by Andrew Schaeffer | Dec 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Professional Performance Artists Coping with Injury In the world of professional performance arts—be it dance, theater, music, or circus—physical injury is often considered a career-altering event. For performance artists, their body is their instrument, and any...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Jul 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Kinesio tape can look pretty cool. The designs it makes across your body are vaguely reminiscent of war paint, conveying a hint of toughness to onlookers. It’s like you’re saying “nothing can stop me, not even pain!” Of course, while the aesthetic is fun, the actual...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
There have been a lot of studies and articles declaring how bad sitting is for you. Sitting is the new smoking, they say. It’s all probably a bit over-sensationalized, however, there is one thing that is undeniable: sitting is not helping your posture. And it isn’t...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Mar 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last year, Witold Rybczynski published Now I Sit Me Down, a book about the history of the chair. In an interview for The Atlantic, he was asked about standing desks, to which he responded, “I really don’t think we’re in the age of the standing desk.” The author goes...
by Andrew Schaeffer | Jan 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
The hip hinge is a fundamental movement of the body. Doing it well is key for everything from squats and deadlifts to child’s pose and bird-dog. The Hip Hinge When you bend over there are two ways to do it. You can move through the hips or through the spine....