Decoding Your Diet
Do you feel guilt for eating foods you know are labeled as unhealthy or fattening? Of course, every food this day has a good or bad annotation and leaves you and me feeling like I just added my freshman 15 all over again after those two slices of pizza. Luckily, food is much more than something that just adds inches to the waistline or self-doubt when we look at the mirror. Food is the source of our energy and our ability to conquer life’s challenges.
Read full blogHow Nutrition Can Have a Positive Impact on Reducing Aches and Pains
If you work with a physical therapist to help manage a chronic pain condition, you will probably receive some nutritional advice as part of the process. Physical therapists are not nutritionists, but providing nutritional advice to patients is well within the scope of a physical therapist’s duties. For some chronic conditions, dietary changes can make the biggest difference in reducing or eliminating pain. If you’d like more information on how nutrition and physical therapy go hand-in-hand, give our office a call.
Read full blogCore training vs. abdominal training- What’s the difference?
“Core training” and “ab training” are often used interchangeably to describe exercises that target the midsection of the body. However, it is a misconception to think that core training is the same thing as abdominal training. In this post, I’ll explain the differences between the two.
Let’s start with an anatomy lesson. The abdomen, better known as the abdominals, is a grouping of three layers of muscles. The front, first layer houses the rectus abdominis (the 6-pack muscle group) and the external obliques.
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