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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…