If you are anything like me, you’ve probably dug those running shoes out of the back of the closet to enjoy this unseasonably warm spring. My ankles and calves get WORKED the first few runs of the year after being imprisoned in ski boots for the last 5 months. If you are a trail runner […]

Here’s a big concept for a common issue. At the bottom of your squat you feel a pinching and compression in the crease at the front of your hip joint. Potentially what is going on is a muscle imbalance the Grandma Guru of Movement Impairments Shirley Sahrmann calls Anterior Femoral Glide Syndrome. Biomechanically what happens during […]

A lot of people feel tension and strain in their upper back and between the shoulder blades. While you might be feeling  the pain in your upper back the cause of this muscular tension is actually found in the front of chest. Sitting at desk, riding a bike for hours, giving a massage, picking weeds […]

The Couch Stretch. If you have low back pain, stretch your hip flexors. If you sit at a desk all day, stretch your hip flexors. If you skin for hours in the backcountry, stretch your hip flexors. If you are a cyclist, definately stretch your hip flexors. Seriously everyone can benefit from opening up the […]

Few weeks ago I talked about how to release the long toe flexors. Today we are looking at the opposite side of the lower leg, the Fibularis also known as the Peroneals. The Fibularis and the long toe flexors/tibialis posterior create a stirrup around the ankle and foot. Excessive shortness on one side of the […]

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An original research study comparing the effectiveness of both relaxation and structural massage therapy to standard care for adults with uncomplicated (cancer, recent spinal surgery, spinal stenosis) chronic low back pain found both styles of massage therapy to be more effective in both the short term and long relief of symptoms as compared to “usual” care. The […]

As some of you may have heard I will be on medical leave starting on Monday July 25th, following surgery for  SLAP tear. A SLAP tear involves a tear to the labrum in the shoulder that runs across the superior (top) from the anterior (front) to posterior (back). The labrum is a dense connective tissue […]

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