Archive for the ‘Aging’ Category
Do you suffer from painful hands, knees or hips? If so, you may have osteoarthritis (OA), a condition characterized by pain and stiffness in the joints. OA is distinct from rheumatoid arthritis, which is an auto-immune disease also affecting the joints, which can lead to redness and swelling of the joints. What Causes Osteoarthritis? Causes [...]
Lots of people ask me if I have any suggestions for leg cramps. These tend to occur in the calf, the hamstrings or the quadriceps muscles. The hamstrings are on the back of your thighs, and go from your sitz bones (what you sit on) down to your knee. Your quadriceps muscles are on the [...]
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them that I teach posture classes to relieve back pain, they say, “Oh, I don’t have back pain.” Actually, I didn’t think I had back pain either! When I first met Jean Couch, author of The Runner’s Yoga Book, and started [...]
Do you want to live to be 100? The Centers for Disease Control reports that Americans currently have an average life expectancy of 77.9 years. This has risen from 49.2 years at the turn of the 20th century. The aging of the Baby Boomers also means that we now have a larger group of people [...]