Healthline Blogs
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Calories Burned in Prayer
Last week at the sports medicine conference, I talked to a researcher from Kuwait University. Dr. Jasem Ramadan presented a lovely little study called Bioenergetics of Islamic Prayers, measuring the amount of oxygen and calories the physical movem...
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Can We Teach Young Doctors to Be Healthy?
We have been traveling for the past 2 months in Asia and are on the way to the chilly Smokey Mountains of Tennessee USA to teach medical students for a week during their rotation elective in Wilderness Medicine. This is the third year I will teach...
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Vertebral Artery Compression, Dizziness, Discs, and the Forward Head
I received an e-mail from Serbia. Miroslav had suffered eight years of dizziness from compression of the vasculature and nerves of his neck. Then he found how to prevent the bad position called "forward head" using my methods. Miroslav had previo...
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Fast Fitness - Grip Strength and Endurance
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Strengthen and increase endurance of hands, fingers, and forearms.Farmers Carry - Hold a heavy briefcase, suitcase, bucket, grocery bags, or other weights with a handle. Hold arms down at your side (or out to the side...
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Healthy Toe Stretches
Don't forget to stretch your toes. You need mobile toes for balance, healthy walking mechanics, and foot health.Every day, take your feet in your hands and stretch your toes apart side to side, easily and comfortably. Make sure all your toes can m...
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What Does It Look Like to Not Use Abdominal Muscles?
Readers have been e-mailing asking for more photos of what "the plank" and other exercises, or even daily life looks like if done in a way that doesn’t use the abdominal muscles as intended.In the top photo at left, you can see the badly arched lo...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 3.47
Thank you to medical writer and chess fan Christian Bachmann for hosting Grand Rounds 3.47 this week at Med Journal Watch and including my post Gaze Perseid Meteors Without Neck Pain.Grand Rounds is a lot of work to do and has been called "the wee...
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Prevent Back Surgery
I received an invitation to take a course to learn a new back surgery for damage to the facets. Facets are the joints at the back of each vertebrae (spine bone). The surgery was advertised as a good revenue producer.In the surgery, the facet joint...
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How Often Should You Be Healthy?
A reader thoughtfully sent in the photos at left to help readers recognize unhealthy bending, and asked, "What is your advice when someone is having to bend to put dishes in the dishwasher? It just seems so uncommon to think to squat while loading...
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News from the ACSM Conference
I am attending the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). There are many hundreds of studies, seminars, clinics, workshops, lectures of all sorts, running concurrently. It is like drinking candy from a fire hose.Dashing ...
