Hasn’t walked without walking aids since 1998…until now

November 8th, 2007

Today I witnessed one of those amazing events that inspire me to do what I do. The irony is, I wasn’t the one working with this client. Our lead Corrective Exercise Specialist Adrienne Navarra was responsible for this client.

A young woman who had many unsuccessful hip surgeries walked today after her session without crutches or walking sticks for the first time since 1998. This young woman is amazing in a lot of ways. Just by talking with her, you would never know that she has had any physical “challenges” to deal with. She is the most delightful, upbeat person you would ever want to meet.

She was referred to us by her chiropractor. Her chiropractor has helped her significantly. He also knew that our program is what she needed to get to the next level. On her first appointment, this young woman could not believe that Adrienne had identified movement issues and musculoskeletal relationships that none of the other “specialists” in the last 10 years could see.

Once Adrienne developed the strategy to begin addressing those issues, the changes have been profound. This young woman began to tear up as she thought about how thrilled her parents were going to be when she showed them how she could walk across the room without her walking aids.

It was a great thing to see.

Anthony Carey M.A., CSCS, CES

Holiday hurting

November 7th, 2007

Today I was thinking about the next educational talk I was going to do for the San Diego community. A great December talk would be on the role holiday stress plays on the increase in musculoskeletal symptoms. But then I realized that same stress is what most people would use to rationalize why they couldn’t make it to the talk!

You can not separate psychological tension from musculoskeletal tension. Pile on an increase in alcohol and sugar consumption, mix in some late nights (less sleep) and you’ve got the holiday recipe for pain production.

If you are a Function First client or are using the exercises from my book, The Pain-Free Program: A Proven Method to Relieve Back, Neck, Shoulder and Joint Pain the holidays are not the time to take a holiday from your exercises. You may need them more now than ever.

Stress is a product of reduced control. Your exercise program gives you control. Keep that in mind now before you get causght up in the worldwind of the holidays.

Best in Health

Anthony Carey M.A., CSCS, CES

Anthony Carey’s welcome post

November 5th, 2007

One of the major reasons I wanted to start a blog for health pros is because I know that if you are reading this than you want to hear what my therapists and I have to say. You can look forward to technical posts from myself, Adrienne Navarra and Zac Marshall. You can also look forward to a little controversy.

We don’t plan to appease everyone with what we will be posting. Understand that we will be sharing our thoughts on what works for our clientèle. This will not mesh with everyone. And that is OK. At that same time, I don’t plan to be some arrogant SOB who is going to hide behind a blog to get things off of my chest.

Those of you that know me know how much I respect the work and efforts of so many other people in the field. I don’t agree with them all. But I respect them.

So this is going to be fun.

Anthony Carey M.A., CSCS, CES

Function First has entered the blogosphere

November 3rd, 2007

We are looking forward to communicating regularly with the Function First community on a consistent basis. We will be posting information for our consumer clients and for the health professional community that seeks to learn more about the Function First Approach.