Karena Thek's newest book, "The Pilates Golf Athlete," takes golfers through the five principles of Pilates and how each one can help improve their game and eliminate pain. Thek hosts "Alive and Well" on KHTS AM-1220.
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Are Sports Hurting Your Child, By Karena Thek Lineback
By: Karena Thek Lineback Injuries are rampant in children’s sports. Competition is fierce. Practice times are increased. Expectations are high. The coaches, having more children to work with than ever before, don’t have the time to correct form and without it, injury is inevitable. When parents jump in to fill the coaching need, child physical development may not be an ...
Read More »Managing Scoliosis With Exercise, By Karena Thek
By: Karena Thek Lineback Traditionally, scoliosis is managed through observation, bracing and surgery. Scolio-Pilates, Exercise for Scoliosis, A Proactive Guide (Pilates Teck Publications, 2011), aims to add exercise to that list. Research, published as early as 1924, shows tremendous promise for employing exercise as an option in scoliosis treatment. In 1924, Katharina Schroth, a German physical therapist who dedicated her ...
Read More »Chronic Back Pain: It’s All In Your Head, By Karena Thek Lineback
By: Karena Thek Lineback | Pilates Teck Your pain is all in your head…so to speak. Chronic, or ongoing, pain is the result of the neurological system ‘protecting’ you from further injury. Pain becomes a safety mechanism to control your actions from creating further damage. In other words, your brain doesn’t trust you to do the right thing. Your brain ...
Read More »Scoliosis: It’s Not Just For Children Anymore
Adults are the forgotten step-child of scoliosis. Adults can develop a scoliosis as a result of an injury, an accident or chronic pain.
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