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Laura Welch
- Aug 4
- 3 min
Fabulous Fascia
Recently, I spent a weekend at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Columbia, MD learning Fascial Manipulation Level 1 from Dr. Antonio Stecco...
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Laura Welch
- Jun 20
- 3 min
Consistency Breeds Progress
Progress can be a sneaky thing. You can keeping chipping and chipping and chipping away at something, feeling like you're about to bang...
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Laura Welch
- Jun 6
- 5 min
The Spine: Avoiding the Hinge
The spine is a pretty cool design. There are 7 vertebrae in the cervical spine, 12 in the thoracic spine (matching the ribs), 5...
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Laura Welch
- May 24
- 3 min
The Body's Yin and Yang
This symbol, this philosophy, has always been a grounding point for me. I'm sure I wasn't the only middle school kid that owned some...
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Laura Welch
- May 15
- 3 min
My Human Experience and Creating Less Choices
A year of postpartum has flown by and I don't understand how time has moved so slowly and so quickly all at once. I wanted to share with...
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Laura Welch
- May 4
- 4 min
The Whole Person Equation
A few weeks ago, my son and I stood near the finish line of the Monument 10K. Running events always do it for me; they touch me in a...
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Laura Welch
- Apr 13
- 3 min
Food and G.I. Upset
Does your belly hurt often? Do you have constipation or diarrhea? Do you have excess gas? Reflux? Bloating? Let's talk about it. Our...
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Laura Welch
- Mar 28
- 4 min
Test and Retest
We have had some "ah-ha" moments in the clinic lately when playing the game of test and retest so I wanted to share! When doing...
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Laura Welch
- Mar 21
- 1 min
Why is my neck tight all the time?!
Recently, I took a refresher virtual course on mobilizing the vagus nerves through the Institute of Physical Art (IPA). I last covered...
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Laura Welch
- Feb 26
- 3 min
Akkermansia: a fascinating bacteria in our gut
So, I may have gone down a little bit of a rabbit hole... It started like this: Many months ago, a colleague recommended a probiotic...
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Laura Welch
- Feb 14
- 3 min
The Deal with Vitamin D3
We have all heard of vitamin D3 and that it's important, right? If you're lucky, this is something your primary care provider checks...
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Laura Welch
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Channeling Your Curious Cat
I'm in Baltimore through the weekend for a Barral visceral course about the pelvis. I left Richmond yesterday at 5pm, a time that I...
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Laura Welch
- Feb 2
- 2 min
The Core and Our Adrenals
I am still following NPR's Body Electric, a series of short podcasts about how chronic use of technology is changing our bodies. I...
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Laura Welch
- Feb 2
- 3 min
Tracking HRV: Spying on the autonomic nervous system.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)Â is the window into our autonomic nervous system. This means, we can look at the HRV value and get an idea...
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Laura Welch
- Jan 10
- 3 min
Breathing.
Thanks to James Nestor's book called Breath, more people are aware that the way we breathe is actually important. In short, breathing...
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Laura Welch
- Dec 30, 2023
- 3 min
Sugar and Spice and Everything Not-So-Nice
I'm just going to start by stating the obvious: sugar is terrible for our bodies and a habit that's hard to kick. Yeah, yeah, so what? ...
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Laura Welch
- Nov 19, 2023
- 4 min
The Buzzkill for Our Body? Alcohol
When I was in my residency program at Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo, California, every week I sat in rounds where all the disciplines...
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Laura Welch
- Nov 3, 2023
- 5 min
Protein: Ah, Amino Acids, Let Me Count the Ways
I've had a fascination with amino acids lately. In my undergraduate studies, we learned that amino acids are the "building blocks of...
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Laura Welch
- Oct 22, 2023
- 5 min
Understanding Knee Pain: A Monkey in the Middle
The knee joint is such a cool structure. I especially admire it for it's intricate design. Let's start with some anatomy. If this...
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- Aug 7
- 5 min
Rotator Cuff Tear Research Review!
Degenerative rotator cuff tears are more common as we age and we may or may not have symptoms. Because of this, a common argument is, is...
- Aug 4
- 3 min
Fabulous Fascia
Recently, I spent a weekend at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Columbia, MD learning Fascial Manipulation Level 1 from Dr. Antonio Stecco...
- Jun 20
- 3 min
Consistency Breeds Progress
Progress can be a sneaky thing. You can keeping chipping and chipping and chipping away at something, feeling like you're about to bang...
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