Let me tell you about my soccer-playin’ husband’s pelvic-health history. Husband: “In high school I started getting deep hip and low back pain. I went to the doctor, who gave me an X-ray, which led him to conclude that there was a tendon rubbing across the bone of the pelvis. Looking back with what I know now, it was probably…read more →
My mom’s disciplinary mantra was “You’re the captain of your own ship.” This later worked against her, as you can imagine, but I’d like to say THANK YOU to my mom today. For recognizing what type of fertilizer I needed to grow. I love you. For all nerds with children, and mother’s of nerds — today’s biology lesson is for…read more →
Did you see this article on breast cancer, To Revert Breast Cancer Cells, Give Them the Squeeze? You should read it because it’s important. “We are showing that tissue organization is sensitive to mechanical inputs from the environment at the beginning stages of growth and development,” said principal investigator Daniel Fletcher, professor of bioengineering at Berkeley and faculty scientist at…read more →
I’ve tried to break down the complex phenomenon of joint laxity in this post on hypermobility. Sometimes a visual can make a concept easier to grasp. This movie contains an example of my shoulder (glenohumeral) joint moving relative to itself — something you don’t want to happen if you value long-term function of your joints. Watch how a load (a…read more →
We are a society obsessed with proof. And as presenter of not-the-mainstream scientific information for non-scientists, I often get requests like “show me the proof that X is good or bad.” The request is understandable, and to save time in the future, I thought I’d share a response I just posted on our Facebook page responding to such a request….read more →
