

Maintaining Fitness During Cold Weather Months
This is the time of year when the temperature drops, and people take their fitness routines indoors. Typically, this involves heading to the neighborhood gym at least a couple of times a week. But 2020 is anything but typical. With pandemic-related lockdowns, gym...

Resistance/Weight Training Superior For Shrinking Cardiac Fat In The Obese
We often hear it said, without any factual basis, that endurance type exercise is beneficial to heart health but weight/resistance exercise is not. This has been repeated so often that it has become generally accepted as a fact in popular conversation without any...
Hip Strengthening Can Help Knee Osteoarthritis
A recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that patients with knee osteoarthritis who perform hip-strengthening exercises can improve their ability to walk and possibly even reduce their knee pain, as well. This study was derived from...
Weight-Training May Help Reduce Hot Flashes
Postmenopausal women can fight off hot flashes and night sweats by performing a weight-training exercise program. These are the findings of a new randomized clinical trial published in the August 2019 issue of ‘The European Menopause Journal.’ According to lead...
New Study: Surgery Is Not Superior To Non-Surgical Treatment For Rotator Cuff Complaints
Shoulder surgery directed toward “rotator cuff tendinitis,” “rotator cuff disease,” “subacromial pain syndrome,” or “shoulder impingement” is not superior to non-surgical treatment options for relieving pain. These are the findings of an expert panel whose...
The Link Between Body Fat, Inflammation And Pain
In the minds of many, body fat is erroneously regarded as nothing more than a non-functional, inert repository for excessively consumed food calories that lazy or otherwise inactive people fail to “burn off.” However, science has provided irrefutable evidence...
Egg Whites – What We Were Told And What Was Wrong
The term "Biologic Value" is the measure of a protein's properties to be absorbed by the human body and incorporated into existing body proteins for building and repair purposes. The biologic value of the whole egg is rated 93.7. Stated differently, the growth...
Where To Find Effective Treatment For CrossFit Injuries
No current system of exercise generates more debate and contention among healthcare professionals (and exercise enthusiasts) than CrossFit. Some wholeheartedly embrace it while others completely disregard it. Either way, a very real problem arises when CrossFit...
Effective, affordable neck pain relief
Are you getting tired of putting up with a tired, stiff, achy neck? Has it become sufficiently clear that popping Advil/Tylenol, taking your friend's pain pills, or applying that muscle rub you saw on a TV commercial is not making you better? Are you simply...
A New Study Indicates That Cortisone Injections Are Not The ‘Answer’ To Tennis Elbow
An Australian study published in the February 5, 2013 issue of the 'Journal of the American Medical Association' found that patients treated with a single corticosteroid injection for "Tennis Elbow" (also known as 'Lateral Epicondylitis') had a 14% greater...