Old Joke: Why was Ginger Rogers more talented than Fred Estaire? Because Ginger had to do everything Fred did, only backwards and in heels. As a resident of New York City for over 30 years, I walked a lot of miles as a commuter. Over uneven sidewalks and landscaped paths [...]
For two days out of the week I can stand up straight with little or no pain - all because I have attended a Feldenkrais session. How I look forward to those two days! In my retirement, after years of employment in which I constantly stood - as a sales [...]
Back in my 50’s, oh so long ago, yet seems like yesterday, I was teaching a workshop on graceful aging. I felt eminently qualified -, after all, I now had my AARP membership. The class that day was about resilience and I was demonstrating spiraling down to the floor and [...]
Can you explain how skin affects balance? By Carol Montgomery, GCFP It is commonly known that loss of joint range of motion in the foot, ankle, hip and spine can impact one’s balance1-3, especially when trying to walk across an uneven parking lot, the backyard, down a gravel driveway [...]
By Carol Montgomery, GCFP CM Move a foot forward. Move the other foot forward. Repeat until you reach your destination…the bathroom, the kitchen, the mailbox, up a hill, the grocery store. Oh, if only walking were only that simple. The joyful feeling of freedom in movement is often appreciated only when [...]
An Interview with Elizabeth Beringer, Feldenkrais® Trainer, GCFP For November 2021 SenseAbility on Knee Health Interviewed by Yulia Kriskovets Elizabeth Beringer is a well known trainer and practitioner who created one of the first audio series on knee health following her own knee injury recovery. Her recording of [...]
By Arnold Askew, GCFPCM The shoulder is a wonderfully designed joint that allows us to have almost unlimited range of mobility of the upper arm. The upper arm or humerus has a ball at the end that fits in the socket of the scapula. It reflects the similar type [...]
By Becky Behling Featured photo by Aditya Saxena on US This is a personal account of my experiences as an arthroplasty patient. In no way is this intended to be medical advice or substitute for the care of qualified medical professionals.• Arthroplasty, also known as joint replacement, is among the [...]
By: Mary Susan Chen, PT, GCFP Dominic attended Functional Integration® lessons to smooth out his violin playing. He had recently joined a trio and wanted to improve the quality of his performance. During a summer trip to Cape Cod, he and his family dined in an old train car converted [...]
By Jean Elvin, MFA, GCFP Sitting down or standing up from a chair – what could be a more common daily action? Unwittingly, many people have the erroneous internal image of standing straight up from the chair, without inclining their weight over their feet, omitting the sense of counter-balance between [...]