Sunday, September 15, 2013  Why is this chair in my living room?
...because it's too nice and awesome to be out on the back deck!
Frequently, clients ask me what are some things that they can do
during the course of their busy day to alleviate neck, shoulder,
low back, and hip pain in between massage therapy sessions.
 Many of these clients are workers whose jobs require them to
spend long hours sitting at a desk performing various tasks at a
computer.  And as you may have guessed, sitting long hours in
hip flexion can produce chronic muscle tension and pain all over
the body.  As Dr. Natalie Thomas, DPT of In Motion O.C. in
Irvine California states,  "Prolonged sitting shortens the hip
flexors, the muscles in the front of the hips. When you stand,
these shortened muscles change the position of the pelvis… so
the spine, which connects to the pelvis, becomes compromised…
the chain of imbalances continues up the spine to the neck… and
the head juts forward as the body tries to balance itself.  The
body was no