Core Balance + Wellness

The Best-Kept Secret for Improving Your Health

Studies suggest that smiling, forced or not, can have a positive effect on your mood, decrease stress levels, and even make everyone around you feel better.

Are Your Muscles Working as a Team?

Let’s talk about teamwork. I am not necessarily thinking, “Team America” style teamwork right now, but that does make me laugh a bit. The teamwork […]

IT Syndrome Shouldn’t Sideline You

Does this sound familiar to you? You start off your run full of hope and free of pain. But about a mile or two into the run, you feel pain on the outside of knee or hip. Or, perhaps you feel the pain the next morning after a longer run. You try to take a few days off, but to no avail.

So You Want to Start Running!

After working with numerous clients over the years I have found there are some key things one can do to find success.

Test Your Brain: The Stroop Test

Before the holiday stress fully sets in, let’s play a little game. Let’s test your selective – deliberate, or focused – attention using the Stroop test.

Unsung Hero Award for Quadratus Lumborum

Featured Muscle: Quadratus Lumborum

Quadratus Lumborum (QL) rises to the top of my list as one of the most awesome and important muscles in the human body. It is […]

Knee Pain. Sports running knee injury in male runner.

Runner’s Knee? Don’t Suffer; It’s Treatable

Runner’s knee is a common, yet treatable, injury that many runners often face. Strengthening your quadriceps will improve patellar tracking, and stretching your hamstrings and calves will prevent overpronation……

Break the Twitch

Have you ever had that annoying eyelid twitch that just won’t stop? I have; and eyelid twitches top my list of one of the most […]

Hack Your Brain and Break That Pain Pattern

Daily, there are thousands of decisions that your brain makes without your conscious and willing participation. You may like to think that there’s always a choice to be made; that we have control over our brain and our body. While in many ways that is true, it is false in one big way: neural pathways.

The Doctor’s Dilemma: Opiate Analgesics and Chronic Pain

Opiates are utilized routinely and effectively as a short-term analgesic treatment for a variety of acute pain conditions such as occur following trauma, and for […]