
Something's a foot
The most neglected, receive more abuse than any other part and some people don't even like them! Yet the feet don't even have to be in pain or feel like they have a problem for them to cause issues in almost any other region of the body. The structure of the feet essentially enables us to float as we walk...... the entire weight of your body is actually suspended by the soft tissue and the ligaments attached to the 26 bones we have in each foot. The arches allow for the force

Lets change the tone...
Today I want to talk about muscle tone and how your muscles cope with injury. Just as a reminder in my first post I talked about Biotensegrity - the body is a self-supporting unit, if you change one part then there will be ripples, adaptions and changes to the whole system, it's how the body copes with life! What is muscle tone? It is the degree of contraction of a muscle at rest. It is the condition of the small nerve impulses that keep the muscle alive, these disappear unde

Our walk counts for more than our talk
If you've been blessed with the ability to walk well it's easy isn't it, you don't think about it, get up and go. Gait is the term used to describe how we walk. When we are children we aren't actually taught to stand or to walk, we copy. Usually whoever is around the most, normally meaning we may pick up their style, good/bad, very early on. Have a think about your walk, its actually a whole body experience, your arms and legs both swing, this causes flexing, extending, side