Looking at shoulder positioning
How placing holding your chest up and engaging your shoulders places them in a position the relieves neck pain
Looking at improving hip flexion to avoid back pain
A good healthy spine is one that can work in the 3D plane, bending forwards, backwards and sideways as well as rotating evenly.
Is it important to set an example on the High Street?
Women, men, girls and boys walk up and down the high street, admiring clothes as they look in the windows of the shops displaying the latest fashion. We learn how to do things and what is right and wrong from the environment that surrounds us. We copy and recreate images and actions that we see. …
The Shoulder Joint
This joint is very mobile with almost 3D movement, having 3 bones offered up to each other, no direct secure bone fixing in a ball and socket type fixing – they are held in place by muscles, rather than a solid joint of bone fitting into bone like the hip joint. Aside from an impact …
The knee joint
The knee joint is a very vulnerable joint – relying on the stability of the foot and the hip. The knee is a joint that is designed to bend and straighten, it is not designed to hyperextend nor to rotate. It’s stability depends on the foot functioning correctly, and the ankle having full mobility. This …
Tight Hip Flexors
The root cause of many people’s lower back pain and other health problems could be down to tight hip flexors. The impact the hips have on the whole body was never totally clear to me until I trained as a biomechanist and started to understand the relationship between the hips and the body. Tight or …
Straightness
It is all very well to correct our straightness and our posture in a controlled gym environment, or on a mat, but what we really need to be doing is correct it in all the actions and things we do in life. However having an understanding of what is actually stuck, tight, over flexible is …
Ankle strength and stability
If your ankles do not have the same range of motion or strength – will that affect your body? Maybe there is no pain – but if you do not move and stabilise the same on each side you will compensate at your knee or at your hip or at your lower back in order …
The part “STABILITY” plays in speed and powerful actions.
If you slam the door of a room with a wobbly plywood wall as you slam the door the wall will wobble and much of the energy will be lost here rather than in the door actually slamming shut versus slamming the door on a brick wall, which will swing on a firm hinge and …
Hannah sends a lovely message
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