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Strengthening Your Pelvic Floor

Welcome to this webinar, Strengthening Your Pelvic Floor! Click here to listen to this episode of the Discover Health Podcast: https://feeds.podetize.com/ep/aOz6lC3KnC/media Thank you all for joining us today! I am Dr. Trish Murray – physician, best-selling author, and the Health Catalyst Speaker. I am so excited to have Jim Chaput, an Applied Movement Neurology Master joining me…

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Understanding How Your Brain Affects Your Movement

Hello, everyone! Welcome to today’s episode of Discover Health podcast. I’m Dr. Trish Murray – physician, best-selling author, and the Health Catalyst Speaker. I am so excited to have Jim Chaput today with me on our show! Hi Jim! Good afternoon. Welcome to the show. Jim, I’m going to read your bio and then we’re going to…

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Discover Yoga

Click here to listen: Balance and Yoga Hey, folks! I’m Dr. Trish Murray. I am a physician, I am a best-selling author, and I am the Health Catalyst Speaker. I do a regular podcast entitled Discover Health Podcast. Today, I’m interviewing on the podcast Meghan Vestal. Hi, Meghan! How are you today? Hi, Dr. Trish. How are you?…

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Managing Arthritis

Click here to listen to this episode of the Discover Health Podcast: https://feeds.podetize.com/ep/f_D1qPjwU/media Welcome to this talk on managing arthritis! I’m Dr. Trish Murray – physician, best-selling author, and the Health Catalyst Speaker. I am so happy you are joining me today! I am motivated to help you take control of your health so you…

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Your Bones Matter

Click here to listen to this episode on Discover Health Podcast: https://feeds.podetize.com/ep/kPxSiuiaf/media Welcome everyone! I’m Dr. Trish Murray – physician, author, and the Health Catalyst Speaker. Tonight, we’re going to take a deep dive into bone health. Folks, first of all, at birth we have around 270 soft bones. As we grow, some fuse together leaving…

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“Diagnosis and Management of Plantar Fasciitis”: Evidence Based Clinical Review

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, December 2014, Vol 114, Number 12, 900-906   The plantar fascia spans from the medial aspect of the calcaneus distally to the base of each proximal phalanx.  In plantar fasciitis the most medial aspect of the plantar fascia that attaches to the first proximal phalanx is what typically…

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The Scapulo-Thoracic Joint

Last week I reviewed general functional anatomy concepts of the shoulder and reviewed a myofascial release technique for the shoulder girdle.  This week I want to discuss another amazingly effective technique for improving function of the shoulder girdle.  This technique focuses on the myofascial tissues between the thoracic spine and the scapula to optimize function…

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The Shoulder

I taught over Columbus Day Weekend at a reunion conference at UNECOM and covered the shoulder. So, here are the highlights of my presentation.  First of all the shoulder is the most mobile joint of the body with a very shallow glenohumeral joint that is made deeper by the labrum.  The rotator cuff consisting of…

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Modeled Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments: A Review of Their in Vitro Effects on Fibroblast Tissue Preparations

“Modeled Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments:  A Review of Their in Vitro Effects on Fibroblast Tissue Preparations”;  Manal Zein-Hammoud, PhD and Paul Standley, PhD; The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association; August 2015, vol. 115, Number 8, pp. 490-501.   In this last blog summarizing this article I will discuss Dr. Standley’s most recent studies looking at…

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Body Mass Index and Musculoskeletal Pain: is there a Connection?

  Body Mass Index and Musculoskeletal Pain: is there a Connection? David R. Seaman; Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2013, 21:15. Now that I have spent a number of weeks reviewing Dr. Houston’s Functional Medicine approach to cardiovascular disease, let’s get back to more of a structural focus. This article explores the concept that adiposity can…

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