When this writer was a pre-teen living in southern Africa, coming from Connecticut, he was astonished to see people comfortably carrying heavy loads on their heads.1 This was more common than seeing things carried in the arms. This was so novel...
Tag - Manipulation Core
Our ability to move is governed by non-conscious stimulus-response patterns called reflexes. Although some of the responses are learned, there is a vast amount of involuntary, automatic engagement of our bodies in our actions. As we do not...
THE NATURAL POSITION FOR THE ARMS As a movement researcher and educator, I have encountered a range of descriptions for the optimal resting position of the arms, from positioning where the thumbs point outwards, to the thumbs pointing forward...
INTRODUCTION Side View of Sternum Our arms compressionally connect to the rest of our bodies at the joint between our Clavicle and Sternum (not at the shoulders). The Sternum is an assemblage of three bones, the topmost called the Manubrium...
Gravity, time, and space are challenging concepts to get a handle on. Because these concepts underpin movement our assumptions regarding them influence our movement dynamics. In this Ted Talk, an eleven-dimensional model of spacetime is...
Our lymph system is a circulatory system not unlike our vascular system with one major difference, it doesn’t have a pump(heart). Lymph is also a return-only network, the vascular equivalent of veins, and uses our arteries to bring lymph...