Rehabilitative Tai Chi for Shoulder Strengthening

Q: Shouldn’t I be doing some shoulder strengthening exercises along with the Tai Chi? This question comes from Katharine, a current client diagnosed with scapular dyskinesis and correlative myofascial pain. Very often both clients and professionals can have a...
Blowing Away Pain

Blowing Away Pain

  Welcome to this month’s IRQTC training tips newsletter where we take a moment to focus on a simple technique to relieve and re-pattern somatic pain. Before we begin, however, a heartfelt thank you to all of the IRQTC community who have been so engaged this past...
Are you stuck in your genes?

Are you stuck in your genes?

You hear it everywhere.  People mention it to me every single day.  It’s a phrase that unconsciously traps us into believing that we are helpless to guide our own health.  “It runs in my family”, and its correlatives; “My mother, father, siblings, or second cousin’s...

Back Attack

Recently while browsing the Pub Med research site and looking through articles on heart disease, I came across an interesting correlation.  One article cited a major cause of coronary artery disease to be “job stress”, no surprise; but in this case it looked at a...
Health Ensurance

Health Ensurance

I made a decision two years ago to not accept health insurance when I opened my private physical therapy practice.  Even thinking of this initially was frightening; however deep in my heart the choice was already made.  At the time, I was working in the outpatient...