We Need to Make Balanced Posture Cool Again!
We need to make it cool that people of all ages sit and stand upright, in Balance. A museum’s security guard took this image. Many topics can spin off of this photo. Our concern is postural, the deterioration of the alignment of the human skeleton. From studying young children, our ancestors, and native populations around […]
One Quick Solution to Back Pain
You would think, wouldn’t you, that something as simple as leaning against a wall couldn’t be screwed up? But once again, a few photos tell the story. The last time Mike and I were in Portugal, in 2014, I saw these two gentlemen at a local cafe. I was thrilled. When I was in Portugal […]
No Posture Regrets
A student sent this image, part of a thread she saw on social media. She wondered if one of this gentleman’s regrets might be not taking better care of his posture. My guess is that he very likely doesn’t regret not improving his posture, because he doesn’t know he could have changed it. He might […]
Save Your Organs
Save Your Organs If you’re like me, the photo above makes you wince because you know exactly how sore her neck, back and shoulders are going to be. Who hasn’t found themselves collapsed over some electronic device, or while working on an art project, or watching TV, and then felt the effects? Take a second […]
The Secret About Sciatica
The Mayo Clinic Health Letter (Vol 40 No 11), November 2022, concludes that the cause of sciatica is too much sitting: “Our spines weren’t designed for us to be sitting for hours at a time.” (It’s a paid subscription so I can’t provide a link.) Upon reading this I hear myself shout, “It’s not sitting, […]
Gravity Is the Healer
This photo, from the March 2022 Rotary magazine, tells the story of Balance*. Two men carry similar loads of hand sanitizers in Bangladesh. One man looks burdened, and the other looks carefree. The man in the foreground is out of Balance. He curves forward. His load pushes him downward. Pressure from his misaligned spine and […]
Rolling for a Healthy Spine
Ouch! I often hear myself responding “ouch” to an exercise image that scares the wits out of me – like this one.. There are two clear problems here: first, lying over a roller like this puts your spine at risk, and second, it makes your spine more curved. You devote time and energy […]
Does Your Spine Buckle When Lying on Your Back?
Comfort in bed contributes to a good night’s rest. Are you comfortable when you lie on your back? Or do you feel tension caused by increased curves in your neck and/or your lower back? “Buckling” is one word for excessive curves in your back. Painful is another. To buckle something is to distort it, […]
Reclaim Shorter Arched Feet
You Can Reclaim Healthy Feet In any contest for the least-appreciated body part, our feet would be winners. That is, of course, until something goes wrong. Then our feet get our full attention. As my husband says frequently, walking is the one activity we want to be able to do all the days of our […]
A Cultural Blind Spot
Take a Look, What Do You See? Give the following a try — ask people to describe what they see in the image above. Most people will say something like, “a middle-aged heterosexual couple dressed in outdoorsy clothing standing face to face by the ocean.” That’s okay, as far as it goes. But if you’ve […]