by not-admin | Jan 12, 2020 | Blog
The most difficult thing about starting to exercise later in life is knowing how to start. It’s the same if you try to learn a new skill or engage in a new hobby for the first time. If you have nobody to teach you, how are you supposed to learn? These days, you have...
by not-admin | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog
The shin bone’s connected to the…neck bone? Not directly, no. But in a circuitous way, your entire body is one intricate web of parts that all affect one another in ways both obvious and discrete. Have you ever pulled a muscle in your neck or lower back, only to...
by not-admin | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog
Fascia Explained You have hundreds of muscles in your body. Ever wonder how they all keep their specific shape? Why don’t muscles constantly knot up and get twisted around? How do skeletal muscles stay secured to bones without fraying at the ends? Fascia is how....
by not-admin | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog
Why does the astronaut run on a treadmill in space? No, it’s not the set-up to a hilarious joke – this astronaut is preventing sarcopenia. Sarcopenia, also known as muscle atrophy, is the wasting or loss of muscle tissue. In space, the lack of gravity...
by not-admin | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog
Imagine that you’re one month into recovering from surgery that repaired your torn ACL – but you’re a bridesmaid in a destination wedding in Tuscany. You could bail. You could stay home on the couch while your friends and family gulp down Chianti by the...
by not-admin | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog
When most San Diegans think of physical therapy, they think of it as a rehabilitative measure that you have to deal with after an injury or surgery. In fact, the opposite is true; physical therapy can be preventative. Think of it this way: you see your family doctor...