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The Edge

  In today’s newsletter, I want to discuss a powerful concept that applies to both life and health. A common description I use when talking to a patient about exercising an injured joint is to stretch the joint up to the edge of pain; not into pain but just to the edge. This simple phrase […]

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Ouch!

  Three weeks ago after finishing up my shower in the morning, I bent forward to squeegee the water off the walls. All of a sudden my back seized up.  Now the odd thing was that being bent forward was not the problem.  It was when I tried to straighten up that it grabbed me.  […]

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How much is right?

This seemingly simple little question is almost always answered wrong.  Just how much should you do anything?  For me, this came into sharp awareness recently while working with my sweetie Ellen while her back was seized up for a week.  Essential to recovering from a seized up back is movement.  Movement hurts so her natural […]

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Nation of Addicts

We are a nation of addicts.  The numbers for the socially unacceptable addictions are scary: 51.8% of people over 12 drink alcohol 23.1% (40.6% of young adults) have binge drunk in the last 30 days 24.7% of Americans use tobacco 68% of the population is overweight or obese 35% to 69% of Americans by state […]