LIKE YOUR OTHER PARTS, your feet cannot be separated from the rest of you. Hips influence knees and feet, and feet influence knees and hips. If you are a dancer or gymnast you probably have very strong flexible feet. If you are a dancer, especially on point, your feet...

THE NURSERY RHYME tells us that little girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” And little boys? “…snips and snails and puppy dog tails.” I prefer Johnny Mercer’s “life is what you make it,” and that goes for girls and boys and their muscles too. There...

  THE CHINESE PROVERB dealing with self-reliance, consistency and courage, plus getting somewhere on your own… lies in taking the first step. Many times we don’t know what that first step should be or even how to take it. “If you walk across the street and are...

  The Statistics According to statistics, eighty two percent of drowning victims are younger than four years of age and most of the incidents involve bathtubs or bath related products such as buckets, toilets, bath seats and of course, back yard pools. Drowning...

  The History IN THE EARLY 1930s, a young Austrian doctor whose specialty was repairing fractures was preparing a medical paper using several 100 patients. All the patients had wrist fractures and casts. As part of his study he gave half the group simple...

  Disease, Trigger Points and Muscle Pain VARIOUS DISEASES cause pain; multiple sclerosis is one such villain that can be counted on to do that. No matter the rascal at work, don’t think disease, think pain. Most pain is muscle-related and if it is...

  WITH THE NEW YEAR come new resolutions often connected with diet, exercise and weight loss. However, by February 14th many of us have forgotten those resolutions or given up. Usually when it comes to exercise our good intentions are abandoned because: we don’t...

PLANTAR refers to the bottom of the foot FASCIA refers to sheet or band of fibrous tissue ITIS is medicalese for inflammation   LIKE YOUR OTHER PARTS, your feet cannot be separated from the rest of you. Hips influence knees and feet and feet influence knees and...

“Sit up straight!“ “Don’t slouch!” “Get your hands out of your pockets!“ “Don’t cross your arms in front of you!”      THE SUBJECT of posture is not only boring (which is why it isn’t in the title) it is irritating. This is especially true of those who have been...

  Hamstring, by definition, refers to any of the five tendons associated with the muscles in the back of the thigh. It is also the term most often used to refer to the muscles themselves. These muscles are semitendinosus, semimembranosus, and biceps femoris....