Women's Health, Yoga, Expecting and New Moms, Physical Therapy
Jade Admin
What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'

The recent article by NPR, Flattening The 'Mummy Tummy' With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day,  starts off with a sensational, grabbing title. A click bait title that we wouldn't expect from a trusted news source like NPR. But it certainly got your attention, especially if you recently had a baby and now are feeling a little weak around the core. And since this is NPR this should be safer than something random you pull off the internet, right? Well, yes and no.

What to Know Before 'Flattening the Mummy Tummy'
Acupuncture, Yoga
Jade Admin
Yoga for Addiction Recovery, Part 1

With addiction, deep fractures are drawn between our mind and our body, our needs and our habits, our emotions and our actions, and in the relationships that we have to ourselves and to others. Yoga, on the other hand, is connection.

Yoga for Addiction Recovery, Part 1
Acupuncture, Physical Therapy, Yoga, Women's Health, Expecting and New Moms
Jade Admin
Stress Awareness Month

It's a great time to pay attention to how stress is affecting you. Common stressors include work, family, money, children, illness and more. Stress can impact both your body and your mind causing symptoms such as muscular pain, irritability, fatigue, and headaches. Here's how we can help...

Stress Awareness Month
Expecting and New Moms, Physical Therapy, Prenatal, Women's Health
Jade Admin
Recovering from your C-Section

According to CDC data, 32% of women delivering a baby did so via C-section in 2015. Some of these are elective (planned) & others unplanned or emergent. If you are one of the 32%, what can you expect following a C-section? 

Recovering from your C-Section
Kimberly Buonaiuto
Understanding Your Health Insurance

Do you feel like your insurance coverage gets more confusing each year? That’s probably because it does! It seems like each year there is another rule or exception to your plan but the cost keeps going up. Here at Jade, we are often asked, “how much will this cost?” The answer isn’t as easy at it seems.

Understanding Your Health Insurance

breathing

I breathe, therefore I am: Connecting the Breathing Diaphragm and the Pelvic Floor

By Jennifer Major, DPT

Inhale to receive. Receiving can be difficult for people who are used to always doing, always giving. The breath nourishes the body and mind and helps to bring healing oxygen to restrictions and injuries. The breath is closely tied to pelvic floor rehabilitation, and here is why.

Sometimes when people have difficulty relaxing they breathe into the upper rib cage tightening around the ribs and abdomen. So why does the exhale feel like the relaxation part of the breath?  In order to take a deep breath, we need to activate the respiratory diaphragm. As the diaphragm moves down and outward air is drawn into the lungs. Yes, the exhale is the relaxation of the respiratory diaphragm. But, when we breathe in, the pelvic floor descends along with the respiratory diaphragm. For abdominal and pelvic function a full diaphragmatic breath into the lower ribs works better.

The pelvic floor, in its relaxed state, is just along for the ride with the breath: down on the inhale, back up on the exhale. We inhale to receive breath, so that we can exhale and do something with the oxygen we have received. Inhale to prepare, exhale with action. It may be that we speak or perform a muscle action or maybe we just allow the breath to release gently back into the atmosphere. If we activate the pelvic floor and lift it on the exhale, then we are working with the body’s natural rhythm.  

Can you breathe in such a way that you can feel your lower rib cage and abdomen expand as you inhale? Can you feel your pelvic floor soften and broaden as you inhale? Can you feel your respiratory diaphragm and pelvic floor return to the original position as you allow the exhale?  This is how we meet your body where it naturally wants to be. When we meet you where you are, we can help you to heal and improve.