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I don’t know why exactly, but one Sunday morning I woke up with excruciating lower back pain on my left side. Had I slept weirdly? Was it an accumulation of small insults? Who knows. All I knew was I couldn’t take a deep breath or raise my left arm because…

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This yoga to open hips and stretch the lower back is part of the Prime Women 30-Day Fitness Challenge. If you haven’t yet, get all the details and learn how you can participate! All you need is 5 minutes a day for 30 days to commit to a healthier you! >JOIN…

This 3 part yoga sequence for back stretching is part of the Prime Women 30-Day Fitness Challenge. If you haven’t yet, get all the details and learn how you can participate! All you need is 5 minutes a day for 30 days to commit to a healthier you! Complete Day 4:…

My left knee had been bothering me. I thought, ignore it and it will go away, and it worked for a while! Then came the day when I couldn’t ignore it anymore. Walking in front of a nurse at my doctor's office, she said, “You’d better get that knee looked…

When your back hurts, there's nothing like some good stretches to release tightness and gently nudge your spine back into alignment. While you'll benefit in many areas of your body, this collection of stretches are yoga poses for back pain specifically. > STUDIES FIND THAT YOGA HELPS DEPRESSION: SAY OM…

Sponsored Post The sudden onslaught of twinges, tweaks, aches and things that suddenly go *ping* can seriously make us question that whole “age is just a number” philosophy. I’m a distance runner, so being in some amount of pain somewhere nearly all the time isn’t that unusual for me. However,…

The Priorat wine region is located just two hours southwest of Barcelona and sits at the foot of the magnificent Montsant Mountains (Serra de Montsant means “Holy Mountain Range.”) The wines of Priorat are considered some of the world’s finest. The landscape begs for a leisurely hike from village to…

When your knees hurt, it’s hard to exercise. Knee pain that you experience during, or after, exercise can be enough to deter you from even trying. If you’re a woman over 55, you’re at a greater chance for developing osteoarthritis (OA), the wear and tear type of stress that occurs…

The devil is in the details. So it is with exercise! Small mistakes that could be causing back pain often lurk not in the exercises themselves, but in subtle ways you’re holding yourself as you do them. Here are the 4 things you may be doing that can harm your…

Want to do lower body exercise but find squats and lunges just aren't possible without joint pain? Never fear. We have tapped our friend and contributing fitness editor, Debra Atkinson of Flipping Fifty, to show us how to work our glutes and hammies safely. She walks us through finding the right…

You look down at your computer. You sometimes sit there for hours. After dinner, you relax by plopping your iPad or laptop on your lap and stare down at social media. There's even a new term for what we are doing to our neck. "Text neck" is the modern term for…