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Before or after? When is stretching best?

It’s amazing how often we do things because “that’s how it’s always been done.” The COVID pandemic has at least one silver lining; it has forced us to revisit old habits.

We’re reexamining everything, it seems, including how we exercise—with gyms closed and all the other disruptions. That brings an opportunity. We are rethinking whether it is better to stretch before or after exercise.

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For chronic pain: meditation can help, long-term—with no risk or side effects

Following decades of over-prescription of opioid pain medications—opioid addiction has reached epidemic levels. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, over 190 million opioid prescriptions are written in the U.S., each year. That has led to over 11 million reporting abusing the drugs—and at least 15,000 overdose deaths, from prescription opioids, alone.

Opioids, like oxycodone and hydrocodone, have their place in pain management. But the medical community has new awareness of the dangers, especially considering revelations of questionable marketing tactics by some manufacturers. 

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The ELDOA Method has hit the Jersey Shore, coming soon to Haddonfield and Mount Laurel!

This past weekend, Jill Kemenosh, Dr. Mark Kemenosh, and CK Pilates hosted an introduction to The ELDOA Method to help combat typical areas of pain and tenderness with a new type of deep myofascial stretching.  ELDOA, which translates to LOADS (longitudinal osteoarticular decoaptation system) was developed by world renowned Osteopath, Guy Voyer, initially to provide […]

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What’s the opposite of a push-up? This pilates routine.

Dr. Kemenosh and his daughter Jill have been jumping back into Pilates with a vengeance of late!  Between the ELDOA Method and several different takes on Pilates, we have been watching videos from all walks of life improving their lives with exercise!  Check out Denver Broncos CB Kayvon Webster’s AM workout with True Pilates Miami! […]

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Yoga for improving health-related quality of life, mental health and cancer-related symptoms in women diagnosed with breast cancer.

So Cochrane reviews are very high standards of research and we found it very interesting recently that such a rigorous review supported yoga for improving the outcomes of women diagnosed with breast cancer.  Yoga has many pallative aspects of its practice as shown here in the following Cochrane review which looked at 24 studies and […]

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Kind words over at Green Jean Gardens – http://greenjeangardens.com/

Please note the following is taken from the newsletter at http://greenjeangardens.com/ …good morning in the garden… It’s ART… A body in motion is art, whether in the lyric expression of a ballerina, the speed of an Olympic runner, or the swing of a golf master. Or….the motion of a gardener? Not so much. At least we don’t think […]

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CNN Article – Here’s why you exercise so much and still can’t lose weight

We see a lot of runners in our office, as in A LOT OF RUNNERS, and we very proud of that niche!  We are the ones that occasionally have to tell them to stop running for a bit (which is always great fun… … …).  This article resurfaces every so often and is very important […]

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Today’s Google Doodle Commemorates Yoga! 12/14/2015

Did you see the Google Doodle today?  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, better known as B.K.S. Iyengar, was the founder of the style of yoga known as “Iyengar Yoga” and was considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world. Here are a few screen shots, but to really catch this beauty of a image, […]

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Williamstown Badgers Tri Club – Annual Lecture – Core Strength Concepts and the Zen Runner

Dr. Craig and Dr. Mark were invited to speak at the Williamstown Badgers Tri Club this past weekend at the Virtua Health and Wellness Center in Sewell, NJ (Washington Township more or less) on Active Release Techniques and had to pull an audible at the line of scrimmage because that is what we lectured on […]

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LA Times Article — Surfing icon Laird Hamilton shares his 10-point plan to live

Anyone that hangs around the office long enough knows that Dr. Kemenosh gets a little bit excited about surfing, paddle boarding, tropical storms, and just being around the ocean in general.  When this article went live on the LA Times website, I knew immediately we would have to link to it.  While a few of […]

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