by Jessica Kisiel | Nov 4, 2014 | Posture and Technique
Have you ever been told your glutes don’t work? I have! When I started my posture therapy program, I couldn’t activate my left glutes at all. It’s like they had amnesia, which they did. In other words, my muscles had forgotten how to work. To illustrate, Dr. Stuart...
by Jessica Kisiel | Oct 20, 2014 | Posture and Technique
Your hip flexors are vitally important to aligned posture and efficient movement. Your two primary hip flexors are the Psoas and Iliacus muscles. As you can see in this Wikipedia illustration to the right, the Psoas muscle attaches to the spine, then passes in front...
by Jessica Kisiel | Oct 7, 2014 | Injury Recovery
Body awareness is the first step towards a pain free body. One of the initial things a client often experiences while working with me is enhanced postural awareness. Prior to our session, they rarely thought about how they held their body. After our time together, my...
by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 23, 2014 | Sports Training
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Ben Franklin said these famous words in 1736 in reference to fire prevention. You can apply the same philosophy, however, to sports injuries. For several reasons–beyond the obvious–we want to avoid any...
by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 8, 2014 | Injury Recovery
“Pain is part of the body’s defense system, producing a reflexive retraction from the painful stimulus, and tendencies to protect the affected body part while it heals, and avoid that harmful situation in the future.” This is the evolutionary and...
