonder why? Well, there are structural and hormonal influences contributing to the infamous back pain, and there are also remedies for them. How it begins: During pregnancy, the expanding uterus elongated and essentially rendered the […]
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What is Pilates? The more appropriate question is who was Pilates: Joseph H. Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. His method was created in the early 1900s, he originally called his system ‘Contrology.’ Pilates believed that his system of exercise would lead to a state of ‘optimal health and wellness. He brought ‘Contrology’ to […]
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