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Repetitive Strain Injuries with Deborah Quilter Feb 03, 2023

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Join Lara for a fascinating and informative conversation about Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) with, pioneer in the field, Deborah Quilter. Deborah is an ergonomics expert, a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, a yoga therapist, and the founder of the Balance Project at the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She hosts a YouTube Channel to raise awareness about RSI and give viewers reliable information and coping strategies.

Repetitive Strain Injury is the leading occupational injury in the US but few people find out about it until they are injured. People need to know the risk factors and warning signs in order to prevent injury.

In this episode, you’ll learn about:

what is a repetitive strain injury.
the importance of good posture in avoiding these types of injuries.
advice on how you can set up your workstation to help prevent repetitive strain injury.
some exercises to do if you already are feeling some of the symptoms.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Resources:

YouTube channel - youtube.com/@DeborahQuilter

Facebook - facebook.com/deborah.quilter.52

Website - rsihelp.com

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Books - Repetitive Strain Injury: A Computer User’s Guide - https://a.co/d/j2Hpw1z

The Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Book - https://a.co/d/978KL5F

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Connect with Lara Heimann, The Redefining Yoga Podcast, and LYT Daily

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Wednesday Q&A: Yin Yoga, Postpartum Joint Pain, & Twisting With Breath Feb 01, 2023

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about yin yoga, postpartum joint pain, and twisting with breath.

Your questions:

You advise against doing yin yoga because it does not generate any added value that another style of yoga would not. Yoga teacher Josh Somers claims that yin yoga stretches the tissues, which is not possible with any other yoga style, because once the muscle is engaged, the tissues are not stretched as they are when the muscle is relaxed. If I understand him right, Josh Somers is not referring to the stretching of muscles or ligaments, but to the stretching of tissue and the benefits that go with it. I was wondering what your opinion is on this.
Have you seen postpartum joint pain?
Can you explain why in quadruped when you twist you exhale to rotate open and inhale to return back to center?

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

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Non-Traditional PT with Physical Therapist Jerry Yoo Jan 27, 2023

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“For anyone who has chronic pain, one of the best antidotes is movement. And it can be the simplest movement. When you move, you will start feeling better.”

Jerry Yoo was on a path to becoming a neurosurgeon when he discovered an unexpected passion for physical therapy. Today, Jerry has found a unique approach to help high-level athletes become faster and more efficient runners and triathletes through his practice, Next Level Physio.

On this episode talks Lara talks with Jerry about his non-traditional approach to PT and the challenges they both confront in overturning traditional healthcare practices to offer their clients the absolute best care possible. Listen in for more on the value of looking at the body as a whole rather than a symptomatic approach, and his work directly with high-performance runners and triathletes.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Jerry's experience with physical therapy led him to open his own non-traditional PT practice
How running is a skill that needs to be taught and the importance of gait analysis for runners
The role of yoga, pelvic orientation, and the gender differences in hamstring versus quad strength in ACLs

Resources:

Jerry Yoo’s Website - Next Level Physio - https://gonextlevelphysio.com/

Christopher McDougall’s book Born to Run - https://tinyurl.com/y54n29hf

Beyond Physio Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-physio/id1607171114

Next level Physio YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj76dD_6uRm0ArPEg7pne1w

Email for more information - nlphysio@physio.com

Connect with the Guest:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/trijerrydpt/

Instagram Next Level Physio - https://www.instagram.com/nextlevelphysiopt/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jerry.yoo

Connect with Lara Heimann, The Redefining Yoga Podcast, and LYT Yoga

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LYT Yoga Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lytyogamethod/

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Wednesday Q&A: Slac Wrist, Finger Numbness, & Fractured Tailbone Jan 25, 2023

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about slac wrist, finger numbness, and advice about a fractured tailbone.

Your questions:

A friend of mine recently got diagnosed with slac (scapholunate advanced collapse) wrist. She is devastated as the doctor basically told her there is no fix, the pain will get worse over time, and she will need surgery at some point, which will severely limit the range of motion of her wrist. Is there anything, from your experience that can help, or are prospects really that bleak with this diagnosis?
I have a problem which started a year ago... For about two weeks, I had strong pain in the upper arm, could not elevate my hand fully because of the pain, and had pins and needles, slight numbness in the thumb and index finger. Over time, the pain almost disappeared, took about 6 to 8 months. But the feeling in the thumb and index is limited. I had an MRI. Carpal tunnel syndrome was ruled out. I was told I have a bulging disc in the cervical spine which pushes on the median nerve. I was sent to an osteopath and after five sessions, no improvement. Out of desperation. I also had acupuncture sessions with no improvement. I was sent to physio. I was told to strengthen the muscles around the scapula, working on it for a few months, and also now discovered LYT. But the numbness in the thumb and index finger remains. Any ideas what might help?
I have a question regarding my fractured tailbone recovery. I fell backwards when playing roller skating with my children yesterday. Oof! It was a big impact on my tailbone right away. It was awful. The next day I went for an X-ray and X-rays showed a coccyx fracture but not fully. According to the doctor, it will heal by itself in six weeks and I will need to do another X-ray after six weeks. In the meantime, I am asked to sit on a round cushion and avoid putting impact on the tailbone. I'm a full-time yoga teacher. I can't stop teaching for that long. Any advice for me in terms of any movement to prevent further injury or possibly the whole bone tearing apart or any movement which is good for recovery? I appreciate your advice and feedback.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

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Understanding Emotional Eating with Matty Lansdown Jan 20, 2023

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Join Lara for a conversation with Australian Matty Lansdown, a scientist, nutritionist, podcast host (How To NOT Get Sick And Die) and the Emotional Eating and Self Sabotage coach who specialises in working with women and Mothers. Matty’s life experiences led him to the belief that illness is primarily the result of poor nutrition and lifestyle choices which can be improved through mindset and behavior change.

In this episode you’ll learn:

about Matty's background and journey in the field of health and wellness, including his work with athletes and his time in a cancer hospital.
about Matty's experience and observations while working in a cancer hospital, including learning that cancer wasn’t in fact killing most of the patients.
about Matty's passion for and work on emotional eating and his desire to help women, in particular, in this area.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Connect with the guest:

https://mattylansdown.com/

Healthy Mums Collective Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/healthymumscollective

https://www.facebook.com/mattylansdown

https://www.instagram.com/mattylansdowndrums/

How To Not Get Sick And Die (podcast) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-not-get-sick-and-die/id1450212088

Connect with Lara Heimann & LYT Yoga:

Instagram Lara Heimann - https://www.instagram.com/lara.heimann/

Facebook Lara Heimann - https://www.facebook.com/lara.f.heimann

Instagram LYT Yoga - https://www.instagram.com/lytyogamethod/

Facebook LYT Yoga - https://www.facebook.com/lytyogamethod

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Wednesday Q&A: Hypermobility, Cervical Stenosis, Tingling Big Toe, & Raynaud's Jan 18, 2023

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about how to address hypermobility if you’re a teacher, poses to avoid when you have cervical stenosis, what to do about tingling in the big toe area, and what to do for Raynaud's Syndrome.

Your questions:

I am a yoga instructor and competitive dance teacher. I love to incorporate yoga into classes. The kids also love it. I have a dancer who also trains in a pre-professional ballet program. She's 13 and very hypermobile. She has started to develop this issue where her knees pop out. She's popped her right knee out twice. And now recently her left one. Her PT thinks she has Ehlers-Danlos and she'll just grow out of it. So her and her parents are just kind of treating it pretty normal and repeating the cycle when it happens (cries, pops knee in, modifies jumps but keeps dancing, starts PT again for a couple of weeks, resumes dancing 5 to 6 days a week). Do you have recommendations on certain things I could offer in our yoga part of class to help maybe strengthen her muscles? Or is it something I can't really help with in class? To be honest, I'm just worried about it popping out in my class during our competitive routine.
I have cervical stenosis and, thanks to you, I don't do headstands anymore. Are there any other poses to avoid?
I'm having tingling occasionally under my big toe and big metatarsal area. Sometimes it radiates towards my second and third toe, right foot only. I notice it after work when I am barefoot, standing, walking at home, not when seated, for example, watching TV or reading. Not every day, but on and off for a few months now. I have also had some pain in the outer side of my right hip at the greater trochanter. This is present seated as well as standing. I've been practicing LYT, as you know, for many years and I'm pretty aware of my body. The right hip pain has been an issue for me prior to LYT and shows up perhaps once a year. This is the first time that the tingling has been present. I am wondering if this is how something like Morton's Neuroma starts showing up. I am also being very mindful and practicing and focusing greatly on keeping my space in my hips in all poses. I also have osteopenia and osteoporosis. Any suggestions to help this? She is on her feet all day, no desk job, and sits for a max half hour for lunch. Plus, she also wears a wide-toe shoe box.
Can you talk a bit about Raynaud's and things you do to help manage it, also suggestions for others? I'm working with some patients and I'm recently diagnosed myself.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

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Reconstructing the Pelvic Floor with Physical Therapist, Sarah Duvall Jan 13, 2023

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“When we go so black and white in overall treatment - this is helpful, this is not helpful - It completely misses the mark for someone.”

Physical Therapist, Sarah Duvall believes that your advice to improve people’s physical health can’t be a blanket treatment for everyone - looking at the whole kinetic chain of that person is the best way to treat for success.

She talks about this and more with host Lara Heimann on this episode of Redefining Yoga. Sarah is a PT, a mother, an adventure sports athlete, and founder of Core Exercise Solutions, a center for continuing education online programs for other PTs, instructors, and trainers. Listen in to hear more about diastasis recti misconceptions, individual treatment she’s offered for men and women based on their specific body functions, and even how she went rogue at the beginning of her career to set up out-of-pocket practices.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

What are some common misconceptions about pelvic health?
How can specialized physical therapy help athletes and yogis manage pressure during transitions?
How can pelvic floor placement affect other parts of the body and how to adjust?

Resources:

Sarah’s website Core Exercise Solutions offering mentorship for other PTs, trainers, and instructors - https://www.coreexercisesolutions.com/

Connect with the Guest:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drsarahduvall/

Connect with Lara Heimann, The Redefining Yoga Podcast, and LYT Daily

Lara Heimann Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lara.heimann/

Redefining Yoga Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/redefiningyogapodcast/

LYT Yoga Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lytyogamethod/

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Wednesday Q&A: Weight Bearing in the Hands, LYT for Anxiety Reduction, & Anterior Knee Pain Jan 11, 2023

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about weight bearing in the hands, practicing LYT Yoga for decreased anxiety, and advice for persistent anterior knee pain.

Your questions:

Can we talk about the hand? I've heard of toe yoga and I use it in my PT practice and self-practice. Is there hand yoga? One thing my local LYT instructor says in class is to press the base of my index finger into the mat during any weight-bearing through the arm. I struggle with this. How can I improve and can you go into the physiology behind it?
Can LYT help my anxiety? Sometimes I've felt increased anxiety in other flow classes.
My question pertains to the stigma of knee pain. It seems as though the cottage industry of relief for knee pain has created an environment whereby if you experience ongoing knee pain, you must simply be doing something wrong. Despite my ongoing LYT practice and other attempts to remedy said knee pain, it still persists. Specifically, I experience this pain when walking downhill, downstairs, or doing things like weighted lunges or squat pulses from high crescent. In approximate terms, it generally radiates from below the patella on either side, which makes me think meniscus. I would characterize the discomfort as acute in that in more than a few cases, it may decrease when I'm more warmed up, but it never fully goes away. While I would not expect a diagnosis to be made from anecdotes in an email, it is unreasonable to think that some knee pain may not be entirely correctable through “better movement patterns,” strengthening the support structures. And if so, what metrics/means can be used to make that conclusive determination?

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

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Self-Discovery & Parenting with Love with Eileen Grimes Jan 06, 2023

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Join Lara for a conversation with the amazing Eileen Grimes, author, mother of two, and women’s leadership community leader who has a master's degree in education. They discuss Eileen’s journey to writing her book The Us Journal: A Journey of Love and Discovery, which fosters open, heartfelt communication between parents and children, for children 5-8 years old.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

about Eileen’s journey of self-discovery.
some examples of conversational prompts in The Us Journal to help parents or parent figures and children more deeply connect and understand one another.
about how writing your own eulogy can help you to consider what success means to you and what you want to contribute to the world.

Resources:

https://www.lovedasyouare.co/

Instagram: @lara.heimann & @lytyogamethod

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Wednesday Q&A: Handstand Drills, Myofascial Release, Favorite Things About Being a Physical Therapist, & Growing LYT Yoga Jan 04, 2023

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Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!

In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about handstand drills to get away from the wall, myofascial release, our favorite things about being physical therapists, and how LYT Yoga has grown over the years.

Your questions:

My question today is about handstand drills. I have a client similar age to me, in her fifties, very strong and fit as a fiddle, solo mother of four, and full-time nurse. She keeps herself strong with my LYT yoga classes at the gym, and weight training, and has PT once a month. She is in the gym five days a week doing something, averages about two LYT classes a week with me. She would like to progress more with her handstand journey. So I have just started doing some more short privates like 30 minutes after class. I have some drills on the wall that we are working on as she is not confident enough to come away from the wall. She gets up just fine, but I noticed she has the small beginnings of a dowagers hump, so an outward curve of the thoracic spine, more pronounced when weight bearing in the hands than just standing. Would appreciate some exercises to help with this and enable her to feel more confident so we can get off the wall. As always, so appreciate your advice.
What do you think about myofascial release? Do you ever incorporate it into your own personal practice with balls or foam rollers, or ever recommend it to your students? Why or why not?
What are your favorite things about being a physical therapist?
How did you grow LYT Yoga so fast?

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/

Do you have a question?

DM Lara on Instagram: @lara.heimann

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