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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I have on

the podcast again, Aaron Alexander from Align. And one of the things I really appreciate about Aaron

is how he integrates simple practices

into your daily living that can help with mobility, pain, and function.

One pearl of which I was kind of re-reminded of the importance of, and it actually spurred

me to wall on the podcast to

quickly go into Amazon and buy a pull-up bar was this one observation or sent to observation

this one clinician Aaron cites a shoulder surgeon who found a near reduction of the need for any of his patients to get surgery

by simply having them hang from a pull-up bar on most days.

And so that is something that I kind of forgot about, but when thinking about how important

breathing is and how hanging may help

kind of decompress the rib cage and also how it helps move the shoulder through this range

of motion that's supposed to go through and thinking about our evolutionary history and that we

evolve from brachiating hominids, it makes a lot of sense. So that's one simple,

cheap thing that may really help prolong the life and longevity of your shoulder girdle.

So we got into that, obviously, a number of things for hip mobility. And we got kind of deep with

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