Help Me Help You: How One Wellness Professional Empowers Her Clients to Help Themselves (Video)
By shifting from prescriptive teaching to empowerment teaching, author Michelle Pitman helps clients take healing and pain relief into their own hands.
Conditioning Deep Calf Muscles for Maneuvering Across Lumps and Bumps!
In part 1 of this article, I explained some causes and symptoms of trigger points in the deep calf muscle trio of tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and flexor hallicus longus (FHL). One common contributor is walking or running on…
Delving Deep into the Calf
Many people are aware of their larger, more superficial calf muscles, gastrocnemius and soleus. But what about the smaller, deeper and less known calf muscles? What is their purpose, and what are the symptoms when they aren’t functioning properly? Today I…
Walking from Philly..to Los Angeles
While travel can be exciting and fun, it also is a break in our movement routine. Regardless of if you sit during the day, travel requires you to be seated for hours on end. Over the last Thanksgiving weekend I did…
Are Your Shoes Walking You?
A world of potential for movement resides in our feet, yet how much are we really using? Let’s check in: Remove your shoes and take a quick walk around the room. While walking, notice which part of your foot lands and…
Hit the Road…with your Balls!
Earlier this week, I wrote about a few different reasons why traveling can cause annoying aches and pains. Curious how to combat and potentially even prevent these annoyances? I’ll cut straight to the chase – I travel with balls. In my…
Part 2: Big Toe Extension and Ron Burgandy – the Connection
In my last article, we learned about big toe extension and the one and only muscle that does this, the extensor hallucis longus (the EHL). We learned how a limited range of motion of the EHL can, over time, have disastrous…
Biggus Dealius: Extensor Hallucis Longus
trans: The Big Deal of the Big Toe Extensor Imagine not being able to lift your big toe. No. Don’t imagine. Stand up right now – we’re going experiential – and attempt to walk across the room without allowing your big…
Not All Calf Stretches Are Created Equal – How To Target Your Soleus Muscle for a Better Squat
In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the relationship between how flexible our calves are and how well we can squat. We learned that a healthy, full squat requires a good amount of dorsiflexion at the ankle joint and…
Avoid a Calf-tastrophe
On Wednesday, I wrote about how lack of strength and suppleness in my gastrocnemius landed me straight onto the couch with an injury and off the running track. Once I was able to run again without any discomfort, which was a about…