🧔🏻Welcome back to #THRIVINTHURSDAYS, and HAPPY Thanksgiving! Due to the increase in holiday running, such as a Turkey trot, Lauren and I thought it would be helpful to discuss what type of soreness you may be feeling and what you can do about it. Muscle soreness is certainly a normal thing to experience especially when you have pushed your body and ran a little further or at a greater intensity than normal. Areas that you may feel soreness in are the feet, calves, hamstrin

👩🏽 Happy #Thrivinthursdays! Today we’re talking about PROLAPSE aka pelvic organ prolapse aka “That wasn’t there before!”. I recently had the pleasure of talking about this with Ali and Karly on their podcast @Birthkweens so I wanted to give you a quick overview of what prolapse is in case you missed it! Watch this 8ish-minute video and following pictures for some info on: What prolapse is. What types of prolapse there are. How prolapses are graded by severity. Self-assessme

👩🏽 We are talking about sleeping posture, people! What were you thinking!?! Anyways, Happy #Thrivinthursdays! We hope this finds you well and NOT in a post-Halloween binge candy eating coma. But, if you ARE, then here are some tips for you! Food/candy coma or not, we spend a lot of time lying around and sleeping, so sleeping posture is pretty important! *Granted, many of you may be in a season of no sleep right now so...save this post for later! This too shall pass :) Peopl

👩🏽 Happy #Thrivinthursdays and Happy Halloween! Today’s post has nothing to do with Halloween but EVERYTHING to do with showing you how KICK ASS my patients are! This is Paula. She’s 2.5 years postpartum and Crossfit is her thing. *No, not everyone needs to do Crossfit or work out hard anywhere for that matter! Not every Mom needs to jump right back in to exercise. BUT, every Mom needs to know she’s encouraged to take time for herself and capable of working toward what she

Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! Last of this series! You’ve already received the first four progressions: supine, side-lying, quadruped and sitting. Now, continuing to follow along how babies do, we’re on to standing! CORE PROGRESSION: SUPINE (lying on your back) SIDE-LYING (lying on your side) QUADRUPED (on all fours) SITTING STANDING Again, even more important than knowing the progression to follow, is remembering THE BASICS! So, read THE BASICS, again. Maybe say them out loud! Ke

Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! The break down continues! So far you’ve received the first two progressions: supine and side-lying. Now, continuing to follow along how babies do, we’re on to quadruped! CORE PROGRESSION: SUPINE (lying on your back) SIDE-LYING (lying on your side) QUADRUPED (on all fours) SITTING STANDING Again, even more important than knowing the progression to follow, is remembering THE BASICS! So, read THE BASICS, again. Maybe say them out loud! Keep these in min

👩🏽Welcome back and happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS to you! Now it’s time to break it down. Last time, we gave you a progression mimicking how babies progress themselves through core strengthening and coordination. If you forgot, go back to last post or check it right here. CORE PROGRESSION: SUPINE (lying on your back) SIDE LYING (lying on your side) QUADRUPED (on all fours) SITTING STANDING Babies are pretty freaking smart, so we like to do it their way! This week we’re tackling th

Heyyoo! Happy #Thrivinthursdays everyone! Last week we talked about crawling as one of the steps of a great core strengthening and coordination progression. This week, we figured we’d give you an overall look at an example of a whole progression, so you can jump in, take a step back or progress accordingly. The idea is that you progress your core exercises from easy to hard. Genius, right? Actually, often times this can be hard to tell! So, a good rule of thumb is to progress

Welcome back to #THRIVINTHURSDAYS, today we are going to talk about a very functional movement that hopefully, everyone has performed at some point in their life but likely stink at it now…… CRAWLING!!! Crawling is a vital step for developing good core control in babies and maintaining it in adulthood. Actually, progressing core strength and control just as babies do is a phenomenal idea for adults, especially when working with a diastasis recti! We’ve skipped a few of those

Hello everyone and Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! Percussion massage devices have been BLOWING up! This is great, so we want to make sure that everyone is using them to their FULL potential and understand what to do after you use the hyper volt to maintain the mobility you gained. Most movement dysfunctions are made up of at least three components: Mechanical: This includes dysfunction in soft tissue, fascia, tendons, bones, joints and many more. The percussion massage device c

Happy #Thrivinthursdays y’all! I wanted to share a fun example of how to involve the partner in birth prep! I do this mobilization a lot with my Mama patients who are 37 weeks and beyond and ready to meet their babies earthside! Helping to open the pelvis, create more space for baby, and get Mama moving. This night was a fun one, filled with dinner, dancing in the living room, and this innominate mobilization in the comfort of Mom and Dad’s bedroom. Support for our Mamas is A

Welcome back to #THRIVINTHURSDAYS, today we are talking about a So Cal favorite….SURFING! Surfing is an amazing sport that requires a lot of complex movements, strength, endurance, and coordination. A couple of common weaknesses that someone(like myself) could feel while they are surfing are paddling and the pop-up. These complex movements will require both upper and lower extremity strength with full trunk and pelvic engagement to fully own the movement. The paddle and pop-

Welcome back to #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! Today we are going to talk about elbow pain. Have you ever been told you have (insert sport name) elbow diagnosis, WELL LISTEN UP! Over the past several months I have been treating many patients with various types of elbow pain due to various types of sports or overuse issues.  Most of these patients were told that they either had the dreaded medial or lateral epicondylitis or golf/tennis/climbing or whatever sport you want elbow.  Usually,

Today’s #THRIVINTHURSDAYS is going to introduce you to a VERY important muscle in the shoulder girdle called the SERRATUS ANTERIOR! This muscle is commonly overlooked, under-activated or incorrectly activated. But, when you get it, you’ll be ahead of the game and have a much stronger and more stable shoulder girdle! The SERRATUS ANTERIOR muscle attaches on the front side of the shoulder blade at the medial border to the top 9 ribs and its job is to help to rotate the shoulde

👩🏽🧔🏻Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS!!!!! Hip tension is a very common dysfunction that can limit many things. From normal daily activities like picking up your children to higher level activities like rock climbing. Doesn't matter what you're doing, if you have tension, it can be extremely painful! Here is a simple test to see if your hips, hamstrings or both are the culprit. Sit on the floor with your legs out in front of you. We call this "long sitting." Try to stack your body

🧔🏻Hello and Happy  #THRIVINTHURSDAYS!!!!! Reaching for that cereal box got ya down? Well, more specifically, do you have shoulder pain while lifting your arms overhead? This is usually a combination of shoulder girdle muscle tension and/or muscle weakness (FYI a tight muscle is usually a sign of a weak muscle)! We have a very simple movement you can perform to help get that body THRIVIN! Check out the video below as Dr. Snyder walks you through this but let's explain it fir

👩🏾Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! Today we’re talking about that burning, very annoying pain on the inside or above the shoulder blade that so many people get! We see this issue a lot and it’s usually from bad alignment of the head, neck and shoulder blades and strength issues of those areas. And, we hate to break it to you, it’s usually not just because a muscle is tight and you need to rub it out! Did you read that? DON’T JUST RUB IT OUT! You gotta also LINE IT UP & WORK IT OUT!

🧔🏻Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS!!!!! Today we thought it would be helpful to highlight an actual friend/patient’s journey through pain, posture, confusion, breathing, a lot of spinning and eventually coming out the other side as a THRIVING, mobile, pain-free human that looks forward to whatever life throws at her. Not to mention she has a great tan! (see video below). This testimonial really highlights what Lauren and I are truly passionate about, which is helping people understa

👩🏼👋🏼 Courtney here, I help with some of the marketing behind THRIVE and this week I’m taking over #THRIVINTHURSDAYS to give you a little looksie at our Doctors of Movement outside of the office. Might be biased, but they’re pretty dope. FUN FACTS: Dr. Mallari could most likely dance before she was even able to walk, has been competitively dancing from the age of 9 and her high school song team went undefeated - 🎉🔥💃🏽Los Al what up?! Dr. Snyder is lucky enough to have a

🧔🏻Hello everyone and Happy #THRIVINTHURSDAYS! Today we are talking about upper extremity tension, what could be causing it and how to reduce it. There are many things in the upper extremity that can become tight: fascia, muscle, nerve, artery, vein, lymph and many more. We are really only going to discuss the difference between muscle tension and nerve tension and what to do about it. Muscle tension is usually local tension that truly feels like something is stretching.