Mark and Brian from Fitness for Life and coming to you again with what we call “pewter posture,” which means computer posture. We get a lot of patients come in with neck pain and upper back pain, and we attribute it to how they sit at a computer, or at a desk, or on cell […]
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Today, we’re going to give you suggestions on the kind of exercises you need to do before you start an exercise program. Because function, so how we move, activities we do, sports we play, anything like that involves basic movement patterns. One is squatting. You need to pick some exercise that involves squatting, because squatting
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What we’re going to talk about this month is a big part of the body that gets overlooked quite a bit – and that is the mid back or the thoracic spine. Why the thoracic spine is so important is because, number one, nowadays people are in such rounded forward postures, working on computers, cell
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https://youtu.be/Kv47WYVnUq0 What we’re seeing a lot right now – people with elbow pain. Kids and adults. So, I don’t know why so much right now, but all of a sudden we’re starting to get a lot of people that get elbow pain. There are typically a couple reasons for it. One is, usually with the
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Hi there, Mark and Brian here, coming to you from Fitness4Life. So we have had a special request to do a video on how to get up from being on the ground. This comes from Charlotte, a dear friend of ours and a patient, and she requested this and we thought it was a great
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Feet are the cornerstone of what the rest of your body’s gonna do. Why? Because that’s the only two contacts you have at the ground. So as the feet go, the rest of the body goes. Your feet are designed to provide a stable base for you to do anything from – from walking to
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Hi there, Mark. Brian. We’re coming to you from Fitness4LifePT, and we’re gonna talk to you this month about balance exercises. Why? Because balance is good, and if you don’t have balance, you might fall and hurt yourself and then come in here, which we’d love to see you, but we’d rather you not hurt
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This month what we’re going to talk about is glute exercises, or the backside. When we look at the glute area, that mid portion by the pelvis, kind of the center of the body, everything from the ground up goes through that area. Everything from the top down goes through that area. So it’s kind
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What we’re going to talk about today is a prime movement that everybody should be able to do because whether they realize it or not, and they do it in everyday life. That movement is called a deadlift. What people don’t realize, as soon as you say deadlift, they think of going in their gym,
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What I want to talk to you about this month is something new we are offering here at the clinic. It is called a Functional Movement Screening. This is a test consisting of seven different movement patterns that are based on primitive patterns, meaning primitive patterns are how we all learned to get up from
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