Category: Shoulder Pain Napa

Staying Fit to Manage Arthritis

General age-related breakdown occurs in many aspects of our lives, including the wear and tear of the engines in our automobiles, the scuffs in our hardwood floors, or the chipping of paint on the side of our houses facing the hot afternoon sun.  These repercussions of being present in the world for years can’t necessarily …

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Exercise is the Natural High

“It doesn’t get much better than this,”  I commented after sitting on a bench at Crane Park in St. Helena and peering out into the vineyard-laced countryside with a few of my pickleball companions.  We concluded a three-hour session of playing pickleball matches, switching partners every game.  For me, this was just what the doctor …

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How to Fall

The risk of falling introduces itself in a multitude of ways including deconditioned fitness levels, harsh external environments, or, what most of us are concerned about as we tack on another decade to our lives, the advancement of age and deterioration of balance.  A foot catching the end of an area rug, slipping off of …

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Utilizing Exercise to Reinforce Confidence in Balance

The ability to maintain our body’s balance throughout our everyday life activities is critically important to our productivity and functionality.  Deconditioned fitness levels, recovering from a significant surgery, or the general advancement of age play a role in creating unbalanced environments.  Standing up from seated or lying down positions, correcting our walking path if we …

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Managing Arthritis with Skillful Exercise and Rest Decisions

“Once we get over the age of thirty, we’re pretty much diagnosed with arthritis.”  These were the words of a physical therapist who mentored me during one of my many internship experiences.    Arthritis appears in a multitude of presentations based on an individual’s history of injury, adherence to exercise and physical activity, or through a …

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What a Pain in the Neck

“What a pain in the neck,” I muttered after spotting a leak in the irrigation tubing responsible for hydrating my sweet potatoes.  As I surveying my garden observing the vast array of green leaves bustling out of their stems to enjoy the warm summertime weather and basque in the glory of photosynthesis they are set …

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Fend off Arthritis by Managing Stagnant Joints

As I was meandering through my garden over Memorial Day weekend, basking in the glowing Napa sunlight and enjoying the refreshing Northern California breeze, I went to move my wheelbarrow away from one of my garden beds.  The bok choy in my garden was thriving.  However,  something disturbing residing within the bed of the wheelbarrow …

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Postural Awareness Increases Productivity

The spinal cord is an elongation of our brain consisting of a series of hollow bones stacked on top of each other.  These bony structures are our vertebrae.    Spanning from the base of the skull down to the buttocks, each vertebra possesses a hollow cylinder-like interior meant to encase and protect the spinal cord.  Consisting …

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Exercise Before Your Brain Turns On

Agendas in our lives require a substantial amount of bandwidth made up of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.  From waking up in the morning to making breakfast and getting spruced up for work, to figuring out what’s for dinner at the end of the day, we have many obligations that need to get done before …

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New to Exercising, Shoulder Injury Prevention

The third month of the year is coming to an end.  For those of us who have embraced the tactic of consistently adhering to a new fitness routine and refining our health as a New Year resolution, the results of exercising regularly are probably starting to show.  Following ninety days of exercise one to three …

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