The following exercises are being presented to you as our gift to you. It should serve as a starting point for you to start relaxing the muscles that most likely are tightening up.

 

Please check with your doctor to make sure that you can handle these simple stretches.

 

Our society has been introducing activities and postures that are contributing to an alteration in our physical appearance. 

 

These exercises will start to help shift these muscles. They should be done a minimum of 2-3 times per day. Why do you need to do these that often? Think about it, you sit at the computer for hours per day, watch TV on the couch for hours at a clip, stay in one position for hours at a time. This causes our bodies to shift our posture...

 

and we expect to do exercise for 1 minute per day and expect a change. 

 

 

These exercises need to become a part of daily life life. They are simple, only take a few minutes but the results are dramatic after about three weeks of doing them consistently. If you are having trouble keeping them up take a look at our Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Home Relief System, it includes our Follow up Support System- to help keep you on track. 

 

You have to learn how to use your body in a different way. In my practice, I tell my patients to

 

 

In the beginning of transforming your body to a healthier state, all that needs to be done is to do things in a different way.

 

Pay attention to your body's messages. You never want to create pain when doing your stretches. You want to feel a slight "good hurt".  It could be a little sore, with that "ah that feels good" feeling. But never pain.  Don't do your stretches when you anxious, rushed or your mind is on other things.  You will not be able to listen to you body. If I tell you right now to bring your attention to your left little toe, your mind goes there and you can feel how your "little toe" feels. But before I told you to do that, you were not even thinking of your "little toe". When you're doing your stretches, put your attention to the area where you are doing the stretch. It really makes a difference. It makes all the difference!!!

 

There is a lot of new research on stretching. We always consider stretching as such a simple procedure and we believe that anything that simple could really make a difference. That is not correct. 

 

Even as physician, I used to feel the same way. 

 

I learned the truth when I started doing yoga. I had sustained my own injuries and as the years progressed, the symptoms got worse and worse. Chiropractic really helped. I went for massage and that helped too. I took medication and then I went for physical therapy and that made a big difference. But it was not until I learned how to stretch that made all the difference.

 

The purpose of stretching is to lengthen contracted muscle, alter adhesions in the muscle fibers, and then to ultimately reduce the inflammation in the muscle fibers.

 

If you are in a lot of pain, then most likely your muscles are what I call a "wild-fire".