Body Ache Escape’s Blog
Welcome to Body Ache Escape Massage Center’s massage blog. We hope to provide you educational material that will help you get to know more about your body and health. We get our inspiration from our clients, so if you have a disease, dysfunction or health issue please let us know if you’d like us to write about it!
Ease Aches With This 5-Minute Foam Roller Workout
Ease Aches With This 5-Minute Foam Roller Workout Tight, achy, and just plain stiff sometimes? We've all been there. While a foam roller can be a great prop for a killer workout, it's also the perfect tool to help ease aches and pains after a killer workout or particularly long day. These
The Role of the Q Angle in Anterior Knee Pain
The Role of the Q Angle in Anterior Knee Pain Postural distortions can lead to numerous soft-tissue disorders. Clients with these postural challenges often look to the massage therapist to help with the pain or biomechanical challenges that result. In the lower extremity, a large quadriceps angle, more commonly called the Q
Is It Time For Joint Surgery? Here’s How To Know
Is It Time For Joint Surgery? Here’s How To Know Alison Ripa, 59, of Sterling, MA, paid a price for ignoring the pain in her left knee. When she was a teenager, she'd badly injured it in a softball game. Injured joints are often more vulnerable to osteoarthritis later in life, and
100 Simple Strategies To Sleep Better Every Night
100 Simple Strategies To Sleep Better Every Night Getting enough sleep is a good health must: It keeps you slim, prevents heart disease and diabetes, muscles up your memory, and more (if you have diabetes, you don't just have to accept it: Prevention's The Natural Way To Beat Diabetes shows you exactly
Here’s How A Standing Desk Could Help Your Sciatica
Here’s How A Standing Desk Could Help Your Sciatica Long workweeks are painful enough as it is, but when you have a sciatica flare-up, sitting at a desk all day can be downright miserable. Sciatica is a specific type of pain that happens when something—like a herniated disc or a bone spur—puts
4 Foam Roller Exercises To Relieve Pain In 10 Minutes
The following routine, designed by Michelle F. Schwahn, a physical therapist and personal trainer based in Minnesota, relieves muscle tension and pain in just 10 minutes with these simple foam roller exercises. Tack it on to the end of any workout and you'll start to feel looser right away. Bonus: Because you
