Scoliosis Exercises
As requested are here are some scoliosis exercise videos you can do at home. Remember: Elongation and Breath are key. Breathe in to open up compressed places; breathe out to rotate and anchor. Play with you head placement in each position and Pressing and pulling on...
Jacqueline Sloan – How I came to do what I do…
I grew up with teachers for parents, (one High School, one Elementary), both taught Phys.Ed. They liked to wander the world with their brood (4 kids), so we grew up in small towns, learning to be open to new experiences and to the people that we met. As a youngster,...
Can you rely on MRI?
In today's health-care climate, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often perceived as a commodity-a service where there are no meaningful differences in quality and thus an area in which patients can be advised to select a provider based on price and convenience...
Dr. Dean Kriellaars and the physical literacy movement
If there’s someone in this country who knows physical literacy, it’s Dr. Dean Kriellaars. But the exercise physiologist doesn’t just know it – he advocates tirelessly for it because of the positive impact it can have on our society. “It’s as important as reading and...
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones!
The human skeleton is a pile of bones with no inherent structure of its own. The structure and strength are provided by the ligaments, muscles and connective tissues binding them together. This strength and structure gives the skeleton structural stability, and also...
Pilates in physical education class
Check out this great article by Megyn Taback, a pilates and physical education instructor: https://blog.pilates.com/impacting-high-schoolers-pilates-in-physical-education-class/
The experts are re-defining what constitutes proper core strengthening
Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, demonstrates a few core exercises that emphasize...
Intense competition drives young dancers to extremes and serious injuries
Young dancers are suffering serious hip and back injuries as they push themselves to be the best and perform breathtaking moves, and it's causing serious concerns. Young dancers are being injured copying extreme overstretching exercises they have seen online, a trend...