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How to Rake Leaves Safely and Pain Free 

Abbie SawyerYour Best Life

Lots of beautiful leaves falling in your yard calls for more yard work–especially raking! Unfortunately, if you use improper form, raking leaves can leave you with sore shoulders, low back pain, aching knees, muscle strains, and other pains associated with poor raking mechanics.  To help you prepare before tackling that leaf pile, here are five tips to help keep you …

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Posture to Avoid Tech Neck with Your Phone

Abbie SawyerYour Best Life

  View this post on Instagram   Tech neck! Have you ever looked like this first picture of Dr. LoRang, with your neck and upper back craned down to look at your cell phone? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♂️ It’s so easy to do! But it’s so unnatural for your spine. Instead, try bringing your phone up (like photo #2) or leaning forward on …

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Posture to Avoid Tech Neck with Your Computer

Abbie SawyerYour Best Life

  View this post on Instagram   Tech neck, part two! Have you ever looked like Dr. LoRang in photos 1-3? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋🏿‍♂️ Craning our heads forward and down to look at computer screens can wreak havoc on our muscles and spine. Ouch! 🙇🏽‍♀️🙇🏼‍♂️💥🔥🚧🌋⚠️🚫‼️ Instead, try one of the postures Dr. LoRang demonstrates in photos 4-6. Here, the spine and neck …

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5 Tips to Improve Your Posture at Work

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Nearly every day, we talk with people who spend hours a day sitting at their desks. We see the plagues of desk-bound days: the neck pain, tight shoulders, aching backs and even headaches. Our approach is that movement can be medicine. We identify common, predictable biomechanical motor patterns that can put people at risk for certain types of pain – even when it looks …

Posture and Back Pain: 5 Tips for Surviving Desk Culture

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If you’re like many people, you may spend hours every day sitting at a desk – or sitting in a car, or on a couch, or at a kitchen table. And as we sit – even though it looks like we’re doing very little – through our inactivity and posture, we can actually be causing ourselves harm. Consequences of sitting …