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Can't Get Comfortable In Your Chair? Here's What You Can Do Chair design shifted dramatically about a hundred years ago, and it hasn't been good for our backs. Our daily lives are filled with chairs that make our posture worse. Luckily, we've got hacks.

AND....they disrupt the normal developmental process of learning to crawl before walking!

As Injuries Continue, Doctors Renew Call For Ban On Infant Walkers Despite improved safety standards over the years, more than 230,000 children under 15 months old were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to infant walkers from 1990 through 2014.

Craniosacral treatment is extremely helpful if not necessary as well.

Recognizing Signs of a Concussion Concussion symptoms usually appear within minutes of the injury, but some symptoms may take several hours to occur. A headache is the most common complaint of an athlete with a concussion. Any athlete

11 Reasons Your Neck Hurts—and What to Do About It Neck pain causes can be as simple as sleeping funny or as serious as meningitis. Find out more about neck pain causes and neck pain treatment options.

Recognizing Signs of a Concussion Concussion symptoms usually appear within minutes of the injury, but some symptoms may take several hours to occur. A headache is the most common complaint of an athlete with a concussion. Any athlete

Amazing this body of ours...

This is an intact human nervous system that was dissected by 2 osteopathic students in 1925. It took them over 1500 hours. There are only 4 of these in the world.

This one is on display at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University in Kirksville.

The students — M.A. Schalck and L.P. Ramsdell — spent 1,500 hours of their lives completing the painstaking dissection the body's nervous system, beginning at the base of the brain and working downward, leaving the system in one continuous piece.

"Medical students come into the museum and stare at it in amazement," Jason Haxton, director of the museum. "Sometimes, they'll run in after a test to check their work. People familiar with dissection say this is truly a miracle piece."

"After they cleared each nerve, they rolled them in cotton batting soaked in some kind of preservative," Haxton said. (The exact preservative chemicals used are unknown.) "So, as they worked their way down, there was just a mass of little rolls of cotton."

After 1,500 hours of surgery, Schalck and Ramsdell mounted the dissected nervous system on a slab of shellacked wood. They added hundreds of paper labels to the display and exhibited the finished dissection at medical conferences and museums around the country.

Schalck and Ramsdell's nervous system is one of only four such dissections in the world.

Did You Know: The 52 bones in your feet make up one quarter of all the bones in your body. When they are out of alignment, so is the rest of your body.

Foot ailments can become your first sign of more serious medical problems. Your feet mirror your general health, so conditions like arthritis, diabetes, nerve and circulatory disorders can show their initial symptoms in your feet.

Learn more about Osteopathy at: https://www.canadianosteopathy.ca/

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Count the number of hours you sit each day — be honest. A high number could keep you from walking in your older years.

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Good advice

“Think about your shoulder blades like slices of butter melting down your back into your back pocket.”

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Cranio-sacral therapy is very effective as well....

Skull deformations like plagiocephaly, brachycephaly, and scaphocephaly may affect up to 45% of newborn babies.

Canadian Institute of Classical Osteopathy

Anatomy, anatomy, anatomy…the Osteopath’s most important ally! Anatomy is a never-ending exploration for myself and, hopefully, all current and future Osteopaths. The ability to be able to connect seemingly divergent areas in the body to provide solutions to health issues people face requires an in depth knowledge of anatomy…this is said often enough, so let us now illustrate one such POSSIBILITY.

Read it here: https://classicalosteopathyontario.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/how-can-a-sacral-issue-be-a-shoulder-issue-because-functional-anatomy-says-so/

How does the Diaphragm Work? (with pictures)

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Glenfield & Associates Physical Therapy

I'm officially IN in Los Gatos now!

Just a reminder..as of 10/1 I have a new address for treatments...15951 Los Gatos Blvd Suite 14, Los Gatos 95032...-and my days of working will be only Thursday's and Saturdays...8-5... Same phone # ....

Absolutely

Disc bulges and disc degeneration both sound pretty scary but new research is showing that these things are actually very common in people without pain. If your MRI shows something scary don't panic, a physical therapist can help you feel and move better.

We are moving! As of 10/6 I will be working two days a week at 15951 Los Gatos Blvd Suite 14, Los Gatos, Ca 95032. This is a two story brown building across the street from Whole Foods at the intersection of Blossom Hill Road and LG Blvd. The phone number will remain the same...but my new work days will be Thursday and Saturdays, 8-5. We will still be billing United Healthcare, Blue Shield and Medicare, but none others. I will be sharing this room with three other healthcare practitioners , who work on the other days, so there is no space for Frank to work there to answer your insurance, cooking, wine or how-to questions :). You will have to call him on the business number on days other than Thurs/Sat when he will have the business phone available. Will update more as we get closer. I am on the second floor by the way, but there is an elevator if you need it.

Canadian Academy of Osteopathy

Check out this Vertebral Subluxation and Nerve Chart

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Did you know an MRI can be misleading? It's true, many people without pain have strange findings on an MRI. The good news is that if you have a disc bulge or degeneration, physical therapy can help you avoid surgery and get back to the things you love.

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Exactly!

Did you know that people without shoulder pain will often have abnormal findings on an MRI? Howard Luks, a sports medicine physician, explains why you shouldn't rush into advanced imaging here:

http://www.howardluksmd.com/shoulder-pain-2/mri-findings-in-people-with-no-pain/

Canadian Academy of Osteopathy

What Are Cervical Nerves? Via Anatomy In Motion

Cervical nerves are spinal nerves from the first seven vertebrae of the spinal cord. These seven vertebrae, called C1 through C7, begin at the base of the skull and make up the cervical spine in humans and most other mammals. There are eight cervical nerves, designated C1 through C8, with C1 through C7 emerging from above the cervical vertebra of the same number and nerve C8 emerging from below vertebra C7, the furthest from the skull. These nerves are connected to the muscles of the upper body and are among the most important in the nervous system.
Each cervical nerve innervates — stimulates — part of the upper body. Beyond the spine in the peripheral nervous system, these nerves branch, split, and intertwine. C1 through C4 form a structure in the neck called the cervical plexus, while C4 through C8, along with the first thoracic spinal nerve (T1), form the brachial plexus. Therefore, a particular cervical nerve can branch into multiple parts of the body, and a particular part of the body can be connected to more than one cervical nerve.
The head and neck are innervated by cervical nerves C1, C2, and C3. The thoracic diaphragm, a sheet of muscle across the lower rib cage essential to respiration, is innervated by C3, C4, and C5. Nerves C5, C6, C7, and C8, along with T1, split into a series of branches that innervate the arms, hands, and shoulders, as well as some muscles in the thorax.
Some of the nerves that branch off include the great auricular nerve, lesser occipital nerve, and transverse cervical nerve, which provide sensation on different parts of the head and neck, as well as the ansa cervicalis, which connects to the muscles of the neck. The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm. Nerves connecting the cervical spine to the arms, shoulders, and hands include the radial nerve, ulnar nerve, and axillary nerve.
The cervical nerves are essential to sensation and motor control, and damage to them caused by disease or spinal injuries can result in partial or total loss of feeling and mobility in the upper body. It can also affect the autonomic nervous system in the torso, resulting in problems with digestion, respiration, and bowel and bladder control. Injuries at higher vertebrae generally cause greater impairment than injuries at lower vertebrae, and sufficient damage to the higher nerves can result in total quadriplegia — loss of use of all the limbs and the torso. The importance of the thoracic diaphragm to respiration means that a person can no longer breathe independently if the spine is severed above C3, although he or she can be kept alive by a respirator.

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Art by Wataru Yoshida

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Bicycle-related pain and injuries are commonly associated with poor bike fit. If you have pain related specifically to cycling, you might have a bike fit problem. http://bit.ly/1SkOWd6

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Cranial osteopathy worked for my son

Come see us if you would like to give your baby the best start in life as this couple did!

baby.co.uk Shortly after Teddy was born my wife said to me she’d booked in some cranial osteopathy. Having never experienced anything like this, I was keen to find out more, especially if it was going to benefit Teddy. Osteopathy is a way of releasing the stresses, strains and tensions from our bodies that bui…

And sometimes they get all out of whack.....but fortunately manual medicine can help that.....

Did You Know: The adult human body has approximately 230 movable and semi-movable joints.

Your Chair Is Killing You. Here's What You Need To Do To Stop It

npr.org Hint: The answer doesn't revolve around buying more gadgets. Nor does it depend on you dragging yourself to the gym seven nights a week. This calls for a concerted attack — while moving.

Why Knuckles Crack

www.npr.org A little MRI video seems to settle the decades-old debate about that loud pop of the joints: It's all about bubbles. But imagine an air bag inflating, not the bursting of a balloon.

Pregnant and Postpartum Exercise

moveforwardpt.com During pregnancy and childbirth, a woman's body goes through profound changes, and failure to respect those changes, even as athletes, can result in potential p

Great short article in the March Good Housekeeping magazine...just look at those numbers!!

Forget Treadmill Desks: This Device Lets You Surf In Place At Your Standing Desk

This not only looks like FUN....but is good for you!!!!!!

fastcoexist.com And you thought standing was good for you.

Children's Sleep Aid: Roman Chamomile | Feathers in Our Nest

For the parents of my younger clients...a natural sleep aid!!!

feathersinournest.com Roman Chamomile Essential Oil is an effective children's sleep aid and helps kids sleep better and longer at night

It Doesn't Matter How Much You Exercise If You Also Do This

In favor standing workstations....here is a $22 fix....http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html

time.com Your workouts may not mean a lot if you sit too much

We are currently on vacation, and will return Monday January 19th....see you then!

We are open this week Monday all day and Tuesday from 12-5, then closed until next Monday, January 5th. Hope everyone had and will have a peaceful and safe holiday(s) and a joyful new year!