The Dragon's Head Blog
Notes on Anatomy and Physiology: Teaching Our Art in a Nursing Home
Not quite seven years ago, a well-known Australian geriatrician and member of the Taoist Tai Chi Society, Dr. Dick Lefroy, sent me a tape of people practicing the Taoist Tai Chi® arts. All were residents of a long-term care facility. Each was dealing with dementia or with another disabling medical condition such as motor neuron […]
Notes on Anatomy and Physiology: The Spinal Ligaments – Holding All The Parts Together
Thus far we have been introduced to a number of the components of the spinal column – the vertebrae themselves, the intervertebral discs and the facet joints. We have looked briefly at both lumbar disc disease and spinal stenosis and gained a sense of how these conditions affect, and are affected, by posture and movement in […]
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