Kathleen McDonough

In part 1, Your Fantastic Feet, I talked about the wonderful piece of engineering our feet are and how we need to use them as nature intended. As the discussion continues, what I am really addressing is locomotion. In other words, how we walk and run. So, in this second…

As a physical therapist, I see many people suffering from problems with their feet. A survey from the American Podiatric Medical Association found that 77% of Americans have experienced foot pain. All of the running, walking, and sports we do can be pretty brutal on our feet, yet our feet…

Shelter-in-place update 12/14/2020 - We are open! With COVID cases increasing locally as well as worldwide, I want to keep you informed about the status of my practice and our precautions against the pandemic. Although many businesses are closed, routine medical appointments and medically necessary treatments ARE ALLOWED. I am…

Remote learning health tips to prevent poor posture and health problems in children. Our current situation with COVID 19 and children doing remote learning is raising concerns for some parents about their children's health. Some children are studying hunched over their laptops because they do not have a proper setup…

Since moving to my new office, I have not been able to teach my weekly Pilates Fundamentals Mat class.  Many of you have told me how much you miss it and that you wish it was available in another format, so here you go! Well, one unintended but wonderful consequence…

It almost sounds laughable as I type it.  A pandemic the world has not seen before is changing every part of our daily lives. But do we still expect ourselves to keep our healthy habits unwavering and strong? I am a physical therapist and Pilates teacher, with over 35 years…

For many of us, working from home has lots of interruptions:  kids, dogs, cats on our laptops.  But even with some of those breaks from working at our computers, we still are putting in way too many hours at a screen.  Taking even a few minutes away from those screens…

In part 1, we talked about sitting and specifically, sitting upright for work at a computer. Today we will explore reclining for work and standing desks. We are all under the force of gravity, even when lying down. Way back in the 80s, Nachemson wrote about intervertebral disc pressures in…

Don’t Wreck Your Body Doing So! Shifting from Your Professional Office to Home The sudden shift from working in a professional office to making do with a home office is taking a toll on our bodies.  What felt like a temporary change some months ago now feels just endlessly achy…