This is a little inside bit from the Active Release Technique provider network where Dr. Leahy, the founder of ART reaches out to let us know how things are going up at the big office in Colorado. Sounds like a lot of fun treating athletes on the Superbowl Champion Denver Broncos. From a Sports Illustrated […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
America’s Fastest Marathoner, Ryan Hall, Is Retiring – Did we see a small sample in over training?
Did anyone else see all the news? The man who raced with such tenacity that he often left it all on the course is retiring. The past few years have been heavily dominated by Kenyan, Ethiopian, and a few other African distance runners, but during that time, two highlights of American running have been Meb […]
Massage Therapy is back at the Laurel Springs NJ office! Fiona Hesketh, Massage Therapist
Ask yourself this question, is there really anything better than a good massage? The benefits of a massage are fantastic and this is why we are super excited to announce that we have a new massage therapist working a few days at our office in Laurel Springs, NJ! Fiona Hesketh has been a long time […]
Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization – Another way to heel up better and recover faster!
So if you have been watching our Blogs and Facebook page lately you might have noticed that we picked up new IASTM (Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization) from Smart Tools. IASTM has been around for about 20 – 30 years now and adopted many different techniques dating back to Gua Sha, which was Chinese medicines version […]