Your mom told you to sit and stand up straight and you didn’t listen. You were too cool for that. Slouching snubbed the strictures of puritanical rigidity. Slouching was more down to earth, more human, more humble. You left the confines of your childhood and your mother’s world of rules, manners, and straight backed chairs. […]
My name is Bryan Ausinheiler, I am a physical therapist with advanced training in orthopedics as well as a personal trainer and nutritionist. I have been publishing articles on human posture, movement and pain since 2012. A central question of my blog is the relationship between these three things: posture, movement and pain. Does the […]
“By the way, thanks.” It was a crumb, but I savored it. Over an irregular and protracted course of physical therapy treatment, most sessions had begun with “My pain isn’t any better,” consisted of complex re-evaluation and treatment all the time fielding skeptical questions like “do you really think this will help?” and ending with […]
Is My Pain Caused by Stress? In a previous post I mentioned research showing that the prevalence of neck pain was 33.9% in people undergoing serious psychological distress. Is my upper back pain caused by stress at work? Is the nerve pain in my butt caused by relationship problems? Is the lower back pain I felt […]
In a previous post I discussed how to self-measure your ability to touch your toes. I promised a similar assessment for those who could easily touch their toes but wanted to find out what was limiting their pike (aka: forward pike, jack knife, seated forward fold, caterpillar, Paschimottanasana). Now I am following through on that […]
The short answer is no. Pain is not a measure of bodily damage. Rather pain is a response that the brain creates to motivate you to protect yourself when the stimuli it receives are interpreted as dangerous. Pain is an output, not an input [1,2]. Sensation vs Perception Heat, cold, pressure, sweetness, light, vibration etc are senses*. […]
A Question Which is worse for your neck and lower back, sitting in front of a screen for several hours answering e-mail or sitting in front the Heads-Up-Display of a fighter jet, being whipped left and right by G-forces while your life is on the line? Some Data The Research Approach It turns out there is […]
The Origin of My Logo The deep squat and handstand has been my logo since I launched this blog in 2012 and became the logo of my physical therapy, personal training and bike fitting business in 2014. When I was brainstorming logos in 20012 I was reading Grey Cook’s description of the overhead deep squat […]
A Question Bradley Wiggins broke the world record for longest distance covered on a bicycle in one hour by riding 54.526km on June 7th, 2015. Because 90% of the resistance when biking on a level surface above 12mph comes from air drag and 70% of that drag comes from the rider [1], significant attention was […]
What’s the best stretching routine for a cyclist? I’ve been asked “What are the best stretches for cyclists” on several occasions. The best answer to this questions is “It depends on where the cyclist is tight.” Different people have different mobility restrictions and the exercise that is perfect for you may be a waste of […]
Posture Movement Pain 