For many older adults, pain and injury in the rotator cuff limits their ability to perform daily activities or enjoy the things they love! This article provides an explanation of the rotator cuff along with what can be done to heal one that’s injured or prevent injury from occurring.
Category: Exercise
Walking is great exercise, right? In this article, Dr. Katie discusses walking workouts. In this article you’ll learn about current exercise recommendations and how you can meet them with your walking workout.
Should you be doing high intensity exercise? This article explores a recent study which suggests significant benefits of high intensity exercise programs for seniors.
Back pain is a common condition, however, just because it’s common, doesn’t mean it’s a natural part of aging!
This article demonstrates 6 exercises that will help increase strength and reduce back pain!
A knee replacement is a mjaor surgery, which can require a lengthy recovery time. Proper strengthening before surgery can help reduce recovery time, which means you can get back to what you love to do faster! This article will explain what a knee replacement is, expected recovery time, and exercises to do consistently before surgery. As always, consult your doctor and PT before performing any exercises/activities.
Tai Ji Quan: Moving for Better Balance is a program that has been proven to decrease fall risk! Learn about this program, the components of balance and why we must challenge them, and how you can take a Tai Ji Quan course.
Posture is something we all “know” is important, but how important is it? Preventing a hunchback is not only important for our appearance, but our overall health. Find out how you can prevent a hunchback, and use the exercises within the article to help improve your overall posture and well-being.
Research has found that over the past 9 months (approximately since the global pandemic began), there’s been an increase in sedentary behavior (sitting) and a decrease in physical activity levels.
For older adults especially, it’s so important to increase activity levels to boost brain health, strength, and bone density to help prevent falls, injuries, and even early death.
The good news is that we don’t need to “exercise” to increase our activity level. This article lays out 6 simple ways to decrease sitting time and increase activity level during the day.
Getting too cold to go out for a round? These 7 golf-specific exercises will help you increase the strength and flexibility, so that you’re able to improve your golf game.
Forget where you put your keys? Having trouble remembering names? This could be part of normal aging, however, memory loss is a big concern for most of us. The good news is that there are things we can do every day that improve our memories. Better yet! They may be things you’re already doing!