Body Maintenance

To reduce your daily discomfort 

Tips for stretches and exercises

-Try not to bounce

Stretch in a smooth movement without bouncing. Bouncing as you stretch can injure your muscle and actually contribute to muscle tightness. 

-How to Hold

Breathe normally and hold each stretch for about 30 seconds, and if you get to 2 minutes in a stretch, try to stand up and shake it out give the muscle time to breath.
Don't Aim for Pain

-Don't Aim for Pain

Expect to feel tension while you're stretching, not pain. A little sensation isn't bad, but if it hurts, you've pushed too far. 

-Drink Enough Water

A large reason we stretch is to bring circulation to an area and keep the muscle functioning properly. This becomes a lot more available with a healthy amount of water in our bodies. 

Upper Body Muscles

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Suboccipitals

A lot of the time tension/pain in our neck and even some headaches can be caused or intensified by hyper tonicity in our suboccipitals. This article without going into the niddy-griddy shows exercises that has proven helpful for a lot people with similar pain

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Sternocleidomastoid (SCM)

I like the amount of detail and direction this practitioner puts in to his article on this SCM stretch. Though it lacks videos it has some good pictures of how to execute the maneuvers 

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Scalenes

short and to the point, there's some written directions here, but the video is the reason I recommend this link 

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Trapezius

A great article talking about back and neck pain and a few exercises that might help with the pain in your traps and neck 

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Pectoralis Minor

This article offers a wide selection of stretches along with a few examples what might look like a tight pectoralis minor 

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Serratus Anterior

They've got a lot of detail here, and though they might have mixed up some of the actions of the muscle, I still think there are some good stretches in here. 

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Rectus abdominus

These are what makes up what we mostly think of as our abs. This article gives good detailed directions for the exercises it provides. For all of those with Psoas tension, I would advise skipping the Jack Knife Crunch until your feeling stronger with your lower back

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Forearm Flexors

Though this article lacks a video, it makes up for it in detail and clear pictures on how to stretch your forearms 

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Quadratus Lumborum

This page is simple and straight to the point with some great QL stretches 

Lower Body Muscles

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Psoas Major

This article has some great gifs and directions for psoas stretches. It continues in some other useful information about the psoas that I would recommend reading if you have back pain 

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Glutes

This is a great article about different glute exercises you can do at home! The only advise I want to add is to not lock your knees like she's doing in the video

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Piriformis

To the point with videos and step by step directions through these stretches and exercises 

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Quadriceps

Though this site is missing a video, it has some great pictures and directions that I hope you find helpful 

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Hamstrings

Starting out with a quick video of the stretches, this article then moves on to some very through directions and even some great stretching advice! 

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Gastrocnemius and Soleus

This page goes into a lot of detail on how to do some targeted calf stretches and even has a video explaining it all at the bottom of the page. 

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Tibialis Anterior

A great amount of info and a video for each exercise and stretch provided. With the why and the how I hope this one leaves you with some new valuable tools 

Other Health Tools

Plantar Fasciitis

This is a Youtube video that goes into some tools to assist the recovery of plantar fasciitis and goes into some detail about the disfunction. That being said, don't feel like without some of the tools there won't be any recovery! Just try out what is available and what feels good and stick with that to start

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