My-Muscle
Muscular Skeletal Alignment/Posture Alignment
Headaches, neck stiffness, low back pain, hips hurt. Yatta, yatta. “You are getting older” we are told. I loved it when older my sister-in-law told me that she started to fall apart after her 40th birthday. Great! I was rounding that already with 3 whiplashes, headaches, my left hand pinky and ring finger where in …
Recently at Shift Fitness and Massage we added in a new piece of equipment. It is a vertical vibration plate. Affectionally called “Vibie” by one scoliosis client. Unlike the ones you see on the television and facebook ads that vibrates side to side, this sends the vibration from your feet upwards. The vertical vibration plate …
Hip pain is real pain. It can be part of our lower back or nerve caught in between hip bone and sacrum. Hip pain can be sharp, tingly, numbness, constant, intermittent, give trouble walking, sitting, sit to stand, stand to sit, sleep, knees can hurt and even feet. I have even seen cases of plantar …
Suffering from chronic back pain myself as a youth was no fun and it only got worse as I got older. It has only been in the last 10 years of education and training in massage, personal training and postural distortion patterns that I have realized how to better strengthen and maintain a healthier body …
TMJ disorder and Headaches Painful Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder and regular headaches can be affecting 35 million Americans in their home and professional life. Are you one of them? Here are some of the things my clients came in experiencing While there is dentistry that can help with TMJ problems there may be a greater …
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Sleep is essential to being healthy. According to Dr. Daniel Amen, Psychiatrist and Brain Dysfunction Specialist and author of Change Your Brain and Change Your Life and many others, lists Sleep as one of the ten components to “Enhance Brain Health”. Adults need 7 or more hours, teens 8-10 hours with school-age youth needing 10-12 …
Sitting Up Straight Can Change Your Life! We’ve all heard the taunts from parents growing up to ‘sit up straight’ and ‘not to slouch’ – but how often did we listen? More importantly, how often did we consider exactly WHY they were telling us to do so?Most of the time, they probably didn’t understand, either. …
“It is always good, but that was incredible! More of that from now on.” Ihab exclaimed. Ihab has been coming to Shift Fitness & Massage on and off for massage for years. Today he mentioned that in the last week he has been having leg cramps often in the last few weeks. As in the …
Or “My Butt Hurts”. Hopefully, you have not experienced this, but it is a real problem for anyone that has a fall on their buttocks. Some women can also have the coccyx that gets “shifted” to one side during childbirth. Some people may have what they consider is “sciatica” pain on one side that involve …
True! In this case some words can also assist in finding a solution to a problem. If I asked you to tell me if this person has any range of motion differences, I am sure you would respond with. “Duh!” I am also sure that you would tell me which arm does not reach as …
