From the CBS News Review: New guidelines from the American College of Physicians say the first line of therapy should be non-drug treatments. For pain lasting less than three months, those include heat wraps, massage, acupuncture and spinal manipulation (hey, that is what we do here at the office, combined with Active Release Technique). […]
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Hey South Jersey Trail Runners – Google Maps is Mapping Hiking Trails with a 50 Pound Backpack
Remember the Google Cars that drove around just about every major highway and roadway in the United States and Canada. Well now they have taken it to another level and are hikiing major trails in the USA and Canada with backpackers wearing a 50 pound pack that takes several pictures as they and tags them […]
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, […]
Science Daily: Warning: High-intensity training could hurt you if you’re not an athlete
The website Science Daily just recently published some interesting details pertaining to the recent viral growth of “high-intensity” or “sprint training” that has become quite popular over the past few years. The study was done by Canadian and European researchers and published by University of British Columbia. The premise of the study is that if […]
Stop Sports Injuries: Keeping a Balance in Youth Sports Participation
We love when articles like this are posted on StopSportsInjuries.org discussing student athletes and year round specialization in one single sports. While the idea behind this thought is that it best specializes the young athlete for optimal sport performance, it does not protect them against sports specific injuries very well and may even push them into […]
“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 […]
Built a standing workstation at the Laurel Springs Office for the Docs!
The time had come to start practicing what we preach at the head quarters office in Laurel Springs, NJ. We had some extra space with a half wall, so we decided to turn it into a standing desk as shown in the picture below. Standing desks are becoming more and more popular and we know […]
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 […]
I tried Pilates, and it was much harder than I ever thought it would be
Great video / article over at BusinessInsider.com about Pilates! I myself, Dr. Craig, found this out after having a few sessions with members of the Kemenosh family who have been doing Pilates 1 – 2 days per week for years. In this video the young man states “my friends told me your core is going […]