Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
( American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine ) People with pain in the elbow or forearm from playing sports or just from common everyday activities, might be able to use a simple bar and strengthening exercise to alleviate pain, say researchers who are presenting their study results at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting in Keystone, Colo., July 9-12.
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Different types of work site exercise programs have multiple benefits, including reduced neck and shoulder pain for employees who do all-around exercise and lowered heart disease and stroke risk factors for those who do strength training, reports a study in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental …
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Betty Robinson is proof that no one is too old to exercise. Since 2002, the 82-year-old Palm Desert woman has been the force behind the Riverside County Office on Aging’s Fit After 50 program. She not only teaches four classes a week, but Robinson, a certified trainer, also has instructed about 100 people how to teach the program throughout the county.
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Konami Digital Entertainment announced today that it is developing Walk It Out, a rhythm-based physical fitness title for the Nintendo Wii. In Walk It Out, players stroll through a virtual world that evolves in sync with an on-screen avatar’s footsteps. Skyscrapers, windmills, and lighthouses will spring up as players successfully step to the beat of a background music track. Walk It Out uses …
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I received an interesting question from a musician who wanted to know if playing a musical instrument was exercise. She said playing some wind instruments “takes a great amount of stamina” and that playing the bagpipes feels like a workout. So is she really getting a workout?
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A new UQ Sport program which aims to help elderly people exercise in their own homes has been launched by Queensland’s Minister for Disability Services and Multicultural Affairs, the Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP.
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Dozens of the nation’s leading organizations in health care, science, medicine and public health are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week with one goal in mind: to develop a national physical activity plan that will make America healthier.
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Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says. Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Duke University studied a sample of 681 parents of 433 fourth- and fifth-graders from 12 schools in Houston.
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Title: Kids of Parents Who Value Exercise Are More Active Category: Health News Created: 7/7/2009 7:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 7/7/2009
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Counseling patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on how to increase physical activity leads to health benefits that are independent of changes in weight.
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