She comes to class every Tuesday. She moves through her practice without complaint, goes deeper than most, holds longer than she probably should. After class she mentions, almost as an aside, that she took an Aleve before she left the house. Another woman in the same class takes ibuprofen. Different pills, same idea. She means well. She wants to show up. She wants to do the work. And I understand that impulse completely. But what neither of them realizes is that the medicatio

I was bent nearly 90 degrees just to walk ten steps. Every chair was a negotiation. Getting in and out of a car was an event. A surgeon told me he wanted to operate but could not guarantee any relief from the pain. I did not have surgery. I learned to manage this condition. And ten years later I am still pain free. What I had was gluteal tendinopathy. What made it worse was everything the wellness world told me to do about it, including stretching. Here is what the research n

If you have ever felt a deep, nagging ache right at your sit bones, that spot where the back of your thigh meets the bottom of your pelvis, you may have experienced what the yoga community calls Yoga Butt. The clinical name is proximal hamstring tendinopathy. And despite the casual nickname, it is a genuinely debilitating condition that can make sitting painful, walking uncomfortable, and your yoga practice feel like it is working against you. Here is what most people get wro

Our ability to handle sudden heat does not stay constant over a lifetime. It tends to decline as we get older, and adults over sixty-five are specifically flagged as less able to tolerate abrupt changes in temperature [4]. Many of us over fifty are also managing high blood pressure, heart conditions, or medications that change how we sweat and regulate heat.