Sitting at a desk can increase back and neck pain, especially if you’re not moving around often — the muscles can start to stiffen from lack of blood flow. These simple exercises help to stretch out the muscles to reduce neck pain and decrease stiffness and soreness. For the first stretch, raise your right arm […]

Stretching and strengthening the muscles in your legs and back are two ways to reduce low back pain. This standing gluteal stretch helps to release the tension in the hamstrings and the gluteal muscles in the buttocks that can get tight from prolonged sitting. Try to do this stretch regularly, as well as taking the […]

As a chiropractor, it has become clear to me how important correct posture is in preventing pain, especially the neck and back pain many people seek treatment for. Dr. Eric Goodman, the founder of Foundation Training, talks about posture and why it’s important in this short informative video. Foundation Training encourages strengthening and stretching to […]

For those who have desk jobs, sitting can be very detrimental to lower back health — by maintaining a sitting position for multiple hours every day, you cause some muscles to contract and others to relax. However, the lack of variation in those movements or counter-stretches or positions leads to tightness, and, ultimately, pain. Part […]

For people who work at a computer especially, neck pain is a very common reality. It happens primarily from maintaining bad posture for hours, including sitting slouched over with your head jutting out, causing the muscles in your neck to tighten to try and hold your head up. Additionally, this slouching position makes the front […]