Tips to Stay Injury Free When Flying
For those of you who are lucky enough to be jumping on a plane to head somewhere this holiday season, we wanted to outline a few tips and tricks to make your trip as pain free as possible. Travelling is great, but it’s also easy to hurt yourself. Sitting on planes for long periods of times, lifting heavy bags, sleeping in weird beds, using a different pillows,
Over 60? You need to exercise MORE, not less!
Research published in the European Heart Journal has found that "people should up their exercise levels once they hit 60 to help cut their risk of heart attack and stroke" The study followed nearly 120,00 people, and found that people who reduced their exercise levels "were up to 27 per cent more likely to develop heart and blood vessel problems." In contrast, people who had been previously inactive,
Should kids take “Study Breaks”?
Children should take regular breaks because the longer people sit in a certain position the more they slump. Slumping is a key contributor to back pain and headaches, but it also causes neck tension that can affect blood flow and oxygen to the brain. One researcher summarised the results of 558 previous studies on this topic between 1966 and 2005 and concluded that the most consistent finding
What’s the BEST way to pack a backpack?
Studies have been done on teenage students comparing the effect of wearing backpacks on one or both shoulder. The studies, which involved taking measurements of spinal angles and curvatures, found that wearing a backpack on just one shoulder increases upper back pain, lower back pain, spinal curvatures, and stress on the shoulders and neck. What children do during the adolescent years can have a pronounced effect on
Exercise For Osteoporosis: Which type is best?
A few years ago, researchers set out to answer this question. Is one type of exercise better than another for improving bone mineral density? This study looked at how weight bearing exercise (that is, exercise where you bear your own weight, like running, as opposed to swimming, where your weight is supported by the water) compares with resistance exercise (that is, weights). Now we all know that weight
