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Did you know that late afternoon or early evening is the best time to go shopping for a shoe? Or buying shoes that are too tight with the hope that they will expand with time may rob you of more than just your frequent smiles? Or many people have one foot bigger than the other,…

The term play is almost non-existent to adults simply because they think it is childish and they have grown out of it. In my own thoughts I define play as a way to keep your body from not forgetting specific function from either a muscle or joint. It also shapes the brain and the nervous system…

Childhood is defined as the age span from birth to adolescent where WHO subdivides childhood comprising of an Infant who is a child younger than one year and an adolescent being a child aged 10 to 19 years. Interestingly there has been a global noted increased level of physical inactivity among this age span that…

Other than July being the month of our Kenyan winter – we even have icy roads to show for it now – it is juvenile arthritis awareness month. Like most of you, I just recently became aware of this – the juvenile arthritis part that is. If you are as curious as I am you are…

Standing is a natural human posture and by itself poses no particular health hazard. However, working in a standing position on a regular basis can cause sore feet, swelling of the legs, varicose veins, general muscular fatigue, low back pain, stiffness in the neck and shoulders and other health problems.The layout of the workstation will…

The muscle I think is most appropriate to talk about is the iliopsoas. For the people who sit for long periods in the; office, cars or in public service vehicles this muscle group tends to shorten. The psoas muscle can be one of the causes for either low back, hip or groin pain. The iliopsoas…

Back pain is increasing among the world population despite the money, technology, research, medication, restriction, devices, surgeries and plain right ignorance to blame the back alone for the pain. However In a world of great innovations, why are our bodies claiming to be weak and feeble? Why are we still so far from the answers yet…

In a previous article, we talked about painful backs due to lifting weights. We promised to share with you some of the rules which you should take into consideration to avoid these back injuries. We will share with you three of these rules; keeping your chest forward, leading with the hips and not the shoulders, and…

Most of the time we either feel some tension or pain in our bodies and we tend to grin or whence, sometimes both. We may also be busy and far from a physical therapy clinic for help.The pain could be either on the neck, upper shoulders, in between the scapula, low back and even leg…