Recently we have had a few clients suffering from Sleep Apnea. This condition can wreak havoc on your entire health and disrupt your entire life. As with many disorders these days, people are stuck in a reactive mode and more or less just treating symptoms with medications and using treatments or machines to "fix them". We have found that the only true solution for these conditions is to find the original cause and eliminate it/them. For many it is learning how to breathe, for others it is more about nutrition or exercise. In most cases you will find STRESS is a huge component. But what is common to all of them is you need to have all of the 4 things I just mentioned in order to be rid of this debilitating problem. Make sure you read our article on our Top 10 Tips for sleeping.

When it comes to developing core strength there is a wide variety of exercises and definitions as to how to achieve this. There seems to be so much confusion and conflicting theories for achieving incredible strength that many people simply do not know where to start. There is one thing you will need above all others and if you took a close look at a lot of the ancient forms of exercise like martial arts and Yoga, and even weightlifting and gymnastics, you will see the elite athletes share a common trait. This trait is perfect breathing technique to engage the core. Even though their disciplines are different they know that breathing correctly is absolutely critical for developing strength for their sport. The tip I am going to show you in this article is based around the theory of breathing to create pressure through the entire kinetic chain and produce incredible force. The most interesting point is that this is not even new, it is old news for the skilled martial arts fan. In fact it is the whole basis of the one inch punch!

Quality Nutrition is absolutely essential for optimal health, regardless of what your goals may be. And for back pain the food you eat can even be a contributing factor to your condition!. For adequate repair your body is in constant need of essential vitamins, minerals, proteins and amino acids to provide the body with the necessary building blocks for muscles, organs, nervous system and emotional energy. Unfortunately this is often an overlooked part of rehabilitation and completely ignored by the modern rehabilitation field. We must place as much importance on the quality of our food, the quality of our sleep and the quality of our movement if we want to be free of lower back pain forever. Relying on medication or surgery is ignorance to the real underlying cause of the problem. This article we will look very closely at the role food has on healing damaged tissue and also how poor food choices stimulate more inflammation.