Month: August 2008

Whitney WithOut Walls began its exercise, information classes and activities in 2006 to improve and maintain the physical and mental health of seniors. Recently it hit the 10,000-participant mark.

Home workout Want to try physical therapy at home for a bum knee before shelling out hundreds in co-pays? Pick up a copy of BodyWorksMD ($40), a new DVD series created by Mark Klion and James Cappozzi, orthopedic surgeons at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The first release from the series, The Knee , details easy exercise routines that help prevent injury, as well as specific …

Working up a sweat could be the most important lifestyle change people with high blood pressure can make. Still, few physicians take time to discuss physical activity with their patients, says a new study published in the summer issue of the journal Ethnicity & Disease.