Your glute muscles are important for nearly every movement, posture, and pain prevention. When your glutes are strong and functioning properly, they help with things such as stabilizing your pelvis, supporting your spine, improving posture, helping with walking, stairs, running, etc.
When glutes are weak or not working properly, other muscles overcompensate, which can lead to discomfort, dysfunction and even injury.
There are three gluteal muscles, the gluteus maximus, medius and minimus. The gluteus maximus, or glute max, is large and powerful. It extends the hips, and helps with standing up, walking, and climbing stairs. The gluteus medius is on the outer side of the hip and helps with stabilizing the pelvis during activities. The gluteus minimus sits underneath the others and attaches deeper into the side of your pelvis. The two muscles work together to support pelvic alignment, lateral movement and internal rotation of the legs.
Glute Exercises from Doctor Jo mentioned in this video:
Sitting in front of a computer all day for school or work can tighten & weaken muscles in the neck, shoulders, chest, hips, knees, and feet. These sitting stretches & exercises may help.
Muscle Scraping can help promote tissue healing, improve motion, and help reduce pain. This form of scraping therapy evolved from the traditional Chinese medicine healing technique known as Gua sha.
This real-time lower body isometrics routine features easy exercises that can help strengthen the lower body & relieve pain. It can also help decrease tightness and improve overall flexibility.
Writers and Office Workers often get really focused on their work and tend to have a lot of neck and back pain from bad posture at a computer. Their wrists and hands can get tight and over worked as well. These stretches and exercises are not only great for writers, but they are also great for anyone who works at a desk all day.
Red light therapy's popularity is rising, and there's a lot of research that shows red light and infrared light therapy can be beneficial for many different things. In this video, I take a look at the Luxxe Flex smart red light therapy panel.
Bodyweight exercises are great (especially for beginners) because they can be done without any equipment or an expensive gym membership. Many simple and effective exercises can be done with just our bodyweight. The bodyweight exercises in this video are great for helping to improving strength, balance, and overall health.
Did you know GERD or Acid Reflux can often be relieved by simple stretches and exercises? In this video, I'll show several stretches and exercises that can help prevent and relieve the symptoms of GERD or acid reflux.
Want to improve your posture? Here are some simple things you can do. Having bad posture can cause pain in your neck, shoulders, back, and our whole body.
Exercises for Osteoporosis can help prevent further decline and help protect the bones. It’s important to move safely if you have osteoporosis: Maintain good spinal alignment by keeping hips and shoulders in alignment (no twisting). These gentle exercises when done at one’s own pace may help.
