Month: October 2024
Free to Do What Matters Most: Age, Weight and Your Joints
Maintaining a healthy weight can help keep your blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels within desired ranges according to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, also reducing your risk of cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. But working toward a healthier weight offers another benefit says one doctor of chiropractic, especially as you […]
Bulletproof Your Body: The Importance of Resistance Training as We Age
By Jeff Remsburg, DC, MS, DACRB Aging is a natural process, but some aspects of it can be less appealing. The sagging skin, the decreased strength, the seemingly random joint pains, and of course the increased forgetfulness regarding where you put your phone. But perhaps one of the most serious aspects of aging is something […]
Exercise Can “Add Life to Your Years”
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommends we get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week. But exercise isn’t just about developing strong muscles and bones or even enhancing our cardiovascular health. As one doctor of chiropractic explains, it’s about so much more. Importance of Physical Activity with Age “You don’t just […]
Musculoskeletal Health Plays Important Role in Healthy Aging
As comedian George Burns once observed, “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” Burns, who lived to be 100, shared the sentiment of others who believe aging should not be an obstacle to a full and happy life. Yet chronic conditions and disability are common culprits that can rob the […]