My girlfriend is a full time massage therapist for 6 years now, majored in Anatomy & Biology, etc. Her studies and her opinion is that he is correct. Our posture has a LOT to do with our health issues. Not in the sense that it relates to cancer, etc, but the way we hold ourselves throughout the day impacts our bodies in more ways than we realize. I'd trust someone that's dedicated at least 5 years of studying to the human body/working in physiotherapy, etc.

I have injuries from hockey back when I was 12 or 13 that have been left uncared for and are causing issues in my life right now. An example is my old knee injury, that got reinjured in rugby, which now occasionally snaps itself out of place while I am running. A second one is my TMJ which was struck hard by an elbow in hockey when I was 14, and now occasionally locks up when I try to eat and even drink sometimes. The dentists informed me I have an issue in the TMJ but I cannot get it looked at since I don't have the 1000 dollars for consultation/fixing with a specialist (apparently OHIP doesn't cover any of this).


My guess is that Snoop wasn't prepared for the check at all, which he should have been if he was in a race for the puck. Sounds a lot like he got hit with boarding. Illegal or not, you should always be on the look out. You just got caught with your head down and your body unprepared to take a hit. I don't know how many times I had the same thing happen to me when I was learning to play in a league where there was supposed to be no contact. That seems to be where you need to be on the lookout the most. When you aren't expecting to get hit, it happens. PIVOT PIVOT PIVOT.

I'll never forget what my junior coach told me when I was playing as a defenseman (which I now play Centre or Left Wing): You need to always ALWAYS have your head on a pivot. No matter where on the ice you are.

Your girlfriend probably knows about how toxins get stuck in our body. Especially in our joints and muscles. When this happens it causes a lack of blood flow and eventually leads to the deterioration of them. They say whenever you get a massage drink a LOT of water because you have stimulated blood flow in these areas and toxins will now be freed into your blood stream and need to be expelled.

Anyways, I had my head up, the person who hit me wasn't the person I was in a race with. I had my arms forward with my stick on the puck and the hit caught my collarbone perfectly between him and the boards. I was tensed up ready for the hit but it was just a terrible angle and somewhat from behind. I am out for the season by my own diagnosis.

I currently have issues rolling my shoulders back and then downwards (making my collar bone look straight) since right now it is a little bit at an upward V. I am focusing on keeping my posture rock solid though and I am seriously happy that I found this problem in time before it became something worse like the doctors would have allowed.

*deletes OK Computer plus greatest hits compilation and throws away the CDs*

No I didn't. And I was not actually saying anything was wrong with the article. Just thought it was moderately amusing that the words "eat more" were in the beginning of an article cited as why you should as you put it "eat less".

Incidentaly I agree that eating less would take care of a huge range of health problems... At least in the U.S.

hahahaha, no. This is new age bull****. Do you even know what "toxins" are?

But a lot of dietary science ISN'T well proven. IIRC the initial study of the lipid hypothesis in the 40s that got the USDA and congress to push the modern American diet was falsified. Once the government was backing it no one wanted to fund clinical trials for dietary research because "the USDA already knows that." A lot of dietary studies are observational, too, with too many potentially confounding variables.

I don't really know anything about the paleo diet type people or community but there's a LOT of dogma in dietary science. No one wants to consider anything other than "eat according to the food pyramid, don't be lazy and exercise."

i've heard that one good way to work out toxins that get all bound up in your joints (much in the same way that water can't flow thru a kink in a hose) is to go to places with strong vortexes, like arizona? just the ones where magnetic forces push and pull and sorta work out the fabric, it's basically just a molecular massage. it's not complicated science

In terms of the musculoskeletal system, sure. In terms of "toxins," not so much

Massages do release toxins.

Because massages damage muscle cells, and damaged muscle cells are toxic.

When she gets home from work I'll ask her to clarify that one, since I'm fairly certain she's a bit more advanced in the knowledge of those areas than you or I, I mean, unless again you're a practicing MT with years of biology and anatomy study backing you... Then maybe you and I might know as much. Although I am fairly certain she's discussed toxins and free radicals before.



Indeed she does. I get nightly talks about certain things reacting with certain things and other muscles and elements of the body acting in certain ways, etc. I have zero clue what she's talking about 99% of the time.

As for hockey basically you got a bad hit. Those suck. Bad. It sounds like you were in the perfect position that if you were hit something would pop out, even a light tap like you said he gave you. I've had that happen before too.. And it sucks. Did none of them recommend physio or something to that degree?