Health Through Posture
There are 3 keys to keeping your body balanced, strong and pain free while working/staying at home – variety, movement and the structural alignment of your body (posture). Key #1 – Variety The image above shows you an ‘ideal’ home workstation setup. The key pointers are: Screen approximately at eye level Shoulders relaxed External keyboard…
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In the video below I show you one of the best exercises I know to help improve your posture. It can help if you’re in pain or if you’re unhappy with how you look. I’ve given this to Olympic athletes, as well as clients who are struggling to walk. What we’re doing here is using…
read more This video is taken from the Health Though Posture Video Course. I talk about what I think having good posture really means, some common myths about posture correction, how our bodies moves out of alignment, and perhaps most importantly, how you can improve your posture. You can get the next 3 videos of the course…
read more The number one symptom that people who come to see me have is lower back pain. I read a statistic recently in a newspaper that it was the leading cause of disability in the world. I’ve had clients where it is a mild annoyance, to clients where it is ruining their lives. Why is lower…
read more The hip is a so-called ball and socket joint – the ball being the head of your femur (thigh bone), and the socket being a spherical cup like depression in the side of your pelvis. The ball fits snuggly into the socket, and is surrounded and stabilised by strong ligaments and large muscles. It’s a…
read more A while back I read a statistic somewhere stating that a quarter of forty five year olds in the UK have knee pain, and that for a quarter of these people it is debilitating. I didn’t check the sourcing of the statistic, but if it’s anywhere near true then it’s pretty shocking. Why is chronic…
read more One of the reasons why I do what I do now is because I lived with chronic pain in my elbows, forearms, wrists and hands for over seven years. Looking back, I think the advice and treatment I received from medical practitioners was unhelpful and ineffective. Chronic problems with these parts of the body tend…
read more Your feet are the foundation of your body. They support all of your weight and allow you to walk, skip, jump, run and tiptoe. To fulfil this role, they have an intricate and ingenuous design, housing a quarter of all the bones in your body, with sixty six joints, two hundred and fourteen ligaments and…
read more In this video you can see a short talk I gave to the London YES Group in 2015. We only had fifteen minutes in total so I started off with a very quick and somewhat oversimplified introduction into what having good posture means, some ways to feel how in or out of balance your body…
read more I think there is a general perception that if some area of your body feels tight, then you should simply just stretch it out. I try to educate my clients that in some cases this might a good idea, but in others it definitely wouldn’t be, and that the key question to ask is “why…
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