Your mom was right: You ll look better and feel great if you stop slouching and stand up straight. Yoga can help you do just that—in a way that honors your spine s natural curves. Here s a guide to assessing and improving your posture. Your mom was right: You ll look better and feel great if you stop slouching and stand up straight. Yoga can help you do just that…
While it s often completely dismissed or just mistaken as upper back pain, middle back pain relates to inflammation surrounding the thoracic region of the spine. Running from the base of your neck to the bottom of your rib cage, the thoracic spine doesn t move very much, explains Russel C. Huang, MD, an orthopedic spine surgeon with the Hospital for Special Surgery…
INSTAGRAM Pixie Lott showed how flexible she was in a racy bikini snap The 26-year-old popstar flaunted her enviably trim semi-naked body in a polka dot two-piece as she appeared to defy physics, sitting by the side of a pond and arching her back as she simultaneously placed the top of her head on the floor behind her. Pixie s slender pins were on full display in…
If you are in pain from spinal stenosis, you probably don t even want to think about exercising. You should certainly avoid any activities that put too much stress on your spine (contact sports, for example). At the same time, you shouldn t stop exercising all together because healthy, strong muscles offer more support to your back. Plus, if you don t move at all—if…
Hot yoga is the general term for yoga performed in a climate-controlled studio with the heat and humidity jacked up to tropical intensity. The original hot yoga, Bikram, cranks it up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit and throws in a bonus of 40 percent humidity so you really feel like you re in the south of India. Other hot yoga studios may not be as extreme, but the theory…
Why does stretching the hamstrings relieve lower back pain? Hamstring stretches are among the most important of all stretches to relieve lower back pain. The reason? Tight hamstrings can fix the bottom of the pelvis from normal free movement. This fixing,or lack of movement, can exert strain in the muscles of the lower back. In addition, tight hamstrings can, in…
Any successful team knows that keeping track of everyone’s work is essential to finish a project. Adding efficient and detailed time tracking to the process will make sure that no minute of your precious time gets lost. We have been working hard to integrate Timeneye with several productivity tools that help teams keeping track of their work. And today, we hare happy…
The lower back is a common area of pain and discomfort, especially as we get older. Lower back pain affects most of us at some point in our lives. Its prevalence is increasing, due to the growing need for desk jobs, longer work days, less down time, more stress and anxiety, more travel and improper nutrition. However, if you learn how to take care of your back, you…
THIS WILL HELP TOO The lower back, or the lumbar region, can be an area that often gets sensitive for most of us at some point in our lives. Whether we have to sit a lot during the day, or whether we move a lot, the lumbar region can get affected. In any case, pain in the lower back can seriously affect your mood and your day. Yoga can offer a great relief for the…
The consensus is overwhelming: we ve got a back pain problem in the US. Millions of adults suffer from chronic pain that can seem incurable. We dove into that world today on our air: from treatment to surgery and more. We were joined by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, author of a new book on the topic, and Dr. Carol Hartigan, medical director of the Spine Center and the Spine…
If you re like most people, you probably spend a decent amount of time sitting during the day. Unless you have perfect posture, pressure increases on your spine with prolonged sitting. This can lead to tight muscles in your upper- and mid-back. Perform stretches to decrease tightness in these muscles. Read more: Why is Posture Important? Perform stretches during the…
Bikram’s Authentic Hatha yoga postures known to the masters of India have been used as physical therapy and medical treatment for many chronic diseases and pathologies suffered by all our world’s citizens. Bikram Yoga is a science of the body’s ecology. The twenty-six postures exercises systematically move fresh oxygenated blood to one hundred percent of your body…
This past year, I returned to teaching yoga after a nearly two-year hiatus while I recuperated from a painful back injury: a bulging disk at L5-S1, which was further complicated by a very inflamed sacroiliac joint. How did the injury happen? In brief, because I did not listen to my body when it was telling me the low back was stressed out. You would think a yoga instructor…
Photo Salazar: I would say I’m a 7 out of 10 on the flexibility scale. Credit Danielle Levitt for The New York Times According to Black, a number of factors have converged to heighten the risk of practicing yoga. The biggest is the demographic shift in those who study it. Indian practitioners of yoga typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life, and yoga…
Standing Forward Fold with Easy Twist: From forward fold, soften your right knee, place your right fingertips on the ground in front of you, and lift your left arm to the ceiling. Breathe, feeling your spine lengthen from your tailbone to the crown of your head, and if it feels nice to lean back, go for it. Stay for five deep breaths and repeat on the other side…
You may work to sculpt strong arms or legs, but how often do you think about strengthening your spine? It’s natural to gravitate toward activities that give you results you can see, but neglecting this part of your body could contribute to poor posture, back pain or—over time—arthritis, osteoporosis or immobility. The spine is not a muscle, but you can give it healthy…
