by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Nov 1, 2019 | Blog
SCOLIOSIS MEANS a curvature of the spine and is more common than you might think. “It comes from the Greek work skilios, for twisted and means an appreciable lateral deviation in the normally straight, vertical spine. Like headaches there are a lot of words used to...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog
Mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body) “A SOUND MIND in a sound body” was the cherished motto of the citizens of Rome, and as long as they lived by it, Rome ruled the world. The decline of the Roman Empire began when its citizens abandoned...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Sep 1, 2019 | Blog
HAPPY FEET ARE strong, flexible and pain-free and they take you where you want to go joyfully. There are 26 bones in the human foot, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and tendons. The 52 bones in your feet make up about 25 percent of all the bones in your...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
LOW BACK PAIN costs America about $50 billion in health care costs each year. Add in lost wages and decreased productivity and that figure rises to more than $1000 billion. About 3.1 million Americans experience low back pain at any given time preventing people...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog
-itis: a suffix occurring in words that denote an inflammation or disease affecting a given part of the body (appendicitis; bronchitis; phlebitis); also forming nouns, often nonce words, that denote an obsessive state of mind or tendency facetiously compared to a...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Jun 1, 2019 | Blog
LONG BEFORE YOU SEE the shoulders round, before the scoliosis and forward head are noticed, before the foot turn-out becomes a hip problem, before the abdominal pouch and sway back begin to tell as back pain… your muscles are doing their thing. Muscles become...
