Aligned Movement

06/01/2026

Just signed up to attended the Lifestyle Medicine Conference in November - Yay!
We can have profound impact on our health and quality of life through these pillars of lifestyle medicine including:
1. Optimal Nutrition
2. Physical Activity
3. Stress Management
4. Connectedness
5. Restorative Sleep
6. Risky Substance Avoidance

Maybe start small by adding certain foods daily to you diet, adding a daily walk, or prioritizing sleep?

You have tremendous power over your health destiny. The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented with simple changes in what you eat and how you live.

🥦 My goal is to give you the information to empower and inspire you to make healthy changes in your life, but, in the end, it’s all up to you.

➡️ It’s your body, your choice.

Know, however, that there is only one way of eating that’s ever been proven to reverse the progression of heart disease in the majority of patients—a diet centered around whole plant foods.

📚 The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of How Not to Die is out today. Learn more at https://see.nf/3RtYuWK.

See the following resources on NutritionFacts.org to learn more. "Can Alzheimer’s Disease Be Reversed with a Plant-Based Diet?" at https://see.nf/3yLTRS6 and "Eating to Reverse Heart Failure" at https://see.nf/4i15XsU

05/30/2026

So true!!!!!

I have been repairing rotator cuffs for 30 years. And the most important thing I do in my office most days is talk people out of surgery they do not need.

Rotator cuff issues are omnipresent with age. Over 90% of people aged 40 or older have rotator cuff abnormalities on MRI. By your seventies, at least 30% have a full-thickness defect. Most of these people have no idea because the defect is not causing symptoms, and the shoulder still functions. So if you walk into an orthopedic office with shoulder pain and the MRI shows a "tear," that finding alone does not mean something happened or that something needs to be fixed.

Most cuff defects are not tears in the way you think. They are the result of decades of tendon attrition in a stress-shielded zone that gradually thins and develops a defect. It has more in common with the gray hair on your head than with a torn ligament from a sports injury. And the reason most of these defects do not compromise function is because of a structure called the rotator cable… a thick band of fibers that carries most of the mechanical load across the cuff like a suspension bridge.

The supraspinatus, the tendon most commonly reported as "torn," lies within the cable in a region that experiences very little force. If the cable and load path are intact, the shoulder continues to work just fine.

The evidence reflects this. The MOON Shoulder Group found that structured physical therapy was effective in approximately 75% of patients with atraumatic full-thickness rotator cuff tears at two years. Randomized trials show no clinically meaningful difference between surgery and PT at one year for degenerative tears. The default treatment for most atraumatic tears is non-surgical.

That is what the data says, and that is what I tell most patients in my office. I wrote a deep dive on this… how the cuff actually works, why the cable matters, when surgery is the right answer, and what to do if you have been told you have a tear and are not sure what comes next.

Read full article here:https://howardluksmd.substack.com/p/why-most-rotator-cuff-tears-dont

05/24/2026

Come directly to Aligned Movement !

05/24/2026

Seeing a physical therapist first, without a physician's referral, is allowed in the United States, and it is called direct access. Not only is it safe and effective, direct access can help you recover faster, among other benefits.

05/17/2026

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

04/10/2026

I love the heat of hot yoga - it got me wondering about sauna use. Please share!

I love the heat - Is it good for me?

04/01/2026

I have had many conversations with people about creatine recently.

Supplementation has helped me in many ways. If you want to learn how take a look at Aligned Movement's most recent Substack post.

Please subscribe if you would like to see future post to help support your whole body health.

And then 6 months later I increased my dose...

03/23/2026

Following just four simple lifestyle factors can have a strong impact on the prevention of chronic diseases: not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, getting 30 minutes of daily exercise, and eating more healthfully—consuming more fruits, veggies, and whole grains, and less meat.

For some cancers, like colon cancer, the top cancer killer of nonsmokers, up to 71 percent of cases appear to be preventable through a similar portfolio of simple diet and lifestyle changes. What happens when we put cancer on a plant-based diet?

Watch the video “How Not to Die from Cancer” at https://bit.ly/3hSsYB5 to find out, and learn more about cancer prevention at https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/cancer/.

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02/07/2026

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02/07/2026

Very True! .... lifestyle is the only treatment method which has shown reversal of heart disease! ♥️