My Top 5 Books On Health and Fitness

April 17, 2012

I read a lot.  I love to read about health, self development and exercise and I have over 700 books.  I can’t remember the last time I read a fictional book.  It isn’t that I don’t like fiction, it’s just that I can’t seem to get past the health, nutrition, exercise and self help section.  Every book […]

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Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

April 16, 2012

I, Wendy Schauer, am a shoe addict.   Here is my shoe story. I was a normal shoe buyer until I started working out with ketttlebells.  Working out with kettlebells requires that you wear flat soled shoes so you can be more stable on the ground.  Since I only had one pair of athletic shoes that weren’t kettlebell […]

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The Kettlebell Swing

April 15, 2012

In early 2000, I injured my lower back, repetitive use injury from bending over people day after day.  I did everything I could think of to rehab it.  Yoga, TaiChi, weight lifting, Pilates…. but my back just kept getting more painful and weaker.  I spent almost a year living in a lumbar support so that […]

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Lower Back Pain and Poor Sitting Posture

April 14, 2012

My previous blog posts targeted the slouched shoulders and hunched upper back due to bad computer posture.  Although doing the shown exercises will help a bit with the lower back, they are not enough.  If you look at a person from the side, the spine will have three curves.  The neck has a inward curve, […]

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Wall Slide Exercise

April 13, 2012

In my last post I described the wall slide exercise for upper/middle back strength.  This is the first exercise I give people to start strengthing their back to counteract computer posture.  Michael Walker at www.thornesmithblog.com requested more information about this exercise.  Here is a video demonstration. Yours In Health! Dr. Wendy

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Quick And Easy Stretches To Do At Your Workstation

April 12, 2012

In my last blog post I showed you what bad computer posture looked like and what it could lead to over time.  I had a new patient in today who, unfortunately, was a perfect example of what I wrote about in that post.  There was prolonged computer use with the shoulders and head forward that […]

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Why Is Bad Posture So Bad?

April 10, 2012

Sitting at a computer is one of the worst things you can do for your back.  Even with great posture, sitting puts the most amount of pressure on the discs in the lower back.  Unfortunately, I haven’t seen to many people with great posture.  Take a look at your co-worker in the next cubicle.  I would […]

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How To Walk Properly

April 10, 2012

  How to walk properly? Don’t you just put one foot in front of the other over and over again? It does seem simple doesn’t it? For some reason many of us don’t do it right.  I have many patients, myself included, who use the front of their legs(quadriceps) dominantly to walk, run, bike, exercise…  […]

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Sinusitis and Congestion

April 8, 2012

If any of you who read my blog live in the Pacific Northwest I would presume that you either have or know someone who has had chronic sinus congestion. I myself live with chronic congestion.  It has been a part of me since 1987 when I worked in a moldy office.  I worked in an office that had once been […]

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Easter Candy

April 7, 2012

Here we are again… at a holiday where candy seems to be the center of attention.  The amount of sugar we eat between Halloween and Easter is astronomical.  It starts with the “mini” candy bars that we eat at Halloween.  We buy the bag early to get the good deal but we end up eating the bag […]

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