Normal adults begin to lose muscle mass after age 30 at a rate of approximately 3-5% per decade if we are relatively inactive- the old adage of use it or lose it certainly rings true in this instance. Obviously there are lots of other risk-factors associated with falls...
Heaps of people come to yoga classes because they have low back pain and someone, often their GP, has told them it might help. It seems to be taken as fact that yoga must be good for backs and especially those in pain but this is based on a lot of assumptions such as s...
Lots of people, when they come for physio or join a class tell me they 'HATE' exercising and fairplay! It took me a while myself to figure out to how pick activities that I actually enjoyed instead of forcing myself through an exercise I hated.
Our body is not a machine or a vehicle. If something goes awry it does not sit there inert waiting for a fix. It immediately responds. It uses an intricate network of nerve endings to alert your brain and spinal cord that something is amiss.
Acceptance of pain is also linked to lower self-rated pain intensity, less depression and anxiety, better work status and greater physical and social ability
