Can You Increase Your Life Expectancy?

Doing this one thing a day can increase your life expectancy!

Do you spend several hours a day sitting, in a car, at a desk?

We work hard and often our jobs and lifestyles force us sitting for long periods of time. Studies have shown that sitting is the new smoking. When we sit, our psoas muscle and iliopsoas are shortened and often remain tight in the shortened position even when at rest. One easy to diagnose symptom of this muscle not being relaxed and fully elongated isWhen your psoas muscle is shortened for hours on end, this can cause compression of the spine. The compression of the spine will affect us much more seriously than just the symptoms lower back pain, tightened hamstrings and bilateral knee discomfort. The long term affects that it has on your health and lower back pain. and that the spinal compression will cut off the communication of your nervous system to your organs, such as diaphragm (respiratory issues), stomach and intestines (digestion issues, IBS and Crohns disease etc), and the list goes on since we are talking about the spine, which is our nerve center and even affect how we walk.

It is extremely important to keep these muscles relaxed and to stretch on a regular basis to counter the sitting posture. Here is a link for you for your daily care, remember, stretching will not relax the muscle but it will help to work and elongate it to get more oxygen and nutrients through the fibers. Sometimes, it's a little too late to be stretching and it can cause the dehydrated muscles, ligaments, and tendons to tear. Sometimes it is best to compress the muscles, as in Camel Pose , Bow Pose, this will stretch the psoas but compress the fascia and muscles in the lower spine.  To compress the psoas, which is also helpful click this link. See a professional that specializes in therapeutic treatments for the psoas to allow you to get the most efficient release on a regular basis for optimal health. (The photo above from Lifehacker is a great model to see how this can happen)

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In Health and Wellness, 

Michelle S Krause LMT, CST-T, Holistic Health Specialist

Certified Teaching Assistant and Techniques Therapist Click link here:  (Mentor, UII Book Club Host and Upledger CST-T Study Prep Group Leader)

Member of the National Board of Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers and a board member with the Ethics and Standards Committee

Current member with Maryland AMTA and former New Member Committee Chair and Board Member

Offices in Severna Park Maryland and Berkeley Springs West Virginia 

A little about me,

I’m an Elite Brain Health Specialist Clinician , working as a Certified CranioSacral Therapist with Michael Morgan of Upledger Institute with Alzheimer's research and Menopause related brain health. I have 5 children, homeschooled two of them while I was a fire fighter in Baltimore City before suffering a career ending injury and meeting my husband. I was told to have a surgery or become a quadriplegic within 3 years and that was 20 years ago. I began doing major research on my own and have healed my scoliosis, herniated discs, concussions and more through the many disciplines that I bring to your sessions. My mission is to assist others through CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation and other disciplines while educating others to become their own advocates, feel into their body and lifestyle and create health and lifestyle plans that work best for them and take them from “I’m exhausted & I’ve TRIED EVERYTHING” to living their best lives!