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Pain free through the holidays

To stay pain free when you are on holiday or simply when your regular treatment centre

Is closed for a few weeks is sometimes a daunting prospect.

Here is three simple step to keep you on track and get you through to the new year feeling great.

MOBILITY
Mobility is movement in different directions, any direction.

Try and sit on the floor , reach in as many different directions as you can imagine, bent you knees and push them to the floor, forwards and backwards.

Stand up, put your hands behind your head, turn your chest left then right 6x each side then pretend you are boxing and move your chest quickly from side to side.

[FOR CONNECTIVE TISSUE TO BECOME SUPPLE AND STRONG IT NEEDS VARIATION IN SPEED AS WELL AS DIRECTION]

STRENGTH
I am sorry to confirm what everyone has been going on about but CRAWL, CRAWL, CRAWL!!

I truly believe there are few other exercises that is as simple and reflexive, yet super powerful as the crawl.

It does not matter how you start just start.

There is probably only two things to consider when you crawl and that is the flexibility of your wrists and the friction on your knees.

Our wrists are not weak, please remember that, they are in 90% of cases just extremely tight. Take it easy on them and slowly build up strength and flexibility. YOU DO NOT WANT TO INJURE YOUR WRIST, it is just not worth it.

CONSISTANCY
You will be better off doing little bits at a time than one big session.

Get in the habit to move, wiggle and jiggle. No matter where you are, in what position you're in or what you are doing there is always time to move.

Start your day with some floor movement and crawl to the bathroom. [I am fully aware of the strangeness of this, but hey would you rather be strange in your own home without pain or keep it straight and sit with pain?]

If you have any other questions please feel free to ask: