Have Completed a Month of E-cises for my Neck....

and I love Egoscue!! It's been months since I've written, and in that time my neck got pretty stiff! I could lift my chin and turn my head to the left, but not to the right because it just wouldn't go there without pain. So for the past month, once or twice almost every day, I did the five Egoscue E-cises for the neck, and voila, you should see me move my neck now!

It still makes crackling noises, but I am not complaining.

I have moved on to the HIPS now. This is because for the past several months (yes folks I am aging - but not for long!) my left hip feels like it's turned out to the left and so when I bend over it feels weird. Plus my left foot has always been super everted (turned outward). So today was my second day on the hip e-cises. I am confident it will improve.

And by the way, I am just doing the "Pain Free" menus, straight from the book.

I just wish I could better explain to others why Egoscus is so necessary for so many of us. The best I can do is say: we are not aligned! Our ankles, knees, hips, shoulders and head are not stacked in a straight line as they should be.

More soon.

Too bad my mother didn't know about this 25 years ago

I saw this today about scoliosis and egoscue. When I was 15 and had an S curve rapidly increasing in my spine, my mother took me to three doctors for three opinions. They all said surgery and Harrington rod, which is what happened. Too bad we didn't know about this 25 years ago:

http://egoscueportland.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/scoliosis/

2nd day on the Tower

This am I did it again. Top three levels for right leg, five minutes each level. Then repeated on left leg. I felt nothing in back area. I did feel it in my hyper-extended knees. I have to gingerly bend my knee out of a level when time is up. When standing, it takes a couple of seconds before knees feel normal again. BUT, I did ten jump squats afterwards, and I think my knees cracked less! We will see. Also it seemed like my left foot was not acting its usual everted way as I walked around the living room.

Good thing I asked my husband to take this photo b/c I was able to see that I needed to turn my left foot in more, which is easy to do in that easy chair.

So, once again, my routine this morning was:

Static Back - 5 minutes
The Tower - 30 minutes total
Air Bench - 2 minutes