Healthline Blogs
-
Thank You Grand Rounds 4.10
Thank you Prudence MD for hosting Grand Rounds 4.10 this week.In a hospital Grand Rounds is a lecture on a teaching topic or specific case. On the web, Grand Rounds is a post that selects the best medical posts of the week.Grand Round 4.10 include...
-
Fixing Discs by Fixing Causes
Reader Laraine P writes,"Thanks so much for your help."I wanted to let you know that I have had a herniated disk in my lower back for eight months. Had physical therapy & injections, but still needed medications-pain pills, etc. I never exper...
-
Instantly Better Hip and Quadriceps Stretch
The purpose of the quadriceps stretch is to lengthen the front hip muscles. It is often done in ways that do not stretch the front muscles. The standing quadriceps is done by bending one knee to clasp the foot in your hand behind you (or rest it o...
-
Fast Fitness - Isometric Abs Training
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - learn how to use your abdominal muscles for what they need to do in real life - hold your spine in neutral position, even against resistance:Lie flat, face up. Legs out straight, as if standing up. Hold a weight a few...
-
Your Fitness Fixer Requests in the Works
Thank you for the many e-mails. I am sorting through the piles. Readers are sending success stories, long and short, of improving their lives and fixing injuries and the moves that produced them. They changed their mindset so that exercise is not ...
-
Do You Lose Most Of Your Heat Through Your Head?
Losing most of your heat through your head is a popular myth. Head heat loss is not the majority of body heat lost. Not even close.Years of my career in research have been to study how the human body performs in extremes - exercise, injury states ...
-
Thank You Grand Rounds 3.51
Thank you to The Efficient MD for hosting an efficient Grand Rounds 3.51 this week, and including my post Innovation in Abdominal Muscles.Exercising the abdominal muscles is not the key in stopping lower back pain. Using them when standing to deli...
-
Which Ancient Exercise Gives Focus and Concentration?
People often meditate by staring at a candle but tense their shoulders preparing dinner and driving, hold their breath to lift things, and are easily distressed when someone cuts in front of them.My husband Paul and I studied martial arts in sever...
-
Thank You Grand Rounds 3.46
Thank you to Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei for hosting Grand Rounds 3.46 on her blog Eye on DNA and for including my post Overlooked Ab Muscles in Overhead Lifts.Dr. Lei said the post "uses some very illustrative pictures."In a hospital, Grand Rounds is a l...
-
Using a Handstand for More Than an Exercise - Real Life
A reader wrote about the handstand against wall in the post Fast Fitness - Easy Handstand for Balance, Upper Body Strength -The Movie. GingerB said,"My Yoga teachers uses that, but you hold you legs at a right degree angle to the floor. It forces ...
