by Enid Whittaker | Nov 28, 2025 | Blog
We understand that fitness starts at birth and that the first six years are the most important times to build the body…as well as language skills, manners, curiosity, courage, etc. We understand that the body that is built between birth and six and honed from six to...
by Enid Whittaker | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
Tests are useless without a program. Where is the program? It is true that the PFT dates back to the mid-1950s when the results of the Kraus-Weber Testing for Minimum Strength and Flexibility conducted by Dr. Hans Kraus and Bonnie Prudden were published in 1953 and...
by Enid Whittaker | Aug 29, 2025 | Blog
Whether you apply ELBOW GREASE, need a bit of ELBOW ROOM or plan to ELBOW THROUGH the elbow is an important joint. We lean on our elbows, we give friendly pokes with our elbows, we close doors with our elbows, and we lift with our elbows. But we hardly give them a...
by Enid Whittaker | Jul 30, 2025 | Blog
Although much research is being done on Parkinson’s it is agreed that at this time at least the cause of PD is unknown and that the disease can’t be cured. It is also agreed that both exercise and music are key to improving some of the classic symptoms: tremor, motor...
by Enid Whittaker | Jun 27, 2025 | Blog
In 1953, Margaret Bourke-White developed her first symptoms of Parkinson’s which forced her to slow her career in order to fight the encroaching paralysis. In 1959 and 1961 she underwent several operations to treat her condition, which ended her tremors but...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Jun 1, 2025 | Blog
IF YOU FOLLOWED my directions to put your house in order PART I, you are on your way to passing the Kraus-Weber Minimum Fitness Test for strength and flexibility of key posture muscles: abdominals, psoas, upper back, lower back, and back and hamstring...
