Prenatal trends that happened in 2020.
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What is corrective exercise? Correct of exercise is a set of skills and techniques that allow healthy people to illuminate compensations or muscle and balances as a result of normal living. For many of my clients have watched my practice evolve over the last 10 plus years no that massage is not only the framework from which I've built everything else but it's also open the launching platforms to expand into several different areas that go beyond massage.
Read MoreI thought it was time to do a blog post about the importance of finishing physical therapy as it's one of the most common cost prohibitive activities to people getting back to regular function after an injury. I believe that there are several reasons that people do not finish physical therapy and first and foremost I believe it's the pain for profit ratio that comes from the injury recovery process.
Read MoreWhy is appears so much now with Covid19? With the change in our ability to travel, walk indoors, exercise in gyms as much, our lack of movement gives our body the chance to forget correct movement pattern. Our hip flexors tighten up (think front of the abdominals and front leg muscles closest to the pelvis) and as they do so our bodies starts to compensate for that tightness by not telling your glutes to “fire” in the correct sequence for correct body posture and movement. There is a term for this called muscle fire sequencing is physical therapy and personal training fields.
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To best illustrate what it is I'm discussing in real terms I want to bring a scenario into your head: a client comes in complaining of mid back pain stemming from yardwork that happened several days ago. Upon palpation I might discover that some of the muscles have become isotonic. The client states that they needed to use ibuprofen and small amounts for the last several days in order to keep the pain at bay. Are use of the red light therapy in this case can be done at any point during the session….
Read MoreChiropractic is becoming more and more common in the United States as people of learned over the last 60 years that it's no longer junk science but a percision method of improving peoples health. Chiropractic like massage therapy and personal training has a number of different methods to get to the same goals some of them have greater effectiveness on people than others but in a general sense still very effective for most people.
Read MoreFor spring in the northern state it brings many people outside there only for recreation but also for intense physical activity like annual sporting leagues. In this blog post we're going to talk about what Tony Schwartz bodywork is going to do for you when it comes to preparing for spring sports leagues and activities
Read MoreLearn why I care about your physical therapy when you come into Tony Schwartz Bodywork LLC.
Read MoreMediCupping is a unique kind of cupping in that an electronic air pump device is used with other tools to work large areas of the body at once unlike other forms of cupping which might be isolated to select areas. So a premier example would be working the entire back with a cup about the size little bit bigger than a grapefruit and working it into the entire back. You could also use it over whole joints, legs, arms or shoulders. This method allows us to work on more systemic type problems and larger compensations that are fairly common for certain types of conditions or injuries resulting in soreness or discomfort. One of the wonderful features of medicupping is the ability to adjust the suction pressure so that we can concentrate on different layers of body tissue similar to how someone who applies different techniques in massage can reach different layers of tissue while ignoring others. Facial tissue or some cold connective tissue has been in the news quite a bit recently because the public perception of the importance this interconnective lattice of spongy stretchy tissue that's around most of the internal organs muscles and other tissues in the body.
Read MoreLearn about how I work with your personal trainer. There is an important link between working with someone to meet your goals and me, Tony, right here at Tony Schwartz Bodywork
Read MoreMassage at Home? Yep! Read on please
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