by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Sep 1, 2023 | Blog
THE TENSOR FASCIA LATAE is an important but often overlooked muscle. Although it is located in the lateral front of the upper leg it is considered to be a part of the gluteal set. To my mind one if its most important and interesting functions is to put tension on the...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Aug 1, 2023 | Blog
PAIN IS A WARNING. Get your hand off the stove. Go to the ER and get that bloody gash sewed up. This is acute pain, you can see there is something wrong and it tells you you’d better do something pronto. But what about joint pain in hips and knees that creeps...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Jul 1, 2023 | Blog
THE ADDUCTOR MAGNUS, BREVIS, and LONGUS, as well as the GRACILIS and PECTINEUS on the inside of the upper leg, are responsible for pulling the leg toward the midline and assisting in flexion and medial rotation of hip. Like any other muscle group the adductors...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Jun 1, 2023 | Blog
THE HARVARD MEDICAL School suggests that water is an ideal place to exercise. I would say that is true — but unless you add music it can be the same old boring stuff. Advantages of Water It is easier on your joints since the natural buoyancy lessens the impact....
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | May 1, 2023 | Blog
The medical term for that is URINARY RETENTION. It is the inability to pass urine in your bladder, and it can be acute or chronic. In the acute stage there is the sudden inability to urinate. In the chronic stage it is a gradual or slow inability to empty the...
by Enid Whittaker, CBPM ~ Managing Director, Bonnie Prudden Myotherapy® | Apr 1, 2023 | Blog
I WAS ONE OF the lucky ones. Born in 1938, I had the run of the yard, the adjoining woods, no TV, and no processed food. The vegetable garden was our market, the library our source for books, the drugstore for an occasional ice-cream, and for transportation: our legs!...
