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How to Get Started with Strength Training

Strength training can help with so many things and it can help everyone. This list isn't just for people who are young or are athletes. In fact, it's extremely important to strength train as we age because it can help prevent against osteoporosis, it can help prevent falls, and it can help keep us active! Here’s how to get started.

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Improve Your Posture — A Few of My Favorite Tips

Sitting or standing with poor posture can lead to rounded shoulders, a forward head, poor core strength, and a neck hump. If you are noticing any of these things, don't worry, because they don't have to be permanent.

I have 5 tips that can really help you improve your posture and decrease any pain, stiffness, or discomfort that you have in your shoulders, neck, or upper back.

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5 of the Best Hip Pain Exercises

Hip Pain is pain around your hip joint and is a very common cause of pain. Hip Pain can be caused by arthritis, bursitis, muscle strains, Iliotibial (IT) Band Syndrome, Piriformis Syndrome, Labral Tears, tendonopathies, fractures, dislocations, impingement and more. Probably the most common causes that I've seen in my practice are tendonopathies, bursitis, arthritis, and IT band syndrome.

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Sacroiliac Joint Rehab

The sacroiliac (SI) joint is where the sacrum (the triangle shaped bone at the base of your spine) meets the pelvis. There are 2 SI joints, one on each side. There are a lot of ligaments and surrounding muscles that reinforce the joints . One of the main functions of these joints is to transfer large forces between the trunk and the legs. Sacroiliac Joint Pain can be caused by a traumatic injury (like a fall), repetitive activities, pregnancy, or may have an unknown cause.

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