Arthritis Myths Busted: Tips for Relief

SUMMARY  If you take one thing away from today’s talk, let it be this: there is always something you can do to feel better, even if you’ve been told otherwise. You don’t have to accept joint pain [...]

Start any new exercise or increase in activity intensity at a level that feels super duper easy (another one of my technical terms). If your brain says, “This isn’t possibly aggressive enough to [...]

If there’s ONE THING I want you to get out of this post it’s that you CAN decrease your fall risk and improve your balance TODAY, with just a few simple concepts and body movements [...]

What if I told you there is a hidden part of your body that is the difference between life and death? If you ignore it, you may die. If you learn to activate it, you may live longer and better [...]

…A video interview with Herb Kandel, Founder of Acupuncture Center of Santa Maria. Stress? Anxiety? Musculoskeletal pain?… During these strange Covid-19 times, if you or someone you [...]

… if you’ve been sitting too much lately. Stuck on your couch? Here are 3 stretches to do to unwind, what we call in our family, too much time in “lounge butt” mode! Too [...]

The thing I like about the Yoga Warm-ups is that they help release tension from both the body and the mind, leaving you feel less stiff, less stressed and more peaceful.

… whether stuck inside from bad weather, at work… or a global pandemic.  Part 1 of a series of 3: Taking care of yourself during stressful times. With this pandemic, we are all [...]

Tons of people make New Year’s resolutions at this time of year and it’s well known that most people fall off their resolutions very quickly after Jan 01.  So I want to propose 2 simple New [...]

In the PT clinic, we use heat and ice every day, and people ask me all the time whether heat is better or whether they should use ice to decrease pain and speed up healing….  – [...]