Muscles are responsible for human movement, but often become unhealthy due to overuse, fatigue and repetitive injury. Muscles are under the direction of the central nervous system, both for voluntary (purposeful) and involuntary control. Muscle function depends on sensory feedback it receives from the periphery, or a remote area of the body. When muscles are tight or dysfunctional, motor control, or muscle action, is altered. If an area of the body sustains an injury or traum

Winter is here and with it, a threat to our immune system as we spend more time indoors and with each other. I am going to share how I have learned to cope living in northeast Ohio by preventing illness. According to Nick Hall, neuroimmunologist at University of South Florida, there are three things you can do if you feel an illness coming on. Avoiding antibiotics and medications that interfere with the balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut is always a good thing, espec

The hip flexor muscles are located in the front of each hip and act to flex (bend) and externally rotate the hip and trunk. They also have an indirect function of stabilizing the spine due to the attachment on the lumbar spine. Individuals with weakness in the core musculature often develop compensations resulting in tightness of this muscle. It is one of the "helper" muscles that stabilizes the pelvic girdle and lumbar spine when the core is not functioning properly. However