by Jessica Kisiel | Nov 24, 2014 | Posture and Technique
My last blog, Why do glutes shut off?, outlined the three main reasons your butt muscles stop working – pain, position and lack of use. In this blog I am going to provide more information about this powerful muscle group and demonstrate isolating exercises to...
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 | Aug 29, 2014 | Posture and Technique
Gravity: it’s a constant, unrelenting force. It pushes down on your body all day long. If you are not vertically aligned against this continuous pressure, not only will you fail to build your bones (see my blog Prevent Osteoporosis with Aligned Posture), but you may...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 20, 2014 | Injury Recovery, Posture and Technique
Road to Recovery Healing is not a neat and tidy process with well-defined steps from pain to wellness. Instead, it is an individual journey that is unique for each person. The source of chronic pain and the strategies needed for recovery can be simple or complex. Some...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 30, 2014 | Personal Wellness, Posture and Technique
In my last blog, Prevent Osteoporosis with Aligned Posture, I proposed that aligned posture or the lack of it is a risk factor for osteoporosis. When your skeleton is not stacked vertically against gravity, your bones are not being stimulated to grow. As a result,...
