The Importance of Thoracic Spine Mobility
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Mark S.Posted
Thu 06 May 2010 9:51am
Do your shoulders slump and round when you walk, sit, or stand?
Do you have trouble keeping your chest up when squatting under a bar or lifting heavy things off the ground?
Do you get lower back or neck pain when doing twisting or rotational movements?
Have you resigned yourself to living with that nagging rotator cuff pain that fla ...
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Forward Neck Posture And How It Will Work Its Way Down The Spine…
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Nav J.Posted
Sun 21 Feb 2010 2:16pm
One of the most common postural and spinal misalignments we see these days is forward head posture. This is when the head and neck are shifted forward from the center of gravity.
We’ve talked at length about forward head posture and how it straightens the normal cervical curve as well as how it can cause neck and shoulder pain, muscle pain, ...
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How Maintaining your Spine Angles helps to Maintain your Health!
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Nav J.Posted
Sun 19 Sep 2010 12:00am
Your spine has a “C” curve in the neck, then the spine changes angles and has a bigger “C” angle going the other way, and then back to a “C” type angle of the low back. In the dorsal spine or mid-back and in the lumbar spine or low back the angle is more of an elliptical shape.
Keep in mind that the whole spine works together and ...
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Know Your Spine
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functionalfitnessPosted
Fri 17 Jun 2011 7:54pm
After suffering a strain in my lower back a couple of weeks ago, I was inspired to write you all a lovely article about causes, prevention, and cures for lower back pain. But, I realized that I couldn’t write an effective article without you having a basic knowledge of the spine. So, today I’m going to give you all a little anatomy lesson! D ...
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Treating Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Cervical Spine Naturally
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Nav J.Posted
Thu 12 Mar 2009 3:42pm
If you have been diagnosed with arthritis in the cervical spine, your Dr probably has put you on medications. What are some natural ways you can treat this condition of the cervical spine?
If your suffer from arthritis such osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis you may suffer from stiffness, joint pain, tenderness and swelling. Fingers, ...
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Same blue dye in M&Ms and Gatorade linked to reducing spine injury
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Medical QuackPosted
Wed 29 Jul 2009 10:42pm
The treatment requires more than just eating M & Ms and drinking Gatorade, it needs to be delivered through an IV, and the side effects may temporarily turn you blue for a while until it fades and goes away. The study involved injecting rats with the BBG dye and the results compared to those who did not have any injections were quite different, ...
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Arc4life’s Spine-Worx Posture system helps maintain spinal alignment!
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Nav J.Posted
Sat 01 Aug 2009 10:26pm1 Comment
Your pillows have helped my neck but I still get some mid and lower back pain, what can I do?
A lot of the time fixing the neck will help the mid and lower back. Our spine all works together; our bodies are one big kinetic chain because. You know – our leg bone connects to our hip bone, our hip bone connects to our … I forget the actual rhyme ...
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Forward Head Carriage can Increase the Weight of the Head on the Spine …
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Nav J.Posted
Fri 24 Sep 2010 1:32pm
Foward Head Posture
Forward head posture can actually increase the weight of the head on the spine by an additional 10 pounds (Kapundji, Physiology of Joints; Vol. 3).
Basically, our spines are built with these curves in place to withstand the forces of gravity. It’s just like a set of building blocks; if you stac ...
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Motion is Life- Especially in the Cervical Spine
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Nav J.Posted
Thu 10 Feb 2011 12:00am
They say: “Motion is Life.” This is because every joint in the body should be able to move. Movement allows for inflammation to dissipate out of a region. It allows for water, nutrients and oxygen to move into areas also. The spine is a series of joints between each vertebrae; that’s 24 spinal bones down to the sacrum and up to you ...
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