The 15 Point Ergonomic Checklist This is how to set up your workspace properly: 1. Sit right back in your chair so that your back rest supports your pelvis at belt level 2. Chair size: If your chair touches the back of your knees, the chair is too big for you. 3. If your chair can’t slid…
Desk chair office routine Sitting in front of the computer all day is a very common cause of back pain, neck pain and fatigue, so try to get up every hour to walk around (walk while talking on the phone) and do these exercises regularly… Chin Tucks Plus with Wrist Extension: This first exercise…
Improve Forward Head Posture Chin tucks are considered by many as the most important exercise to improve forward neck posture. But there is one big issue with them: their effectiveness is very dependent on the position of mid back as you do them. So here are some tweaked versions to maximise the effectiveness of a…
Relieve A Stiff Back With A Pulsating Massage Gun Pulsating massage guns can be quite useful for mid and lower back pain & stiffness. The vibrations increase blood flow to the muscles of the back and glutes, but they also stimulate movement receptors in the joints. Triggering these receptors causes a reflex relaxation of the…
Percussion massage guns are quick way to release knotted shoulders Percusssion massage guns are a great way to release tight knotted shoulder because they relax muscles and the vibration can help to loosen restricted spinal joints. But they can increase inflammation so they are not a good idea in every case. And there are some…
How can a percussion massage gun help an inflamed AC joint? If your AC (acromio-clavicular) joint is constantly bothering you there is normally two things at play… (i)Poor thoracic and shoulder posture can increase the forward tilt of you shoulder blade, causing torsion on the AC joint, or (ii) if your SC (Sterno-clavicular) joint is…
The Best Exercises To Manage A Scoliosis What are the signs of a scoliosis? high shoulder prominent ribs leg length discrepancy shoulder blade prominence high hip Can exercise help scoliosis? Eighty percent of all scoliosis are “Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis”. The spine starts to curve in the early teenage years as it grows, but once we…
Golfer’s Elbow Exercises (Medial Epicondylitis) Golfer’s elbow causes pain and tightness on the inside of the elbow. It’s the result of inflammation of the flexor tendon where it attaches to the medial epicondyle. Sometimes it causes grip pain or hand weakness, and occasionally numbness/tingling into the little finger and ring finger. If the pain is…
Avoid Trigger Points In Your Shoulders With These 4 Changes The key to fix chronic muscle knots at the base of your neck is to avoid the four causes of static tension in the shoulder muscles. You see, muscles like to be constantly moving—stretching and contracting. But when they’re tense but not moving, they give…
Use gravity to HELP your posture It’s the weight of our head, under gravity, that pulls our head forward and creates our terrible forward head posture. But if we move things around we can actually get gravity working for us… making lying in bed on a Sunday morning suddenly quite proactive. One great exercises…
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