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Preventing Pelvic Floor Leakages (It Ain’t Kegels)

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Christine Ruffolo   My previous post got into the shame and embarrassment that prevents many of us from addressing issues with parts connected to sex or excrement.  This one is more objective, looking at anatomy and physics.  When you seek to understand the why, you must take a deeper look at what is.  The steps […]

Cultivating Tendon Health

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Austin Einhorn   There’s no magic recipe for helping tendons feel better. But there are a few well-studied strategies that make a short list of things to try. My tools are four variables. Load: Light weight for a long time — One to three minutes of tension, per set, 4+ sets. Heavy weight for a […]

Being Half Right

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Christine Ruffolo   I was so close.  I had felt and figured and whittled and realized.  I had my longest running issue narrowed down to a dysfunctional half of the pelvic floor.  It was just the wrong half.  I was convinced that it was my right and gave multiple reasons as to why, BUT my […]

Start with Universe – Structure (Part 2)

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Jordan Terry Part 1 of this series.   “Homeostasis represents a self-organized system derived from the many complex interacting dynamic equilibria necessary to maintain life. Stress initially drives this system toward chaos, but as with all self-organized systems it resists perturbation by generating either short-term compensations (if the initial stressor is resolved) or long-term compensations […]