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Adding Good Habits to your day to Help you Feel Better and Breathe Better and Move Better .

April 28, 2021 l by Mike McAleese

Add these GOOD habits to your day and start feeling and moving better! We always hear about bad habits.  In today's newsletter I am going to share two GOOD habits you can add to your day to help start feeling better in your body. #1 Posture checks Some people think posture does not matter. Well, we disagree. How you sit or stand for a long time can affect how you f ...Read More

Rotator Cuff do you know them

March 24, 2021 l by Mike McAleese

Week 4 Subject:  Get to know your rotator cuff and its dos and don'ts. The rotator cuff and the muscles that make it up are often the sources of shoulder impingement, tendonitis, and tears. Four key muscles make up your rotator cuff. There is also a fifth muscle that helps the rotator cuff group. The supraspinatus sits in a groove on the top of the shoulder blade and attaches to ...Read More

The Hand Bones are connected to the … Do you remember that song

March 19, 2021 l by Mike McAleese

Do you remember that old song, Them Bones? We got the finger bones Connect the hand bones Connect the arm bones Connect the shoulder bones The song does simplify anatomy a bit and yet, speaks the truth. Various parts of our body are intimately connected. The bones are connected via muscles, tendons, fascia, etc. Anatomy can be complicated yet, this somewhat silly son ...Read More

Make Stress Management Part of your Daily Routine

March 10, 2021 l by Mike McAleese

Stress is recognised as a contributing factor in all diseases. We are all exposed to stress every single day, therefore it is important that we have some simple and effective stress management strategies that we can use daily (or almost daily). The more regularly we manage and relieve our stress the less chance it has to build up in our systems and potentially cause or contribute to illn ...Read More

Do you ever feel like your shoulders are in your ears?

March 5, 2021 l by Mike McAleese

Do you ever feel like your shoulders are in your ears or like you have an annoying knot in your shoulder?   This can be caused by a muscle that is stretched out tight, similar to pulling a rubber band tight. The muscle is called the levator scapula. The picture below shows how the muscle attaches to the neck (cervical spine) near the ear and to the top of our shoulder blade ...Read More

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