Month: February 2009

Commonwealth Physical Therapy is a growing network of over 20 clinics in Kentucky.
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When Phil Black was a basketball player at Yale in the early 1990s, he and his fellow athlete roommates used to take study breaks by playing cards or doing jock-ish fitness challenges, such as push-up contests, to “blow off some steam.”
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MORRISTOWN — “Snatching” or “dead-lifting” a barbell with hundreds of pounds aren’t prerequisites to becoming a police officer. Nonetheless, those weightlifting skills proved valuable when two police officers flexed their muscles in two recent competitions.
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A man who pleaded guilty to performing physical therapy on injured workers without a license will spend more than three years in prison. Michael Stinson was the owner of Reconditioning & Exercise Physiology Specialists in Loveland.
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An ambitious new study has added considerable weight to the claim that exercise can lower the risk of colon cancer.
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Exercise appears to improve quality of life in postmenopausal women regardless of whether they lose weight, according to a new report.
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State and local policies, if accompanied by adequate funding, can help build healthy schools and communities that offer sidewalks, open space and ample opportunity for physical activity, according to research published recently in a special issue of the Journal of Public Health Policy.
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Nova Scotia students hold centre court in a new physical education textbook being distributed to high schools across the province. Active Healthy Living: Physical Education in Nova Scotia is the province’s first resource developed to directly support physical education, which was made mandatory in high schools this year. The 250-page hardcover book for Grade 10 students addresses a range of …
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