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Understand Your Low Back: How to Protect and Care for Your Back

Have you ever wondered why some exercises are considered better for your back than others? Or do you want to understand your back better and have some good strategies to protect your back while exercising or working? Your spinal joints are small with sensitive nerve structures while your feet, knees, and hips are big with less sensitive structures and more suitable for weight bearing and movement. Learning to move with your feet, knees, and hips while keeping your spine stable is the key concept of core training and protecting your back. In this series of articles I will discuss the anatomy of your low back, common causes of conditions like arthritis and other low back pain, and the big idea of core training and some things to avoid for your [...]

Pain While You Sleep? 3 Ways to Change Your Sleep Positions to Be More Comfortable

You sleep for at least 8 hours a day. It is common especially as you get older to notice that when you wake up you may feel stiff, wake up with numb hands, or pain in your neck and shoulders. Therefore I am often asked what is the best way to sleep. Most experts agree that whatever position your body tend to go towards is the best. If you find that you are waking up with pain and suspect that your sleeping position is causing your pain try these sleeping modifications. I have tried these myself and I really thought these were some of the best modifications I have seen. Back Sleepers: Reduce Stiffness in Your Back and Keep Your Arms and Hands from Falling Asleep Perhaps when you [...]

Massage Therapy for Upper Back Pain

Your upper back tension may start out as minor. You catch yourself in awkward positions in an eager attempt to stretch out your shoulders. Your friends and co-workers give you funky looks as you try to crack your back or press up against the corner of a wall to get those tight spots. At other times your upper back tension may flare up into really sharp pain as you move your neck or shoulders. Sometimes it might hurt you to breathe which really freaks you out. Worse still, you may experience pain that radiates into the shoulder or into your arm which causes you to seek out medical help. These symptoms may seem out of the blue and unrelated to your normal upper back tension. Muscle strain, tightness, and [...]

Massage Therapy Treatment for Sciatica Relief In Greenwich, CT.

Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email Address * First Name * Last Name You don't know what you did but this pain in your leg is driving you crazy. Sometimes it's a sharp pain like a knife that keeps you from being able to just sit down. Other times it's just a deep ache that bothers you while just sitting down to have dinner. In other instances it seems fine except certain positions bother it and you can't seem to figure it out. You go to a doctor and they tell you have a herniated disc. They tell you to go to physical therapy and if that doesn't help you, you may need surgery. You look it up on the internet and talk to freinds, and everyone [...]

Massage Therapy For Low Back Pain

There is nothing like low back pain to let you know how much your low back is involved in even the simplest of movements. Something as simple as sitting down is excruciating and involves all of your concentration to avoid severe pain. Low back pain can be frustrating as the pain can be just fine and dandy as you move about your day but the minute you lie down to go to sleep the pain keeps you up at night and prevents you from restful sleep. Massage therapy is an effective treatment for many types of low back pain. Even for conditions involving arthritis, bulging or herniated discs, and pinched nerves: massage can help! Soft Tissue Disorders The low back is a complex structure with many joints and [...]

Disc Problems and How Massage Therapy Can Help

Back in 2007 my first week working in a Rehabilitation office was intense. There were 2 cases of disc herniation in my first day and I remember them well. Both cases had severe pain and were on the verge of tears. It was pain that they had never experienced before and this was their last resort before surgery. I really wasn't sure if they would get better because of the amount of pain they had but each treatment they had they felt improvement. After 4 weeks they were much better and it was such a transformation in their personalities from the first day I met them from being depressed and hopeless to pretty much being how they probably were before I met them. That was seven years ago and I [...]