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Tera Sandona

ql exercises

November 7, 2023 · In: Back, Mobility and Restoration, Movement

Quadratus Lumborum: Stretches and Exercises to Relieve Back Pain

Have you experienced back pain after a day out on the golf course? Or what about a long day of work after repeatedly twisting to one side? Even going for…

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hip internal rotation

October 31, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Hip, Science-Backed Education

Hip Internal Rotation and Why It Is Important

Hip internal rotation is one of the most commonly limited movements of the hip. Improving range in this direction can help with countless activities. This includes squatting and helping to…

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ankle pain when walking

October 24, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Foot/Ankle, Science-Backed Education

Ankle Pain When Walking? Why it Hurts and How to Fix It

Have you had times where you have gone our grocery shopping or gotten up for your daily walk only to have your ankle start bothering you just minutes in? Ankle…

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hamstring stiffness

October 17, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Hip, Science-Backed Education

Chronic Hamstring Stiffness? Here’s What You Need to Know

Hamstring stiffness affects a lot of people. Why are the hamstrings a commonly stiff muscle group? This post will address anatomy of the hamstrings, reasons stiffness may occur, and exercises…

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tech neck help

October 10, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Neck/Jaw, Science-Backed Education

What You Should Know About Tech Neck: Relieve the Pain

With the use of smartphones and electronics on the rise, a normal day’s work and simple mindless scrolling can sometimes end in pain. Tech neck is on the rise as…

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knee pain hiking downhill

October 3, 2023 · In: Body Region Support, Knee, Science-Backed Education

Knee Pain Hiking Downhill: Prevention and Treatment

Are you one of the many individuals who has experienced knee pain hiking downhill? You start off on a great day of hiking, especially in the warmer weather of SoCal,…

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I'm a practicing physical therapist based out of sunny SoCal who loves to educate others and share information and knowledge. You can typically find me hard at work trying to manage normal life or cuddled up under a blanket enjoying coffee or desserts I can never seem to get away from!

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It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crash It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crashing on weekends. You’re still crashing on weekends and now you’re blaming yourself for that, too.

It’s Friday night. You’ve made it through the deadline week. You can’t even think about what to make for dinner…it’s too much. You scroll for hours. You go to bed early thinking sleep will fix it. Saturday morning you wake up worse than you were on Friday and the thought that lands is “why is this so hard, it’s just work, I should be able to handle this.”

Your nervous system was running in elevated mode all week. Cortisol up, heart rate up, fatigue signals overridden to keep the output going. Once the demand drops, the body downshifts and the fatigue you’ve been overriding all week comes through. The crash isn’t new. It’s the same fatigue you’ve been carrying, finally surfacing.

But, the body isn’t the hard part of this. The hard part is what you do with yourself once the crash hits. You confuse rest with being unproductive and feeling unproductive with being inadequate. The moment you crash, you become the sole believer of the thought that you’ve failed.

No one else is thinking that. Not your family, not your colleagues, not your friends. You’re the only voice in the room running that thought. I’ve watched myself do this too.

When the crash lands this Saturday, notice who’s telling you the truth about the week you just had. The body is honest. The voice calling you a failure is not.

#burnoutrecovery #chronicpain #burnoutfatigue #highachievingwomen #nervoussystemregulation
April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈 Lots April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈

Lots of food pics as I reminisce about all the tasty food I can’t have while Alex and I do the ProLon fasting mimicking diet for the next 5 days 😬
Some of the work does not look like work at all. Some of the work does not look like work at all.

Sometimes it looks like rest. Sometimes it looks like saying no. Sometimes it looks like doing 10 minutes when you wish you could do 60. Sometimes it looks like sitting on the couch and letting the day be small.

If you are someone who has spent your whole life proving you can push through, this part of the work will feel like failure at first. But try looking at it like this instead: it is part of what your nervous system has been asking you for the whole time.

A little reminder ❤️

#chronicpain #nervoussystemawareness #restisimportant #mentalawareness
I am not posting this from the other side of a fla I am not posting this from the other side of a flare. I am posting it from inside one.

For two weeks I have been doing the work I teach… pacing, resting, listening, modifying. None of it has fixed it.

And I have caught myself spiraling into the exact thoughts I would gently redirect a patient out of. “I should know better.” “I am the expert in this.” “What am I doing wrong?”

Here is what this flare has reminded me. Knowing the framework does not exempt you from living inside it. A regulated nervous system is not a permanent state. It is a relationship you keep coming back to. And the moments when nothing is working are not proof you are doing it wrong. They are proof your body is asking for something you have not figured out how to give it yet.

If you are in it too right now, I am right there with you. Tell me what is in your bucket this week. Let’s all share some support with one another.

#nervoussystemhealth #chronicpainawareness #chronicpainsupport #painflare #mindbodyconnection
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