Osteoarthritis today is not only occurring in older people. There is a major increase of individuals between the age of 40 and 55 and it is amazing how many more people are suffering from osteoarthritis these days. When it gets severe, it’s a total joint failure. One in two Americans and two in three obese people will likely get Knee osteoarthritis, and the knees seem to be the leading joint where OA is found. 1 in 4 Americans or about 25 percent of the population will develop Hip OA, and it’s very costly. Read More
Pilates
The Influence Of Imagery On Neurobiology is Powerful
A lot of the research in motor imagery supports that if you rehearse the movement before you do it, afterward it’s better. That is very interesting, but what about going further back even into the emotional aspect? What about working with the limbic system and how it affects all that movement and working directly at the endocrine and cellular level and doing imagery there. So instead of just looking at the results and then trying to find explanations, go directly into the tissue with imagery and see if that’s measurable. No one has ever done that, why not? Read More
Do You Really Understand Pelvic Floor Health?
Coming from where he (Kegel) identified squeezing these muscles, which led to improvement in stress urinary incontinence, we’re now fifty-plus years later still talking about Kegels. So I really call them a pelvic floor muscle exercise, because there are a lot more dynamics to it. Read More
Why “Exercises To Fix Back Pain” is a Headline to Avoid
Stop chasing the “magic exercises” and “magic recipe” of what to do with your clients who experience low back pain – it does not exist. One exercise can have a beneficial outcome for one person and a negative outcome for another. Read More
The Best Teachers Teach in the Moment
How would you describe your presence in the Pilates Studio? Cheerful, affectionate, grounded, powerful, indulgent? I always find it amazing that two Pilates teachers can lead the same exercise, using similar cues, yet one of them leaves you feeling great and the other falls flat. This is the nuance that presence brings to a session.Read More
The Most Important Part Of Running? It’s Way More Than Shoes!
At first, research was focused on biomechanics; kinetics, and kinematics, then shoes, speed, and cadence. Now we realize “we are human”… What about the psychological aspects like motivation, the runner’s passion, sleep habits, and nutrition.Read More
