Healthline Blogs
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Dinosaur of Grand Rounds 3.23
"#1 Dinosaur" is the name of the family doctor who hosted Grand Rounds 3.23 this week, illustrating a theme of how things have changed, and not changed, in medicine.Thank you #1 Dinosaur for including my post When Did Health Become Thinking Out O...
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Do Military Chants Help Running? - The Jody Calls
When I was in the military, we ran. A lot. Every day. I love to run fast. When we ran, we sang. What did we sing? What they told us to sing - How much we loved to run. How much we loved everything about the military. Why? It kept us from saying wh...
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Back Pain From Running
One of my areas of injury research for both Army and Navy aeromedical systems was preventing back pain from running. Disease Non-Battle Injuries (DNBI) from exercising in the gym and doing PT is a huge military issue - grounding far more personnel...
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Fast Fitness - More Plank Chess and Success Photos
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - strong mind in a strong body - readers Paul J and son sent in their success playing their invention - plank chess:Paul J writes:"This time we played a complete game."We had to hold the plank during our turn."Once aga...
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Thank You Dr. Donnell for GrandRounds
Thank you Dr. Donnell for the big work of hosting Grand Rounds vol. 10 no. 3 this week.Dr. Donnell's Notes from Dr. RW included my post Carrying Schoolbooks Is Not the Cause of Back Pain, calling it, "ergonomically smart book carrying."Grand Round...
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Fast Fitness - Core Hip & Body, Posture Strength & Balance
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - training and challenging abdominal muscles to hold neutral spine.Use this, not as an exercise to "do," but to use to retrain neutral spine. Reader Mike, who did a A Whole Big Fix sent this photo to illustrate:Hold a p...
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Fun Steve Loses Weight With Fitness Fixer
Reader Steve writes me funny updates. Steve fixed his back pain that surgeons said was hopeless, using my methods. Then his knees, arches, neck, and various dings and injuries he gets during his active life as an adventurer and professional photog...
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Fixing the Commonest Source of Mystery Lower Back Pain
Many people let their lower back curve inward (arch) too much when they stand, walk, exercise, and carry things (drawing on left). This is commonly called sway back, hollowback, arching, lordosis, or hyperlordosis. People who overarch this way get...
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Nice Neck Stretch
Here is a quick stretch, helpful after long sitting or working. Done right, it stretches the neck, upper body, and side of the body, helping restore muscle length to tight muscles:Put one hand behind you, as if in an opposite back pocket (photo at...
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Better Balance by Christmas
I heard a radio program about yoga for senior citizens. The yoga program directors made the usual statements about yoga helping strength and balance. Then they said something that seemed at odds with their goal. They said, "If your balance is poor...
