Category: shoulder rehab napa

Finger Strength-Get a Grip on your Fitness Routine

The small bones protruding from the ends of our hands meticulously function throughout our everyday lives to perform tasks with remarkable dexterity and precision, beginning first thing in the morning and maintaining their efficient productivity until the last moments before our heads rest on a pillow and we transition into a deep slumber.  These little …

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Train me to get up off the floor

“What’s the sport where the super athletic crazy guys jump on walls and scale them like a lizard?”  Asked Ophelia at one of her morning training sessions.  “You know, you see stunt men do it in Jason Bourne and John Wick movies.  They hang off walls, drop from cliffs, and land like cats after a …

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Avoiding Exercises That Hurt

“How’d you feel after the last workout?” I asked Thor, one of our long-time personal training clients, before beginning his first of two weekly training sessions.  “I feel pretty good except for some knee pain I’m experiencing.” I looked at Thor with a gaze of concern as he continued sharing how his body reacted from …

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Reduce Shoulder Pain with Skillful Exercise Decisions

Upper extremity movements are present in a multitude of events in our everyday lives.  Reaching overhead to obtain a coffee mug from a high shelf in the cupboard, rotating and reaching backward to grab hold of a seatbelt and fastening it before disembarking in our cars, or simply putting on a jacket are a few …

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Resistance Training and Osteoporosis Management

The six hundred and two bones comprising the human skeleton are sophisticated structures of living tissue.  Our bones are key components that allow us to interact with the physically active environments in which we participate in our normal daily lives.  Starting from the cellular level, bones are made up of a dense concentration of osteons, …

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Slower Exercise to Recover and Keep Going

“I’m not sure I should come in for my training session today.  I might have lifted something the wrong way when I was bending down to prune my roses.  Now, I have some tightness and pain in my lower back and right side of my hip.  What do you recommend?” read one of the emails …

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Sciatica Exercise Intervention

Physical pain triggered by overuse injuries, deconditioned or weak muscles, or traumatic events substantially impacts the general population’s everyday life.  Normal functional activities, including running errands, conducting general home-based chores, or simply getting in and out of bed, can become significantly hindered by a chronic injury that inflicts pain on an area of the body.  …

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Staying fit throughout the end of the year

November brings chilly days with less sunlight than we’re used to in the summer months.  Adjusting our clocks back one hour sets the tone for the official start of stepping foot into the winter months.  Driving home from work, embracing a naturally lit street powered by the sun is now replaced by the glow of …

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Getting Into an Exercise Ritual

Regular exercise adherence improves our overall quality of life in an almost immeasurable way. Keeping our bodies fit assists in losing weight, decreasing the risk of cardiovascular or metabolic disease, and contributes to beneficial stress management to our psycho-emotional well-being.  Exercise continues to be a panacea for healing symptoms that threaten physical, emotional, psychological, and …

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Optimal Posture While Sitting

Imagine living without tables, desks, or work benches.  Throw in the twist of removing an automobile that we sit down in to take us to our desired location in minutes.  Just for fun, put yourself in a fantasy world where the revolution of cell phones never crossed the mind of the brilliant inventors who created …

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