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Spot-On Affordable Self-Massage
It’s amazing how much money is spent on treating pain. If you read my last blog entry (Advice For People Experiencing Back Pain) you know Americans spend $50 billion per year addressing lower back pain alone. Throw in the amount of money spent by knee and shoulder...
Advice For People Experiencing Back Pain – Dorfman Kinesiology
If you experience back pain, you’re not alone. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American’s spend around $50 billion each year addressing lower back pain, which the NIH says is the most common cause of job-related disability and the leading...
Michellie Jones and the 2009 Ford Ironman World Championship
For triathletes, there’s no bigger day than October 10, 2009, when 1,800 of the sport’s most compelling athletes get together to compete in the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. To get to the starting line, participants must receive one of 200 spots...
Swine Flu, Influenza and Massage
For the last nine years or so, I have been fortunate enough to have a clinic in Mexico City, Mexico, where I perform injury rehabilitation massage work along with stretching and flexibility training. I travel to Mexico once or twice a year and even have plans to work...
This is Your Life, John Elway
You wouldn’t know it to look at me today but back in the late 1970s, I played on my high school football team. What’s more, I played on the same team as Hall of Fame NFL quarterback John Elway, who by the way, probably wouldn’t have passed Chemistry if it weren’t for...
USC Kicker Jordan Congdon’s Biomechanics
If you watch today’s 95th edition of the Rose Bowl football game (5:10 P.M. ET, on ABC), you might see USC Kicker Jordan Congdon, a young man whose athletic performance has improved from an overhaul in his biomechanics. Jordan and I met in the early part of 2008 when...
Season’s Greetings and Off-Season Challenges
I don't know about you but I'm always in the habit of giving thanks for the blessings I receive, especially this holiday season when my family and I recently welcomed a new addition … a baby boy named Eli. Suffice to say, Eli and Nicole are both doing really well, and...
Triathlete Magazine and Sam McGlone Recommend my Stretching DVDs
The January 2009 issue of Triathlete Magazine (on newsstands December 9, 2008 - January 12, 2009) includes an article by Samantha McGlone recommending my stretching DVDs. If you're unfamiliar with Sam, she's a professional triathlete who just happens to hold a degree...
Hands-on Treatment for Lower Back Pain
One of the things I'm known for is producing and selling a unique line of DVDs and booklets on stretching, flexibility, and injury prevention. For example, my Lower Back Basics DVD guides you through 12 entry-level therapeutic stretches to free you of lower back...
Stretching the Truth
This spring, I ran across a story in the Tallahassee Democrat claiming pre-match stretching does not improve flexibility for tennis players. Then, just the other day, I learned about researchers in UNLV’s kinesiology department who say they've discovered that...