“Research has linked social isolation and loneliness to higher risks for a variety of physical and mental conditions: high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and even death.”

There’s more stability than a traditional bridge, so you can create greater force while maintining very low spinal torque.

According to a recent meta-analysis we know 2 things:

• Most exercise based interventions work

• Except stretching

A new systematic review found that high muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness reduced cancer mortality by as much as 46%.

One of the major problems in modern healthcare is language.

Patients don’t understand that most diagnoses are purely hypothetical. It’s a guess. It’s giving a name to what the doctor may think is the cause or the symptoms.

I saw this pain scale a few years ago.

At first it made me laugh.

Then as I looked at it, I realized it might be the best clinical pain scale out there.

“Therefore, arguably the most important interventions involve improving metabolic health, education around tendon loading, lifestyle measures and identifying reversible risk factors”

the concentration required for reading has a physiological effect on the brain, engages the imagination and stimulates creativity, all contributing to a shutdown of the emergency fight or flight response

dry-needling treatment has been shown to have a positive influence on self-perspective of functional status (physical functioning, physical problems, emotional problems, social functioning, pain), and wellbeing (mental health and vitality) in athletes with MPS (Myofascial Pain Syndrome)