Stay Strong, Stay Steady: Preventing Falls for Active Midlife Women
The Facts You Need to Know
- Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury death for adults 65 and older in the U.S.
- In 2018, 27.5% of older adults reported falling at least once, equating to 714 falls per 1,000 older adult...
How to Create Health and Fitness Goals That Stick
Achieving health and fitness goals can feel overwhelming, but with the right mindset, tools, and community support, you can build a routine that not only helps you feel better but also lasts a lifetime. Let’s break it down into three simple steps: i...
When it comes to nutrition, most people focus on what they’re eating—calories, macronutrients, superfoods—while completely overlooking the equally crucial factors of when and how they eat. Surprisingly, research shows that even without changing what you eat, simply shifting your eating habits can ha...
Ever felt that sudden flutter or racing heartbeat and wondered, “What’s going on with my heart right now?”Â
You’re probably experiencing heart palpitations.Â
These unexpected sensations can be unsettling, leaving you searching for answers. This topic is particularly important for women in their 30...
Today I'd like to propose breaking away from some wording habits which may not be serving us anymore, myself included of course.
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The words we choose to move through life with inform our brain about what's to come and how to react.
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This means that what you say can either make your inevitable...
Understanding Muscles, Cartilage, Ligaments, Tendons, Bones, and Nerves and Exploring Healing Times for Each
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Injuries happen.
Some of them like to stick around for much longer than we'd like and we're left scratching our heads trying to remember how long our last injury took to go away and how ...
Your body is a web of connective tissues, which are all connected.Â
When you feel pain in one area, it may actually be due to an injury in a different spot.Â
You’ve got muscular and neural pathways that connect your feet to your head and also link your ankles to your knees and your back.
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We tend to overemphasize healing the site of injury when we're injured - whether that’s a broken finger, a sprained ankle or a herniated disc.Â
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We wrap the thing, we put ointment on the thing, we may ice (or heat) the thing, and then we tend to (over)focus on “the best exercises” to heal the th...
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Did you know that a whopping 18%-35% of Americans are dealing with chronic pain?
That percentage varies, depending on which study you reference.
The worldwide average is around 20%.
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I am the first one to acknowledge how fortunate we are to have western medicine, doctors and drugs to help u...
 If you’ve been dealing with pain for awhile, you’ve probably reached for some type of over-the-counter (otc) pain relievers at some point, right?
Even though you may have a couple of different kinds of drugstore analgesics in our medicine cabinets, your might not be quite sure why you’re taking wh...
March 15, 2013
Did you know that in 2007 The American Chiropractic Association reported that purse-related injuries surged 30%?  The average woman’s handbag weighs 5.2 pounds these days and the UK’s Daily Mail reports that the average “Man Bag” weighs almost 13 pounds!  That’s like hauling around...
You can listen to the Retrain Back Pain Podcast recording of this topic here
After reading the subject line of this article, you might be wondering, "What does accounting have to do with back pain and moving the way I love to move?!"
It's is not all about exercise do's and don'ts
Doing some groun...
