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Improve Your Aging Immune System with Exercise

It can be challenging to work up the motivation to exercise. It may sound cliché, but for most of us, the more persistent and consistent we are with an exercise routine, the more we look forward to exercising and how good it makes us feel. There will always be those days, however, that you just … Continued
DNA methylation

Can Exercise Turn Back Our Genetic Clock?

What if there was something you could do to slow aging? We’re not talking about artificially, a nip here a tuck there, but genetically slow the aging process? There’s one thing that consistently hits our radar in that proverbial Fountain of Youth search that has seemed so important not only in today’s world but throughout … Continued
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What Exercising as You Age Does for Your Muscles

Today we’re covering the fourth topic in our April exercise series: how exercise affects our muscles as we age. We know exercise is good for our muscles, but one study goes a bit deeper into its muscle benefits and looks at how exercise affects our muscles at the cellular level, possibly even slowing the aging … Continued
knee arthritis pain

Is Exercise Better than NSAIDs for Knee Arthritis Pain?

America, as a whole, loves its nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The tiniest ache or pain can send many running to their medicine cabinet for an NSAID to attempt to control that small pain before it gets worse. We see patients not only taking them to relieve pain but to prevent it before it even occurs, … Continued
patellofemoral syndrome

Can Exercise Help Cartilage in Patellofemoral Syndrome?

Exercise is good for so many things, but one of the questions we often get from our patients with musculoskeletal conditions is, Can I still exercise? In most cases, the answer is yes, and, in fact, in many cases, exercise may actually improve or relieve your condition. Patellofemoral syndrome or arthritis in the patellofemoral compartment … Continued
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PRP Vs. Hyaluronic Acid For Moderate Knee Arthritis

Your knee arthritis pain is limiting your ability and potential. Conservative therapy, including physical therapy, has not provided significant or sustained improvement. Your doctor has advised you that you have mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis. What to do? Hazards of Steroids Previous blogs have extensively reviewed the dangers associated with steroid injections which include: Acceleration … Continued
DDD

Can You Exercise with Degenerative Disc Disease?

Spring is here, and for many of us, that means those activity levels that dwindled off a bit, or a lot, throughout the cold winter months are starting to kick into high gear. The story may not be the same for those who suffer with degenerative disc disease – but let’s not jump ahead of … Continued
A2M for rheumatoid arthritis

Can Protein Help Treat Osteoarthritis And Rheumatoid Arthritis?

We sometimes use the A2M protein to treat patients with knee swelling and to provide cartilage protection in those with osteoarthritis. A recent study, however, suggests A2M may also protect cartilage in those with a much different type of arthritis: rheumatoid arthritis. What Is Rheumatoid Arthritis? Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) falls under the umbrella of autoimmune … Continued
slow aging

Do Stem Cells in Our Brain Control Aging?

Can stem cells help science find the key to slow aging? And does it have anything to do with the brain? The common phrase age is just a state of mind may be a clever way of figuratively saying we’re only as old as we think or feel, but it may be more literal than … Continued