Kathleen McDonough

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…