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Why Should We Blow Up Balloons For Exercise?
| |Why do the doctors at Back to Function have me blow up balloons for some of my rehabilitation exercises? Blowing up balloons facilitates the abdominal muscles. The abdominal muscles are flexors of the spine and trunk. By facilitating (turning on) the spinal flexors with balloon blowing you are helping to inhibit (turn off) the spine … Continue reading Why Should We Blow Up Balloons For Exercise?
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Natural Treatments for High Cholesterol
| |Have you been given the bad news lately from your doctor? According to a recent blood test, you have high cholesterol. You might not even be experiencing any noticeable symptoms, but you’ve seen the drug commercials and you know that having high cholesterol isn’t a good thing. But are taking drugs the only solution to … Continue reading Natural Treatments for High Cholesterol
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Why Sit-Ups Are Not Training Your Core
| |If you think doing sit-ups are training your core, you better keep reading so that you can rethink your “core” workouts. First of all, let’s define what the core is. What is the core? The torso and pelvis between the shoulders and hips (front and back of the body) is the core. Because of its size and capacity … Continue reading Why Sit-Ups Are Not Training Your Core
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9 Foods to Eat the Day After You Splurge
| |If you have been exercising and eating a well balanced diet, your will-power is about to be challenged in the next 2 months! First we have Halloween, and all that candy. Next, we have a Thanksgiving feast, then the December holiday parties that lead into the New Year’s eve celebration. But don’t panic, having 1 or 2 … Continue reading 9 Foods to Eat the Day After You Splurge
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How to Prevent the Cold and Flu
| |It’s the Fall and you know what that means… Cold and Flu season has begun. It is now that time of year that the heat of the summer is starting to wear off and kids have been in school long enough to expose each other to this season’s cold/flu viruses. The seasonal outbreak of the … Continue reading How to Prevent the Cold and Flu