Month: October 2009

LIFT your mood, boost your self esteem and have fun by signing up to the Island’s Get Moving Challenge. Get Moving, organised by the Isle of Wight NHS, encourages people to take the first step towards improving their physical and mental health.
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Research presented today at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the world’s largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provides a better understanding of the brain, nervous system, and related disorders.Specific research released today shows: * The benefits of exercise on both the brain and body, and, more specifically, underscores …
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As breast cancer awareness month is observed during October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is hoping to shine a spotlight on lymphedema, a chronic, debilitating and often irreversible side effect of cancer treatment.
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October is National Physical Therapy Month, and the American Physical Therapy Association would like you to recognize the positive role physical therapy plays in your health and wellness. Physical therapists are passionate about what we do. No, we don’t
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News-Times/Steve Moseley – Verna Wolfe says exercise and a life spent teaching school have helped keep her young and active at 81. YORK — Is the pool at Fitness Worx a miniature Fountain of Youth? To hear most of the York business’s 80-plus year old members talk one would think so.
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Chennai, Oct 18 : The Chinese psycho-physical exercise, Taichi, is catching up among overworked and stressed out corporate executives in Chennai.
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Exercise can reduce the often debilitating fatigue that cancer patients experience during chemotherapy, new research shows.
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Joe Noga/Sun NewsStudents celebrate a successful class at the Westlake Recreation Center with high-fives after completing an exercise scavenger hunt challenge.Home schooled kids in Westlake and the surrounding West Shore communities are getting a chance to experience physical education…
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) — Supervised exercise programs for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy can reduce fatigue and boost muscle strength, aerobic capacity and emotional well-being, a new study suggests.
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Supervised exercise programmes that include high and low intense cardiovascular and resistance training can help reduce fatigue in patients with cancer who are undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy or treatment for advanced disease. The exercise training also improves patients’ vitality, muscular strength, aerobic capacity and emotional well-being, according to research published on BMJ.com today.
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