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Athletes stretch for top performance in their sports. This type of stretching is dynamic, meaning everything moves – the arms, legs, back and head. Athletes doing dynamic stretching move through the different stretches, but don’t hold them for more than a few seconds....

Chances are you’re seated right now, hunched over a keyboard. hunched-over-keyboards. If you’ve spent most or all of your workday in this position, you are a candidate for fatigue and soreness starting at the neck and working down the back. Those are the postural...

People all over the globe, as many as 80% of some populations such as in the United States, will suffer a painful back injury in their lifetime. These injuries result in lifestyles being altered, production being lost, and high healthcare costs impacting...

At the beginning of every new year many of us evaluate what we had accomplished the previous year and set new goals for the next twelve months. On the top of most lists of resolutions is personal "health." We all realize that "pain," "lack of energy," "worry,"...

Not only would they continue to use military force against the cartels, but would concurrently launch a nationwide "Values and Morals Program" to educate children and families across Colombia. National Police were trained on how to implement programs based on a...

The following newsletter is about a topic that caused me a tremendous amount of stress, long work hours, and employees that became all too dependent on me. That is until I learned a simple yet powerful management strategy that changed my life at work and at home. It...

Twenty years ago or so when conducting research into why back injuries wouldn't go away, we discovered some interesting facts. Risk Managers, Operation Managers, HR Directors, and Safety Professionals uniformly complained that when it came to preventing back injuries,...

Twenty years ago I thought I stepped into the twilight zone.  We were conducting research into how to prevent workplace strain/sprains, particularly back injuries. We were told by several companies in the U.S., Canada and Australia that despite years of trying, they...

News Flash - Due to the inordinate number of back injuries over the last three decades I began to wonder if my design of the spine was incorrect.There have been many reports of defective backs, much more so than other parts of the musculoskeletal system. Moreover,...

In today’s world of network news, cable news, talk radio and the internet, we are bombarded with news from across the globe. However, have you noticed what the purveyors of news sell as "news"? Why is "news" almost always bad news? Why isn’t good news considered...

By Dennis Downing Back injuries have been the bane of industry for decades. They are the source of high dollar claims, significant lost workdays, and can instantaneously ruin one’s quality of life forever. Corporate America, despite many attempts, has not been able to...

By Dennis Downing It is has been widely reported that 80% of our population will experience a back incident in their lifetime. That extraordinary number would make one wonder if the spine is designed to withstand the rigors of our work and daily activities.Considering...

If one looks at the essence of management or life in general, success boils down to the degree of one being more the cause of things versus being more the effect ofthings.The baseball player who can hit the ball with regularity is causing the effect versus the batter...