Glutes and Gait
As a podiatrist, I find that most patients present with a range of foot and lower leg issues – heel pain, Achilles Tendinopathy, Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome, Shin Splints and Patellofemoral Joint Pain are all common presentations to my clinic. Given these injuries and issues affect the foot and lower leg, both referrers and patients alike assume that the cause of these issues are located primarily in the foot. This assumption is simply not true. Of those people experiencing the injuries mentioned above the vast majority have issues at the hip and pelvis level, and the glutes…
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Early Recognition and Intervention of Eating Disorders
There is a misconception that eating disorders are only prevalent among people who are extremely underweight and female. This way of thinking presents two problems. ..
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TRAIN YOUR CYCLING SPRINT
I have had a lot of cyclists tell me that they have a bad sprint. They say they never win sprints and don’t have fast twitch muscles capable of doing the job. My question to these cyclists is always the same, “Have you actually trained your sprint?” While a few uber lucky individuals have a natural talent for sprinting and placement in the peloton, the other 99% of us need to learn how. Therefore, my mantra is, ‘what isn’t natural can be taught’…
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Can Hypnosis Help with Fears and Phobias?
Fear, described as an unpleasant emotion caused by a thought that something may be a threat of danger, pain, or harm. This thought may not be even a real situation, only an imagined situation and often completely irrational. Yet it is so powerful that it changes the heart rate, causes sweating and heaving breathing and can escalate into a panic attack or a person literally freezing up.
