The famous psoas muscle
The Mighty Psoas: Is It Really That Important? Short answer: Absolutely, YES! ✅ 🤔 What Even Is the Psoas? Location, Location, Location: It's a deep-seated muscle that attaches to all your lumbar vertebrae 🦴 and runs down to connect to your hip 🦴. The Dynamic Duo: On its journey, it teams up with the iliacus muscle to form the superstar duo known as the Iliopsoas ✅. ⚡️ Why Is It Such a Big...
Back Pain SOS: Your Stomach May Be the Culprit!
CLINICAL CASE: "It hurts between my shoulder blades." "I need my back to be cracked." "I need a massage where it hurts." Is this what you need, or is it the sensation your body is manifesting? 🤔 Treatments without clinical criteria and an approach focused on the underlying causes are just isolated techniques. In a chronic or recurring gastric condition, irritation of the stomach walls occurs, which then affects its fasciae and anatomical relationships. But of course, you...
Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Is it an Emotional Problem?
Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Is it an Emotional Problem? Many patients find themselves seeing different doctors for common symptoms. These can include heart palpitations, gastrointestinal discomfort, migraine headaches and various random aches, pains and fatigue. The patient then may leave the consultation without getting any type of answers or relief. Medically unexplained symptoms are highly common with research reporting 3 out of 4 patients reporting chest pain in the ER leaving with no physical finding...
Back to School, Back to Stress?
Why the start of the school year can feel harder than you expect — and what you can do about it. The start of a new school term can be an exciting time — fresh lesson plans, new students, and a renewed sense of purpose. But for many teachers, especially those working far from home, it’s also a season of hidden stress. Why is this time of year so challenging? As a psychotherapist...
A dive into Evil dampness
During the humid rainy season, water droplets form on walls and clothes refuse to dry. This pervasive dampness creates an uncomfortable, sticky sensation throughout the body. In traditional Chinese medicine, when this natural moisture penetrates the body and disrupts internal metabolism, it becomes a pathogenic factor known as Evil dampness. Like a hidden swamp within, it silently erodes one's health. The four major characteristics of Evil dampness 1. Heavy and turbid like...
Stop Scrolling and Break Internet Addiction: Digital Minimalism
In a world where your attention is a commodified asset, it is more important than ever to be mindful of where that attention is being spent. On average, adults in developed countries spend 6 to 8 hours on average per day in front of screens. With the adult brain taking 23 minutes to refocus after checking a text message, no wonder that living in a world constantly buzzing with social media, notifications...
The Benefits of Functional Medicine
Picture this: You're hanging out with your loved ones, having a good time, when suddenly the conversation shifts to health issues. Maybe Aunt Jane mentions her asthma, and before you know it, everyone's sharing stories about their medical conditions. Have you ever noticed how even though you and Aunt Jane both have asthma, your own experiences with it are totally different? That's because when it comes to health problems, there's no...