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4 Signs You Need to Take a Fitness Break
You’re willing to push yourself, even when it hurts. You know how to tough it out, even when you’re tired. But do you know when to back off — and why? Here’s what all fitness buffs need to know about giving their bodies a break.
How Feldenkrais Enhances Healing and Performance
Athletes and people with injuries are (finally) discovering the Feldenkrais Method: a gentle rehabilitation system that teaches the body to move as it should.
How to Fix Hypermobile Shoulders
Poor stability in your shoulder joints can cause pain at the source set you up for trouble throughout the kinetic chain. Here’s how to correct common problems.
Give Yourself a Break:
How Embracing Downtime Boosts Creativity
Smart, super-practical reasons to build more idleness, downtime, and moments of enjoyment into your busy life.
Could Your Hips Be Causing Your Knee and Low-Back Pain?
Lower-back pain? Knee strain? The problem could be in your hips. Here’s how to keep them flexible and strong.
How to Improve Ankle Mobility
Immobile ankles can cause shin splints, knee injuries and even lower-back pain. Here’s how to improve ankle mobility and prevent an unwanted kinetic shock wave.
How to Exercise When You Have Chronic Pain
If you suffer from chronic pain, working out may be the last thing you feel like doing. But exercise can make you feel better – now, and over the long term.
3 Exercises to Relieve Grip Pain from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
It’s not just desk jockeys who suffer from repetitive-strain injuries. They can strike even superfit athletes. Here’s how to prevent and treat them.
3 Exercises for an Immobile Thoracic Spine
Immobility in your thoracic spine can send pain into your shoulders, neck or lower back. Here’s how to correct the problem.
How to Prevent Muscle Cramps and Side Stitches
Cramps and side stitches can derail any workout. Here’s how to treat and prevent these painful contractions.
What Is the Graston Technique?
Feeling a little stiff after surgery? Suffering from a sports injury and need to get back in the game 10 minutes ago? The Graston Technique could be just the thing to untangle your tissue.
Creak, Crackle, Pop!: Why Do My Joints Make Noise?
What is that sound coming from your joints, and should you be concerned? Find out what’s normal, and what you might want to get checked out.
What Is Muscle Activation Technique (MAT)?
Bothered by muscle tightness, soreness and strain? A hands-on, biomechanics-based treatment called MAT can soothe discomfort, improve alignment and ward off injury.
How to Prevent Lower-Back Pain from Spreading Throughout the Body
To deal with stubborn back pain, look to your local lumbar stabilizers for answers.
On the Comeback Trail
Despite intense preparation and a maximum effort, your competitive season didn’t go as planned. How do you recoup and regroup?
On a Roll: The Benefits of Foam Rolling
Using foam rollers can help relieve myofascial pain and increase flexibility. Best of all? They’re really easy to use.
How to Exercise With Knee and Hip Pain
Pain in your hips or knee joints may cause you to shy away from exercise, but there are ways to work around (or through) the condition – without sacrificing your fitness.
Tips and Strategies for Improving Your Posture
Bad posture doesn’t just look bad. It can also compromise your workouts, undermine your health and contribute to injuries. Here’s how to straighten up.
Correcting Muscle Imbalances: 4 Exercises to Combat the Effects of Sitting All Day
Muscle imbalances caused by too much sitting, typing and monitor gazing can set up chronic problems throughout the body. Are work-related imbalances throwing your body out of whack?
Are Women More Prone to Knee Injuries?
If you’re an active woman you may be at greater risk for knee injury than your male counterparts. Learn how to protect one of your body’s most valuable joints.
Expert Advice to Keep Your Neck Pain-Free
A chronic case of computer neck can undermine your work and your workouts. So don’t sit and suffer. Start getting the kinks out – now.