I work with several seniors, and a common problem among them is a torn rotator cuff. Torn rotator cuffs can cause pain, limit mobility, and decrease a person’s quality of life. Some important questions for fitness professionals to ask themselves are what makes seniors susceptible to a rotator cuff tear, how to prevent the pathology from happening , and how to rehabilitate a surgically repaired rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is complex of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus , sub

Phones and Forward Head Posture: Effects on the Cervical Spine Modern technology like smart phones has significantly increased people’s ability to communicate with one another. However, a down side of this communication boom is people experiencing pain in their cervical vertebrae due to excessive Forward Head Posture (FHP). FHP is caused by repetitive and cumulative trauma to the neck, and shoulders, and weakens cervical flexor muscle, the midthoracic rhomboid muscle, and th

From a tensegrity perspective, clinicians know that dysfunction in one area of body is often the cause of pain or injury in another. Radwan et al. (2014) examined the relationship between core instability and shoulder dysfunction. Since the core stabilizes the spine and serves as the base in which the extremities rely on, core stability is important in athletics. Having a stable core allows an athlete to maximize force production, while minimizing stress on the joints (Radwan

The human body is an amazing organism. Like most organic life, a person’s structure follows the principles of biotensegrity, which is the way compressive and tensional forces operate in relationship to form the basis for structures in organic material (Chaitow, 2013). Understanding the principles of biotensegrity, like cells are mechanically stable because of the way their structure and increase in tension in one area of the structure results in increased tension in other a

Lower back pain is a common complaint among clients. The problem with lower back pain is the source of the pain is rarely the actual cause of the pain (Page, Frank, & Lardner, 2010). “Alexis”, a client of mine who is slightly overweight and in her mid-fifties, suffered from mild to severe lower back pain. She had no obvious history of back injury, and spent several hundred dollars a month on temporary relief treatments like acupuncture. After the initial client interview in w