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The Canadian Armed Forces has thrown out dated fitness testing in favor of real-world tasks. Sit-ups tossed out.

The Toronto Star published a story recently (January 20th, 2016) with the headline, “The Death of the Sit Up”.  The article immediately popped up on my social media feeds because one of the consultants mentioned in the article is Stuart McGill, PhD.  Dr. McGill is a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo. […]

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Just when you think you have cholesterol all figured out, a study/article like this happens!

Outside of muscular / skeletal issues, one of the biggest complaints we hear about at our office is our patients having troubles with cholesterol medications and cholesterol levels.  A very interesting article on The New York Times popped up on my news feed this weekend discussing the results from a new cholesterol drugs trial that […]

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Keeping open communication is one key for parents to help young athletes prevent injuries

An awesome link popped up on our twitter feed this morning concerning parent-child communication being very important in helping to prevent injuries in younger athletes.  We have found that when children can openly discuss aches, pain, and injuries with their parents, they ultimately get better care and injuries are better tended to.  As parents ourselves, […]

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South Jersey Sectionals – Cross Country Delsea High School – November 5th, 2016

A few weeks back, Dr. Mark, Dr. Andrew, and myself, Dr. Craig all attended the South Jersey Sectional Cross Country races at Delsea High School.  This has become a yearly tradition for our offices since we treat runners from a several South Jersey School Districts that all meet at Delsea to find out who moves […]

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“Walking is not a very good back exercise” mentioned on PBS this weekend, not a very good opinion

I was slightly shocked listening to a show on PBS this weekend discussing all forms of exercises to help with aging.  On the the show they were discussing a wide variety of exercising from a large panel and the topics of discussions were yoga, pilates, stretching routines, swimming, cycling, running and many other forms.  A […]

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Why good posture matters – Links to Harvard Health

Here is a link to the article posted at Harvard Health: http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/why-good-posture-matters At first I thought possibly that they had somewhat copied my work, but this wasn’t this case since there original blog post went live in 2015, soundly beating me to the punch, but overall and all kidding aside, a lot a of the […]

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Our new SMART Tools Plus Kit is here! Better than a new phone book!

A few months back we ordered our new SMART Tools Plus Kit for the main office and they came in last week, just in time for the Cross Country Sectionals and States races that we are highly involved with here in South Jersey.  SMART Tools are medical grade 304 stainless steel instrument assisted soft tissue […]

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We got a shout out recently and you can bet we are going to let the world know!

Our good friend and patient recently gave us a shout out on her blog where she discusses all of the most important things in South Jersey, at least as they apply to her.  The blogger goes by the name FueledByLOLZ and we treated a few “pain in the butt” issues she had earlier this year […]

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Peyton Manning gets Active Release Technique, a lot of it, and he would probably tell you to give it a spin as well!

So Mr. Never Give Up is back and possibly riding out his final rodeo in a few weeks at the “Golden” Super Bowl at the new Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco, California.  I’m guessing you have an idea of who I am speaking of, a few neck surgeries, a bad plantar fascia, a few cases […]

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