We get hip pain from muscles that are out of balance. Walking can help get hip muscles back into balance. Nordic Walking offers support from walking poles.
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Is your posture good or not-so-good? People with poor posture look like they are leaning or collapsing forward. Often their head is way forward in front of their body (“forward head posture.”) The curve in their neck is either too much or too flat, and so is the curve behind their waist. Their shoulders round [...]
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Posted in foot pain, pain relief, posture on Apr 8th, 2009
Can your posture cause pain? Oh Boy! It surely can! In fact, it does. Poor, or collapsed, posture can cause pain in your head, neck, feet, legs, hips, upper and lower back. Why? Because being out of muscular “balance” means that you are using muscles to do the job of bones. With poor posture, your [...]
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There is a set of muscles on each side of your neck that can cause pain in your upper back, arm, wrist and hand. Those muscles are called the scalenes. If the “knot” between your spine and shoulder blade “won’t” go away, blame the scalene muscles. It can’t go away until the scalene muscles are [...]
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