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Staying hydrated during travel is one of the most important things we can do to arrive happier, healthier, and taller!

👉🏻 Here’s why:

✈️ controlled air in planes is much lower in humidity than our typical outside environment (10-20% humidity vs 35-65%, and even higher if you live in Florida like me where it’s the air that you wear!)

• lower humidity dries out our tissues and nasal passages, potentially creating micro cracks where viruses can find an entry point.

• Staying hydrated helps keep not only our skin to be more plump and resilient, it helps the DISCS IN OUR SPINE be more plump and resilient, too!

• Did you know one of the best reservoirs from where the body “borrows” water when it’s dehydrated is the spine?! All those discs between our vertebrae are like little sponges!

💦 Dehydration can cause muscle cramps, gut cramps, abdominal pain, muscle tightness, fatigue, dizziness, crankiness, reduced focus, and certainly increases our risk for kidney stones, UTIs and more.

📱Travel delays and long flights usually equate to more screen time, which adds to dry eyes! So be sure to drink up when screen’s up!

👉🏻 Take the edge off by adding an electrolyte supplement and *starting to boost hydration 24 hrs before travel*

👩🏽‍🔬Generally speaking, the Aerospace Medical Association (who knew there was such a thing?!) recommends drinking ~.25 litres per hour of flying.

🤯 By the time we realize we’re thirsty, we’re already dehydrated!

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Remember:
Wheels up, drink up! 💙✈️

Manage back pain on the fly ✈️ with this idea!

Traveling light is paramount - no one wants to schlep pillows and pads in their carry-ons, so those who depend on such props usually leave them at home - but not their fears of back pain (I hear it all the time from patients!)

What’s a spine to do?

• That sweatshirt or light jacket you brought can be a great substitute! 💡

• Simply pack it into your carry-on instead of checked luggage so you can have it at the ready.

• placing it behind your back can be GOLD for people who tend to have swayback (of my patients who have back pain, it’s NOT the scoliosis contributing to their pain, but their trunk’s tendency to lean back behind their hips that I find is the most consistent presentation and contributor to low back pain! 🤯)

• placing the folded sweatshirt behind our back can help keep the trunk from “swaying back” as much when leaning back into the chair. 💙

• alternately, using it under the hips can be super relief for those with sciatica! 😌

So, fear not and (pack a sweatshirt in your) carry on! Let me know if this idea helps.
More to come on SWAYBACK!

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✈️🚞🚙 Wishing you safe, seamless, and easy holiday travels!

This post, and flight, we’re
But big thanks to Dan for his patience and arm strength holding the camera!

🌈 Marshmallows, cookies and a little bit of physics! I love the term resilience.

It’s such a key element in our mental well-being and ability to enjoy life, but resilience isn’t just limited to psychology - it’s also a key element in our physical body and our tissues’ ability to rebound from physical stress, too.

One of the most wonderful aspects of being in the field of physiotherapy and scoliosis and spine health are the truly wonderful people in this specialty.

Brilliant research from Dr Rene Castelein and others around the world have recently found what Dr Adams hypothesized two centuries ago - that the flexible, postural component of scoliosis and hyperkyphosis directly and significantly impacts the bony, fixed structural component.

Both Dr Castelein, researches in China, and others found that it’s not necessarily the vertebrae to become wedged first when our posture goes south - it’s actually the discs that get wedged first before progressive structural changes begin.

While every spine varies in its presentation, the take home message is clear - your mom was right! Sitting and standing tall are so much more important than we truly appreciated.

But sometimes, when we have scoliosis, hyperkyphosis or osteoporosis, we already ARE standing tall - or at least trying our best. This is where schroth and PSSE come in to save our sanity.

💡By understanding the physics of postural asymmetries, we help people understand their unique curve pattern or spinal imbalance so they have the length and strength
to stand their tallest - to actively decompress the spine and promote resiliency in the tissues and the mind.

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👉🏻 More great stuff coming soon as we launch the Physiolutions website next week 🎉. Check back here, and follow us on IG and YouTube for more spine smart and healthy tips!

👉🏻What on earth is “Rotational Angular Breathing?”

🫁 Rotational Angular Breathing, “RAB”, developed by Katharina Schroth over 100 years ago, is one of the key facilitation strategies in creating change from the inside out when working with scoliosis.

When RAB is applied in conjunction with other key strategies, everything comes together in the most magnificent way.

Just like a great recipe, all of
the components need to come together, in the right order, for everything to click!

This is why I LOVE teaching and working with scoliosis and spinal conditions❤️

When you can see the physics and energetics of how something works from the inside out, you know how to optimize your approach to create REAL change.

Just finished teaching SSOL Schroth P1 certification course - physical therapists can join me for the next certification course December 5-12 in Florida 🌴☀️💪🏼

🧠 Curious to learn more?
Check link in bio for more courses!

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