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Is Tennis Your Racket?
EVERY SPORT HAS its overuse injuries, and with tennis it is the shoulder and the elbow – although the wrist and shoulder have a connection also. As a long time tennis and badminton player, instructor, and coach (I started playing when I was in elementary...
The Importance of Flexible Muscles
STRENGTH PLUS FLEXIBILITY in the proper timing and intensity = coordination. No matter how strong you are, you are missing one half your potential if you are inflexible. Tight muscles account for injuries, poor athletic performance, shortened steps, unease...
Ankle Sprains: Rice, Police, Meth, or Mice
ANKLE SPRAINS ARE COMMON especially among athletes and especially among athletes who have a long second toe known as Morton’s Toe. It has nothing to do with the length of the second toe. If you bend the toes under with your hand, you will note that the knuckle of the...
Painless Dance and Star Performance: Better Backs with Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® ~ Part 2 of 6
This series was first published in 2014 for Arizona Dance e-Star, a publication of the Arizona Dance Coalition. In this series of articles you'll learn how to treat low back pain... hip and groin pain... knee and leg pain... and ankle and foot pain. In Part 1 I'll...
Painless Dance and Star Performance: An Introduction ~ Part 1 of 6
This series was first published in 2014 for Arizona Dance e-Star, a publication of the Arizona Dance Coalition. In this series of articles you'll learn how to treat low back pain... hip and groin pain... knee and leg pain... and ankle and foot pain. In Part 1 I'll...
The Fitness of You
BEING IN PHYSICAL shape to live life to the hilt can mean different things at different periods of your life. However, no matter your age… If you are to get through the day comfortably; If you are to have the strength to reach out to others; If you are to meet...
The All Essential Warm-Up Exercise
ALTHOUGH MOST of us can agree that exercise is essential for healthy living, few of us can agree on the meaning of exercise. To some it means nothing, to others everything — and then there is every grade in between. In America, exercise means anything the media...
“Ask What You Can Do for Your Country”
IN HIS INAUGURAL Address, January 20, 1961, John F, Kennedy famously said… “And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Here are three things you can do to help your country and to help you. All...
Health Care: Remember All the Babies
IT IS OFTEN SAID that “you can’t buy health.” Every new parent expects a healthy child and most follow the rules to make sure that the new family member is born healthy and welcomed with love and best of care. But then what? Many New Year’s Resolutions are health...
Pushing Through to Push-Ups!
IF YOU’VE EVER had the good fortune to view a cadaver you are suddenly aware that you are bearing witness to a very remarkable piece of construction and engineering. The Shoulder The shoulder girdle provides the widest range of motion of any part of the body. It is...