Alignment Matters: The First Five Years of Katy Says

For how many hours a week is a chair pressing on your hamstrings? How does this constant pressure affect the blood vessels running down to your feet or the nerves in the pelvis?

Over time, heavy use of your body in one particular pattern makes strong tissues next to weaker ones, which creates an environment where an injury can slowly develop. The frequent consumption of varied movement is what drives essential physiological processes.

On the other hand, an under-moved area of the body will experience increases in the connective tissues found within muscle itself. I like to call these extra-connected areas your “sticky spots.” Being extra-connected is a great thing when you’re talking about your family, your community, your career, or wi-fi. Having one muscle overly connected to

While perhaps accurate in certain situations (like standing, for an hour, holding your tuba, in a marching band), chronic knee flexion is not optimal for the human knee. But knee flexion doesn’t only shorten the calf muscles, it shortens the muscles on the back of the thigh as well. Over time, this shortness can pull the pelvis into a posterior til