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Recent Blog Posts
Your Brain Interprets Your Pain
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Neurosciences Professor Dr. Lorimer Moseley says, “Pain is a construct of the brain.”1 Now to be clear, I am not suggesting that the pain is all in your head or that you...
Train Movements, Not Individual Muscles
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Sports performance is the result of coordinated movements. Casting a fly rod, spiking a volleyball, paddling a boat, skiing moguls, and hiking up a mountain all require multiple...
Considerations for Leg Length Discrepancies
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Clients often tell me their legs are different lengths. When they lay down on an examiner’s table, one leg appears longer, and the practitioner informs them that their legs are...
Alignment is the Foundation of Strength and Athletics
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Gray Cook, MSPT, OCS, CSCS, researcher, national lecturer, and author, developed the “Optimum Performance Pyramid” as a model to understand movement. It is a three-tier pyramid;...
How Did Your Body Get Askew?
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. If you're like most active people, your self-assessment revealed unbalanced posture. Your joints were not all perfectly lined up, and the weight in your feet was not even. It's...
Defining the Core
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. What is your core? And how does it relate to your posture? Although we hear a lot about “the core” and have been told we need a strong one from various sources—doctors, fitness...
Find Non-Movement-Based Techniques to Manage Stress
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Injuries raise your stress level. Looking back at the previous tips (for your healing journey), each of these could be a source of stress. Your stress may escalate because you...
Beware of Stretching Your Hamstrings
Please enjoy an excerpt from my book, Winning the Injury Game, available on Amazon. Muscles need to be balanced between the front and back as well as the left and right sides of the body to maintain aligned posture. Aside from the rounding of the upper body,...
Achieve More in 2017 with an Organized Mind
Are you perpetually making to-do lists--but find yourself unable to complete the tasks efficiently? Additionally, do you often feel lost and overwhelmed with your responsibilities, and despite being continuously busy, perceive you are not making progress in the...
Meet Jessica!
I believe we are designed to move and play throughout our entire lives. I don’t buy into the idea that we should slow down with age, or that pain, injury and physical restrictions are unavoidable aspects of growing older. So, here’s my philosophy. Our mental mindset, combined with the physical position and condition of the body that we bring into any activity (from walking to skiing to everything in between), determines our chance of hurting when we move. If we have a positive mindset, and if we have proper positioning and move with correct body biomechanics, all activities should be possible.
This is the goal I have for everyone: to overcome pain and limitations so you can Stay in the Game for Life!
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