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Scoliosis: A Curve in Your Back
SCOLIOSIS MEANS a curvature of the spine and is more common than you might think. “It comes from the Greek work skilios, for twisted and means an appreciable lateral deviation in the normally straight, vertical spine. Like headaches there are a lot of words used to...
Why Bother? Too Busy, Too Tired, Too Old, Too Young
Mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a sound body) “A SOUND MIND in a sound body” was the cherished motto of the citizens of Rome, and as long as they lived by it, Rome ruled the world. The decline of the Roman Empire began when its citizens abandoned...
Bare Your Feet
HAPPY FEET ARE strong, flexible and pain-free and they take you where you want to go joyfully. There are 26 bones in the human foot, 33 joints, 107 ligaments, 19 muscles and tendons. The 52 bones in your feet make up about 25 percent of all the bones in your...
Health Care for All, Physical Education for None: Back Pain Facts and Statistics
LOW BACK PAIN costs America about $50 billion in health care costs each year. Add in lost wages and decreased productivity and that figure rises to more than $1000 billion. About 3.1 million Americans experience low back pain at any given time preventing people...
Spectatoritis: The Product of Leisure
-itis: a suffix occurring in words that denote an inflammation or disease affecting a given part of the body (appendicitis; bronchitis; phlebitis); also forming nouns, often nonce words, that denote an obsessive state of mind or tendency facetiously compared to a...
Function Precedes Form
LONG BEFORE YOU SEE the shoulders round, before the scoliosis and forward head are noticed, before the foot turn-out becomes a hip problem, before the abdominal pouch and sway back begin to tell as back pain… your muscles are doing their thing. Muscles become...
A Reason to Exercise: Bigger Brain Volume and Longer Telomeres
BRAIN. THE BRAIN has long perplexed our brains. We are constantly reminded via TV commercials that as we age our brain changes and that if we would just use __________ first discovered in jelly fish that we would be better off. Or that if we did this or that or...
Why Don’t Americans Exercise?
According to a recent on line Harvard Health Publishing article, “…exercise can keep you from developing high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and some kinds of cancer.” And it can even “lower your risk of heart disease as effectively as medications.” And with...
To Sit-Up, Crunch, or Plank, That is the Question
The pendulum swings, things come and go and come again and it is said that there is nothing new under the sun. And so it is with exercise. You can find a myriad of folk, books and ideas on why you should do an exercise or not do it or why you should do it this...
Where Did All the Jump Ropes Go?
When I was growing up in the 40s jump ropes were a part of every little girl’s dress code. We wore them around our waists. But along with trees, fields, vacant lots, ponds and brooks, our playground of nature, along with sleds, skates, bikes and hopscotch, the simple...