03 Feb Cat Cow – Distraction
HOW: Place your hands against an elevated surface, lean into the surface so that most of your body weight is in your arms. Then perform the traditional cat cow by arching and tucking your tailbone. FEEL: This should feel like a global stretch to...
30 Dec Child’s Pose
HOW: Begin on your hands and knees. Push back into a child’s pose, round your back within your tolerance. Focus on bringing your butt as far back as possible, ideally, your butt will touch your heels while dropping your chest towards the floor. Keep...
30 Dec Child’s Pose – Sideways Reach
HOW: Begin on your hands and knees. Push back into a child’s pose, round your back within your tolerance. Focus on bringing your butt as far back as possible, ideally, your butt will touch your heels. From this position reach your arms over to...
16 Dec Cobra Pose
HOW: Get set up on your stomach with your hands just outside your shoulders. Begin the exercise by pushing your hands into the ground then lifting your upper body and chest off the ground by extending your arms. Pull your body through and lift...
11 Dec Seated Thoracic Rotation
HOW: Get set up seated upright with your hands supported on your thighs. Begin the exercise by rotating your upper body side-to-side and repeat, listen to the video for tips and cues. As you rotate your body to the right, push your left shoulder...
11 Dec Seated Cat Cow
HOW: Get set up seated upright with your hands supported on your thighs. Begin the exercise by rounding your upper body and head/neck forward, letting your spine bend forward as your hands slide down your thighs. Reverse the motion to sit upright nice and...
11 Nov Seated Sciatic Nerve Glider – Head and Leg Movement
HOW: Get set-up seated and assume a slump position by letting your upper body round and slump forward. While maintaining this position, kick your leg straight and point your foot down as you simultaneously look up with your head and neck. Reverse the motion...
28 Oct Supine Pelvic Tilt
WHY: This exercise will help you to learn low back and pelvic body awareness. Learning body awareness in these regions is important when trying to manage pain now and in the future. This exercise also promotes motion in this region and can help with...
06 Oct Dead Bug – Legs Vertical
HOW: Start this exercise on your back in a 90/90 position of your knees and hips. Keep the small of your back pushed into the floor by activating your core. While maintaining core activation extend your legs out one at a time towards the...
06 Oct Low Back Flexion and Extension – AROM, Wall Supported
HOW: While placing both hands up against the wall for support, begin by sagging your hips to arch the back. Then push back into a child's pose against the wall, the goal is to stretch the back into a rounding position. Repeat this movement...
