Tag Archives for exercise
What You Don’t Know About Your Sprained Ankle Can Hurt You!
The ankle is one of the most vulnerable parts of our body and is highly prone to mishaps. Were you aware that approximately 28,000 ankle injuries occur in the United States every day, many resulting from sports such as field…
Tags: exercise, Health Care Professional, Sprain
Your “Off Day” May be the Day to Get to the ER
What can you do to detect a heart attack early on and prevent fatal results? Too Many symptoms of a heart attack go unrecognized or are often overlooked by the patient as an ‘off’ day. Innocuous looking symptoms include, indigestion,…
Tags: exercise, health care, heart disease, Heat Attack, Hospitals, research, seniors
Make Sure The Family’s Involved
Post-stroke recovery and function can be significantly affected by the involvement of patient’s nearest and dearest. New research shows that incorporating family-assisted exercise therapy to the standard physical therapy regimen of a stroke patient had many positive results. Motor function,…
Tags: balance, Emma Stokes, exercise, Family, Ireland, motor function, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Post-stroke recovery, research, Trinity College Dublin
Use it or Lose it!
What an absolutely clever approach to marketing, exercise…. Innovative and psychologically astute… and probably just what most wannabe losers need! Idea: A Gym Membership that Charges You for Not Exercising
Tags: exercise, Gym, Gym-Pact, Marketing, Membership
Laughter = Exercise
Bet you didn’t know that! Laughing works up an appetite just like a workout does. Seems there are two hormones that regulate appetite: leptin and ghrelin. Increased ghrelin means increased appetite, and decreased leptin also results in greater appetite. After…
Tags: appetite, blood pressure, exercise, ghrelin, heart disease, immune system, laughter, leptin, Loma Linda University, stress reduction
Care and Feeding of the Middle Aged Brain
As we work with administrators to help navigate the world of Long Term Care it is hard not to be hyper-aware of our own mortality and the eventuality that we, too, are likely to reach a point where we will…
Tags: Aging, exercise, Health Care, middle age, research
What’s a Bona Fide Boomer Got to do to… Survive?
According to Jarett Berry, a cardiologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, one must be vigilant about keeping physically active. Yes, in what they used to call “Middle Age.” Wasn’t that the time we thought would be…
Tags: aerobics, American Heart Association, Annual Epidemiology and Prevention Conference, blood pressure, blood sugar, Boomer, cholesterol, Cooper Institute, Dallas, disease, exercise, illness, Jarett Berry, life span, lifestyle, middle age, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Stress-Busting Tactics
Stress is a part and parcel of our frenetic lives, but chronic stress is not what the doctor ordered. Too much stress hikes up your blood pressure, causes body inflammation and can result in heart problems. So what do we…
Tags: blog, blood pressure, body inflammation, diary, EAP, Employee-Assistance Programs, exercise, heart, journal, massages, stress, stress-relief, Workplace
re MODEL your Brain!
All those early wake-up calls to make those before dawn exercise classes were doing more for me than I thought- according to researchers at Princeton University who were following a comprehensive experiment with running rats… They discovered that the neurons…
Tags: anxiety, Benjamin Greenwood, brain, Dartmouth, Department of Integrative Physiology, dopamine, exercise, Michael Hopkins, mood, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Laboratory, Princeton University, rats, research, stress, University of Colorado, University of Houston
Some Natural Ways to Fight Depression
Aside from therapy and medication – crucial elements in one’s battle against serious doldrums, there are some natural lifestyle changes that can be quite effective. “Having a routine gives you a sense of control over the day,” says Ian A….
Tags: depression, Depression Research Program, eating, exercise, Ian A. Cook, medication, routine, Sleep, support network, therapy, UCLA
