Inflammatory and Allergy Foods

Here is where your food can truly become medicine. Inflammation builds up in us from our food, chemicals, etc. and turns into free radicals that terrorize each blood cell and make them unable to fight disease and lead to early signs of aging. While we cannot completely eliminate inflammatory foods from our nutrition plans, we [...]

5 Tips for Relieving Back Pain

If you have been sitting for longer than 5 minutes, make sure you do some back extension movements before you lift things, i.e. boxes, kids, groceries. This will help push the discs away from the spinal cord and create space for safer movement. Prop yourself up on your elbows while lying on your stomach a few [...]

Low Back School: Lesson 2

Sitting and Low Back Pain One of the biggest contributers to low back pain (LBP) is prolonged and repetitive sitting. Lesson 2 offers a simple remedy to prevent and improve LBP. Just follow these easy tips, stretches and movements to a life with much less pain and even increased energy from a more efficient body. Meet [...]

Low Back School: Lesson 1

This is the first of many posts on low back pain that goes hand in hand with Exercise Progression’s Low Back School. Please note that these are not just general opinion’s on low back pain (LBP). Everything here is based on Chris Hallford’s book, Exercise Progression for Low Back Disorders – A Professional’s Manual, over 18 [...]