As many of you know, each year I use a portion of the practice collections to donate to a variety of organizations as way to express my thanks to patients and pay it forward. While I usually wait until the holidays to talk about it, when possible, …
Home Invasion
Your body is your home and when it’s under siege by illness or being overhauled by medical experts it can feel like a home invasion. Some of us in the healthcare fields are aware of this and there is training and there are privacy procedures that …
Are You Ignoring Your Basic Body Needs?
All signs point to “yes”. Most of us do. But first, I want to share something that recently had me quietly celebrating. It’s some research that was published in June of this year in the Journal of the International Study of Pain and it’s about …
The Cranky Baby Test – 3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself When You Feel Stressed, Anxious or Frustrated
I often tell this story when talking about the connection between our emotions and our biochemistry, so you may have heard it before. One of my very distinct childhood memories was of a time when my mother responded to a meltdown I was having, by …
5 Ways to Walk “Smarter”
There are articles popping up everywhere lately about how walking is the “new black”. It’ll help you live longer and look younger. No, not really but it can seem that way. I’m thinking of this recent one about a study linking less knee pain with …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Stretching “Wrong” (5 of 5)
If you’re like most of my patients, you don’t stretch before or after your exercise-walks or hikes …and for some reason you feel guilty about it when asked. There are a lot of mixed ideas about stretching and I’m not saying you should …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Stretching “Wrong” (5 of 5)
