IF YOU’VE EVER had the good fortune to view a cadaver you are suddenly aware that you are bearing witness to a very remarkable piece of construction and engineering. The Shoulder The shoulder girdle provides the widest range of motion of any part of the body. It is...

SEVERAL MONTHS ago I turned on CSPAN: my go-to place in the middle of the night if sleep evades me. This night a panel was assembled before a congressional committee to answer questions about the opioid epidemic and in particular on “protecting the health and safety...

“Muscles… you have hundreds of them, and each has been given a special job to do… for you. Not only that, they were all programmed to go where they were supposed to go, and to know what they were supposed to accomplish long before you were the size of the pin-head the...

  IN THE OLDEN days, it used to be that the classroom exercise vignette was a part of every day. Mornings, which were longer, had two or three of these exercise vignettes. Afternoons, which were usually shorter, had one. The leaders were the kids chosen by the...

  “FIT, WHAT DO WE need to be fit for?” These were the words of W. W. Bauer, MD, as he patted his considerable paunch on national television. The answer, I guess, depends on who you ask. In 1969 Bonnie gave six reasons for being physically fit in an interview for...

  THE BLOOD OF THE WOUND contains the healing. When the barrier is broken, an orchestrated cascade of biochemical events is set into motion to repair the damage.[1][2] This process is divided into predictable phases: blood clotting (hemostasis), inflammation, tissue...

  WE STAND, WALK, run, lift, work, and live in the presence of oxygen. Is there any other way? You are reading this in the presence of oxygen. You are reading this aerobically. Whenever there is a vacuum of any kind (a need unfulfilled) it is eventually filled with...

  THIS SHOULD BE the normal call all year round, not just in warm weather. Since time immemorial, or almost, water has been the preferred balm for hygiene, good health and respite from stress. Perhaps our fascination and love of water is because we ALL spent nine...

 “There is nothing new under the sun… or moon either for that matter. Everything was always here in one form or another. Dr. Travell says Myotherapy was born of serendipity. Dr. Tivy says it came about because known facts were seen from a different angle… without the...

  WHETHER YOU ARE getting away, going to, or being taken away or being brought back as the Diane Warwick lyrics woefully tell… you want to arrive at your destination pain free — and full of that “it” which allows you to enjoy your getaway or make the deal that makes...