These deep muscles , especially the Tibialis posterior, the Flexor Digitorum Longus and the Flexor hallucis Longus, hardly ever feature prominently in anyone’s mind, let alone in a exercise program. As desk jockeys that use shoes all the time, and are allergic to walking barefoot, these muscles of yours are in pathetic shape. They’re tight […]
Month: December 2019
Fighting the foetal position
The picture above is by Leonardo Da Vinci. It’s a drawing of the foetal position in the womb. We all start this way. Quite a few of us end up this way towards the final years of our lives, as dementia ,strokes and just plain time, takes it’s toll on our nervous systems. Some of […]
Pandiculation
Pandiculation. This article is a good read. Body Elation with Body Pandiculation What I’d like to say is, however, that the exercises you’ll find in a Kalari or Akhara are all extensions of the above principle. Doing them with proper form, down to eye movement and breath control will provide a neural reset that fixes […]
Keep calm and shut up
It should ideally be shut your mouth, and keep calm, but then, the meme would get dismembered. This is about mouth breathing and mouth breathers( and how they’re unable to keep calm) The nose, the back of the mouth (oropharynx), the windpipe (pharynx) and the lungs (with the airways in them) take and give inputs […]
Oral hygiene and general health
Dental hygiene and heart disease The mouth, more specifically, the areas around the teeth are ideal for bacteria to hang around. Warm, moist, with a constant supply of food. Some of these bacteria are harmless, some of them are extremely bad news. They are implicated in heart disease mainly by causing a low level bacteraemia(bacteria […]
Shoulder pain, is a pain in the neck
You’ve got shoulder pain. You’ve had scans. You’re told that there’s a rotator cuff injury. You’re told that its not going to heal on it’s own. You’re told that the only way they can fix it, is by surgery. They’re right. The rotator cuff tear isn’t going to fix itself. You’re going to have to […]
The fountain of youth.
People are scared of dying. A phobia of mortality. We could discuss this for years and not come to a consensus as to why that is so. Not everyone is frightened of death. Why is that? Who are those people? What do they do different? What would make me feel not afraid to die? Youth […]
Cooks, bakers and chefs
Came across this concept in the Joe Rogan podcast with Andy Galpin, who’s a sports physiologist. Great episode. He used the terms cooks, bakers and chefs to describe people who are on diets and on fitness programs. Cooks. -people who like making their own recipes, after they’ve been given an outline of the basic concepts. […]
Core training.
Most people think of planks and crunches when they think about training the core. The midsection, the core, the lumbar and lower Thoracic spine with all the surrounding muscles of the hip and the diaphragm need to do more than just hold in a static position for a few seconds. A crunch or a plank […]
Questions and answers. For doctors and patients.
Treating a shoulder pain. How hard can it be? Give the guy a combination of NSAIDs and add a proton pump inhibitor for the inevitable acidity that will follow the painkillers. You could also add a muscle relaxant of you think there’s an element of spasm involved. That’s it, right? Why is this damn doctor […]