Dr.  Andrea Pack

Dr. Andrea Pack

Health & Wellness

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Full Compass Massage

Full Compass Massage

1610 LaVista Rd. NE
Apartment 1
Atlanta, GA 30329

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Gardening is a moderate intensity physical activity for older adults. Unfortunately, the body positions one is in while gardening, such as kneeling, lifting, squatting, and bending, can lead to various bodily pains. A couple months ago, a client (we will call her Sally) came to me because she was having intense knee and back pain while tending to her garden. The pain was so bad, she no longer enjoyed the one activity that brought her peace every day after work. As a 60-year-old who practices yoga three times a week, she felt confused and frustrated that her body was failing her. In our first session, I assessed Sally’s alignment, observing how each external body part moved within the joint and in relation to the entire body. Additionally, we created an action plan to help her achieve her movement goals, which included creating exercises and stretches that would support the kinematics needed to garden without pain. It was important to make the action plan easily digestible because Sally needed to be motivated to be consistent with her exercises and stretches outside of our sessions together. I regularly checked in with her during the week and created videos to document the exercises and stretches she needed to do weekly. For the first month, we were meeting twice a week for an hour each time. Since then, we have decreased the number of times we meet a month to every other week. She reported that she was able to garden with minimal pain at the beginning of our third month together. She saw the benefit of the work we were doing, so we are still meeting to create balanced muscles and stability in her body. Sally is now able to enjoy her meditative practice of gardening without pain. She even started picking up other hobbies, such as ceramics!

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