When you are in acute low-back pain – when your back is locked down and your pain level is a 9 out of 10 – can massage help? The short answer: Yes. Massage can definitely help. I have many clients who benefit greatly from regular massage to help keep their backs healthy and from treatment […]
The Self-Healing Mind Trick for Low-Back Pain
Low-back pain sucks! Its insidious persistence annoys you. The way it saps your vitality is disheartening. You just want to get back to your normal, pain-free life. It frustrates your doctor, who can offer only pain medications and educated guesses as to when it might pass. The very nature of low-back pain can lock your […]
Lessons from a Low-Back Pain Episode
My path to a massage career began with recurring bouts of severe low-back pain many years ago. I would routinely get clobbered by episodes of pain that would put me in bed for days at a time. One of the reasons I ended up in bed is because that’s what my doctor recommended. Back then, […]
Progressive Reengagement
You’ve probably heard of progressive relaxation. It’s a guided exercise that has you tour your body from the tips of the toes to the top of your head, progressively letting go of tension. After sitting at a desk or in front of the TV for a few hours, you might want to try the opposite. […]
The Definitive Guide to Actual Famous Standing Desk Users
Did Da Vinci Really Use a Standing Desk? Probably Not. But Plenty of Other Famous People Did and Do. You know that thing where a plausible-sounding but demonstrably false idea takes on a life of its own and becomes conventional wisdom? It would appear that this phenomenon is afflicting the lore around famous standing-desk users. […]
ErgoExpo 2015 Conference Wrap-Up
ErgoExpo was hopping this year. Here’s my report. Conference Organizers I had a press pass to cover ErgoExpo, so I was able to use the conference speakers’ lounge as my base of operations. At lunch in the lounge on the first day of the conference, I butted into an interesting conversation in the serving line […]
Joan Vernikos Keynote ErgoExpo 2015: “Gravity Is Your Friend!”
The highlight of the ErgoExpo conference in Las Vegas last week (Nov. 17-20) for me was the keynote address by former NASA Life Science’s Director Joan Vernikos. Joan guided NASA research on biology at NASA for 15 years. Among her many accomplishments there was helping to ensure that John Glenn could return to space at […]
Corporate Wellness Programs: Carrots, Sticks, and Productivity
A recent New York Times article on corporate wellness programs, “The Sticks and Carrots of Employee Wellness Programs,” brings up some interesting issues around cost-shifting and privacy breaches. And this discussion has got me wondering about whether companies and employees should even be in the health-care administration business. Is Your Employer Trying to Get You […]
Sitting Disease Research Takes a Surprising Turn
A study published online by the International Journal of Epidemiology seems to upend some of the conventional wisdom on sitting disease research. The study found no link between sitting and “all-cause mortality” (the likelihood of dying of any cause). Several earlier studies found a relationship independent of other physical activity between sitting and diseases like […]
Personal Wellness vs. Corporate Wellness
I use the phrase “personal wellness” a lot. It’s a term that is necessary only because so many people have come to regard the term “wellness” as synonymous with the “corporate wellness” program that their employer provides. Here’s how the terms compare: Personal Wellness Corporate Wellness intrinsic – driven by you and your needs and goals […]
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