Helping You Get Straight and Strong with Kathryn Merrow, The Pain Relief Coach
Posted in leg pain on Sep 27th, 2011
Hamstring muscles tight? Want to know how to get rid of the tightness? Well, this will probably come as a surprise to you. Your hamstrings aren’t the problem. Almost always, the problem is that your quadricep muscles in the front of your thigh are too tight. They are stronger than your hamstrings. Your ‘tight hamstrings’ [...]
Posted in exercise, knee pain, leg pain, strength on Jan 10th, 2009
Maybe you have knee pain, and maybe you don’t. Maybe your legs feel weak or maybe they feel “out of balance” or “too tight.” Your legs were designed to be used in certain ways. But, lots of times, for all kinds of reasons, we “forget” how we used to climb stairs. Sometimes, we just “clomp” [...]
Posted in leg pain, pain, posture, strength on Aug 23rd, 2008
I was starting to have “crabby” knees, and decided I had to do something about it. I remembered working with a man who had severe damage to both knees. He told me he could walk without pain, even on stairs, as long as he kept the muscles around his knees strong. He did this with [...]
If your legs feel weak, or achey, here’s a solution for you. We were built for movement and when we don’t move enough – when we spend too much time in a chair or car – our leg muscles get out of balance and lose strength. Balance and strength occur when we use our legs. When we use [...]
If a doctor looked at an x-ray of any one of us, he or she would say, “Oh, you have arthritis.” When the doctor can see bony changes in an x-ray, the assumption is that’s the reason for our hip pain as well as any other complaints we have. Well, maybe. Maybe not. We all [...]
Posted in leg pain, pain, posture, strength on Nov 25th, 2007
Shins? Why on earth would you need to have strong shins muscles? Here’s why. 1. Strong shin muscles create balance between your strong calves and the front of your lower leg. 2. They help prevent charley-horses, or cramps, in your calves. 3. They help create balanced posture. A balanced body has less pain. 4. And, I [...]
