Our family recently rescued a beautiful Australian Shepherd named Sydney from a family who had 7 dogs in a postage-stamp sized yard with no place to run. There she had spent the first 2 years of her life having 2 litters of pups, and competing for food and any morsel of attention she could get.
As a culture of chair-sitters, most of us tend to develop a fairly typical pattern of weakness and tightness around the hips and lower back. It happens like this: sitting in a chair with support, or sitting unsupported in a slouched posture both cause the lower back muscles to gradually weaken, and the hamstrings to
If you remember, last month I described a patient’s experience after having a trauma to her left hip 7 years ago. After getting only temporary relief with both chiropractic, and physical therapy intervention, she began to practice yoga only to find that it seemed to provoke her pain instead of ease it. Two exam findings
