Your Posture, Your Health
Good posture is about more than just looking good. It's important for keeping your spine, mind and body healthy. It can affect how you feel emotionally, how you feel physically and how your body performs. Bad posture commonly leads to back aches and pains, letting you know there’s a problem. Fortunately, chiropractors can help correct this.
If your posture is not good, it could mean your muscles are weak. As a result, increased stress is placed on your tendons and ligaments as you maintain yourself in a weakened, hunched position. Chiropractors can help identify weak postural muscles and make these muscles stronger, improving your posture. They use methods like adjusting your spine, stretching and strengthening your muscles, and giving you tips for how to maintain proper posture.
Bad posture habits are perhaps the common reason for posture problems. Over time, poor postural habits increase the stress and strain on your upper body and shoulders, causing you to slump and slouch forward. Slouching is bad as it stretches tendons, ligaments and joint structures, putting undue stress on your spine and other surrounding structures. Slouching can even cause breathing problems and overall low energy. The good news is, chiropractors can quickly diagnose bad postural habits, provide education and tips to practice proper posture as well as treat the physical problems including pain and weakness to get you back to your functioning, happy self.
If you believe you are suffering from postural problems and challenges, contact your local chiropractor today. Relief from postural problems is generally quick and just a call away!
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Are Trampoline Parks Safe for Kids?
When a new trampoline park opens up, emergency rooms and pediatric centers nearby are sure to notice an increase in related injuries. The safety concerns of trampolines are no secret, accounting for over 100,000 injuries each year.1 These injuries can range from mild to severe, from sprains and bruises to life-threatening spine and neck injuries. There's even a recoil injury doctors are all-too-familiar with: it’s called a "trampoline fracture," which is a tibial fracture commonly caused by having more than one jumper on a trampoline at once.2 Bur recent research illustrates that trampoline parks create even more risk than their standalone counterparts. First, they are built to accommodate many jumpers, and although parks' rules dictate only one jumper per "section," these rules are often broken. The hard supports between sectioned components of the trampolines themselves pose a serious risk as well, and they are common culprits for high-impact injuries after a fall. At trampoline parks, jumpers are more likely to collide with others, more likely to sustain dislocations, and more likely to require hospital admission than jumpers on home trampolines.3 If a child is going to jump on a trampoline, practicing good safety skills like supervised, netted jumping with only one jumper at a time, as well as appropriately managing any injuries in the event of an accident, is the best way to keep safe them during these activities. And over half of injuries sustained from trampoline activities are soft tissue injuries,4 highlighting the importance of proper injury treatment and care. For non-life threatening spinal and soft tissue injuries, treatment by a doctor of chiropractic is an excellent, effective, and safe way to heal an injury, strengthen the body, and protect from re-injury.
References:
1. http://www.livestrong.com/arti...
2. http://radiopaedia.org/article...
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
4. http://injuryprevention.bmj.co...
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New Study Finds Obese Seniors Can Improve Disability with Diet and Exercise
According to a new U.S. study, seniors age 65-79 may be able to improve their disability and lessen fatigue if they start exercising more. Plus, if they cut calories, they may achieve overall improved health. Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina conducted the study. The experiment involved 180 obese senior adults from the age of 65 to 79 years-old. Each participant was randomly given a 20-week task: Regular aerobic activity, or regular aerobic activity combined with cutting calories. All 180 seniors focused on treadmill exercises at least 4 days per week. However, the group assigned to cut calories also were instructed to eat at least 250-600 fewer calories per day, as well. According to the study, the group who exercised and cut calories was able to increase their exercise capacity (the body’s ability to supply oxygen to muscles during longer exercise sessions) by 14-16%. Meanwhile, the seniors who only focused on aerobic exercise increased their exercise capacity by nearly 8%. The researchers concluded, in general, people who cut a moderate amount of calories from their diets and complete regular aerobic workouts will see good results. You don’t have to slash calories drastically, because this is difficult to keep up. Best of all, anyone at any stage of life, even people who are both obese and elderly, will see health benefits from getting active and eating less.
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Source: The Journals of Gerontology Series B, online July 5, 2018.
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