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:
Tension headaches can cause a lot of pain. Stress is a common cause of tension headaches. Relaxing the muscles around the neck and shoulder area can help decrease the pain caused by tension headaches.
This seated exercise routine for seniors focuses on simple exercises that can help loosen up and strengthen the muscles in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, and ankles. It’s a great daily routine at any age.
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.
Finding a comfortable position to sleep at night can be challenging for some people. People who sleep on their sides and suffer from back, hip, and/or shoulder pain may find these tips helpful to get a better night’s sleep.
Bell’s Palsy is the sudden weakness of your facial muscles on one half of the face. These exercises may seem like you are just making funny faces, but this will help get the weak muscles working again.
When it’s hard to take a deep breath, it can often be from tight chest and pec muscles from poor posture. These simple breathing exercises should help open up the chest area to help you breathe better.
Breathing exercises can be a great way to help relieve stress and anxiety. This video focuses on two relaxing breathing techniques: Square breathing (aka box breathing, 4x4 breathing, 4-part breath, etc.) and Pursed breathing.
Tinnitus is a ringing in your ears. For some people, this simple technique may stop tinnitus immediately giving you instant relief. Tinnitus can also be another noise like buzzing, roaring, hissing, etc.
These simple breathing exercises are great for people with COPD or for people who want to be able to hold their breath longer like swimmers or surfers. These are also great for relaxation.
