Do you own a loofah?

Dry skin brushing using a very light touch, from the feet up the legs to the trunk and from the hands up the arms to the trunk is enough to help increase lymph flow.

Especially after traveling that requires many hours in a car or on an airplane, my ankles swell up for a couple of days.   I drink more than my regular amount of water while traveling and do ankle rotations, walk arounds, ...

Sternocleidomastoid(SCM) and Scalene(s)

Does your neck ever feel so stiff that you can picture a bowling ball stuck on top of a broom handle and not much movement in that scenario?  I certainly was one of those.

One of the main reasons I began getting regular massage was for a ‘stiff neck’ resulting in discomfort, pain and headaches.  The neck is a critical structure of the body allowing head rotation side to side, forward and backward flexion and extension.  The sternocleidomastoid ...

We use our hands to perform hundreds of tasks each day such as washing, getting dressed, cooking, working, lifting objects, holding items..  There are numerous small detail muscles in the hands.  Certainly compared to the large muscle groups of the body such a quadriceps the hands don’t take up much real estate.  However, when the hand does not open widely or close easily many of those hundreds of tasks done daily can not be completed in a satisfactory manner.

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What a pain in the butt!  Literally.

I have experienced the piriformis syndrome myself. I had been doing an exercise boot camp.   My body loved the intense workouts.   I was probably two months in to the boot camp.   One Sunday morning I woke up with hot shooting pain down both legs.   It was excruciating.   I had no idea what it was or what caused it.  A trip to the emergency room netted me some muscle relaxers but did nothing to ...