Video Resources
Stretching Your Psoas Muscle
The psoas (pronounced “so-az”) muscle is a key player in back pain. It’s a tube-shaped muscle that starts at the spine, travels forward through the abdomen and attaches to the top of the leg at the front. It’s a hip flexor. That means it helps to bend your leg. And if you sit a lot, this muscle gets ANGRY. Stretching it regularly really helps.
Simple Pool Noodle Exercise
Do you have neck pain? Upper back pain? In between the shoulder blades pain? Try this super simple exercise with a pool noodle. Cut a piece about a foot long off a thick pool noodle (the one I use in the video is great for kids but too thin for adults). Lay the pool noodle on the floor (not your bed!)…
The 3 Exercises You MUST Do if You Have Low Back Pain or Sciatica (or just a really healthy back!)
These are the 3 exercises that are the gold standard for healing pain of all kinds as well as maintaining a healthy back.
Full Body Mobility to Get You Moving in 10 Minutes
I’m all about taking 10 minutes a day to introduce movement into all of our joints before we start our day. In this video, we’re going to work on our neck, shoulders, scapular stabilizers, upper back and hips. If any of these movements cause you pain, stop and consult your chiropractor or other health care practitioner.
Advanced Posture and Upper Back Stretches
Here are some great new exercises you can add into your posture exercise mix. These exercises work specifically on stretching the chest muscles, the neck, muscles, and strengthening the muscles between your shoulder blades that often feel fatigued and burnt out. If you experience pain of any kind, please stop what you’re doing and consult your chiropractor.
Rotator Cuff Strengthening/Rehab Exercises
Rotator cuff injuries are common, especially as women enter perimenopause. People generally never work on strengthening their rotator cuff muscles, but we should. They help to stabilize the shoulders.
In this video, I show 4 exercises designed to help you strengthen these muscles on a regular basis. They can also be used to rehabilitate injured RC muscles once normal range of motion has been recovered.
As neck and upper back joints often compensate for RC strains or tears, see your chiropractor as part of your rehabilitation protocols.
The Proper Way to Engage your Pelvic Floor
If you’ve had kids, your pelvic floor is likely weak and creating instability in your back. It is often the root cause of the nagging low back pain most of the moms in my practice complain of. I’ve been there – I know what it feels like. For years I had a low grade, nagging pain in my low back that…
New Findings in Kids with ADD/ADHD
For years, helping kids with ADD/ADHD has been a bit hit-and-miss as far as medications and lifestyle is concerned. With new advances in technology and testing, we can fine tune YOUR child’s needs better than we have ever been able to before. As a chiropractor, I’ve always believed in customized health care.
Easy Shish Kebab Hack!!
I came home from work the other night to this feast! #kidscancook It’s easy, yummy and SOOOO fun! We just used ground meat and seasoned it with our favourite spices. Kabob’d it up, cooked it for about 25 min and paired it with some sautéed asparagus.
Increasing your Physical and Emotional Health
Here’s my #1 tip for increasing your physical and emotional health…Are you ready? Resist the need to “perform” for others. Our culture is so open that everyone sees what everyone else is doing. And judges it. We can’t fail anymore because everyone will see it. We can’t learn life’s lessons the hard way without fearing that people…
Increasing your Physical and Emotional Health
Are you ready?
Resist the need to “perform” for others.
Our culture is so open that everyone sees what everyone else is doing. And judges it.
We can’t fail anymore because everyone will see it. We can’t learn life’s lessons the hard way without fearing that people will notice we’re not perfect.
We make a fantastic meal for our families…and post it. Our kids win awards…and we post it. We take a great family vacation and…we post it. We celebrate an anniversary or a loss…and we post it.
Someone once said “we watch the highlight reels of everyone else’s lives, but we’re in the edit room of our own lives looking at all the clips we need to cut out so people won’t see them”.
Eat By Design – The 5 Simple Principles to Healthy Eating for Your Family
Eating well shouldn’t be confusing. And how you do it shouldn’t change month to month based on the “latest research”. Eating healthy is simple if you can understand 5 basic principles. You can apply these principles whether you’re at home, on the go with the kids, or on vacation. And you can apply them to pretty much any new nutrition trend. These are 5 principles that help you understand how the human body was designed to eat!
Move By Design – How to Incorporate Spine Friendly Movement into Your Everyday Routines
Movement is a critical component of building a healthy life. Making sure you move in spine-friendly ways that involve variety and different levels of intensity are part of a healthy lifestyle. And they help support your spinal adjustments! This video is designed to help you understand what your body requires of you in terms of movement and how to create different routines for movement in your day-to-day life. The joint to joint morning mobility routine I refer to can be found on my YouTube channel here.
Please consult your health care practitioner before beginning any new movement routine or if you are experiencing any pain.
Arthritis: How It Affects Women As We Age
Join Cindy Willem of My Fit Over 50 and me as we discuss arthritis in women. In this video, we talk about the causes of arthritis, the various kinds of arthritis, and practical solutions for helping you manage arthritis if you have it. We talked about why women are more prone than men, what supplements help, why certain types are movement are helpful and certain types are not, and whether or not to use heat or cold with arthritis pain.
I also gave my top secret “arthritis buster”…the thing I recommend for everyone who suffers from arthritis or doesn’t want to suffer from arthritis.
Please remember that any suggestions I make should be discussed with your health care provider first.
3 GREAT WAYS TO ENJOY WINTER
Is winter getting a little old for you at this point? I struggle every year with wanting to hermit in front of a warm fire and knowing that getting outside is healthy and helps me stay happier. In this video, I share 3 ways I have found to make winter not only more tolerable but fun…no matter what the temperature is!
You can see more videos on my YouTube channel!
