by Dr Monica Gauci | Aug 3, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video, Pranayama
It is very common for people to have a restricted, tight diaphragm muscle. The reasons it becomes tight and dysfunctional are just as common: stress, pain, anxiety, shock and emotion upsets. And yet the function of this muscle is vitally important for our mental,...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Jul 14, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
This exercise is great if you have just injured a disc or have an old disc injury that has not healed. The deep stabilising spinal muscles (especially multifidi) are traumatised with any low back injury. They even begin to waste within 24-hours! To prevent this or to...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Jun 17, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
This exercise not only strengthens the muscles that are on the back of our body (the posterior chain of the hamstrings, gluteals and paraspinals), but especially activates and strengthens the deep stabilising muscles along our spine. These muscles are responsible for...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Mar 29, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Asana, Audio/Video
Many yogis think it is never good to round their low back in yoga. Wrong. We need to be able to round our low back in many yoga postures. This video shows you how to tell if your abdominals are not strong enough or if your low back muscles are too tight to enable you...
by Dr Monica Gauci | Feb 24, 2021 | Anatomy/Rehabilitation, Audio/Video
My favourite whole-body strengthening exercise! This exercise strongly works latissimus dorsi and the psoas muscles as well as other muscles of our expanded core. As these two muscles exclusively connect our arms and legs to our spine, this movement pattern...
