Continuing with our healthy aging series, let’s discuss possibly the absolute most important factor to us aging in a healthy manner, sleep. We have previously discussed the importance of maintaining lean mass, energy production (mitochondrial density), and mobility; and how they all play a role in our ability to age well. As we age, one […]
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The Importance of Mobility to Healthy Aging Let’s continue with our healthy aging series. If you have missed our last two posts of this series on improving mitochondrial density and function and the importance of lean mass, I would encourage you to go back and review these two posts. In this post, we are going
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In our last post, we began our healthy aging series and discussed the importance of maintaining lean (muscle) mass to healthy aging. Today, we are going to discuss another important aspect to healthy aging, mitochondrial (I know, mito “what”, just hang with us for a minute) function and density. Mitochondria are vital to life and
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Aging is an inevitable process, but the way we age can vary greatly depending on lifestyle, genetics, and environmental factors. One of the most crucial elements in promoting healthy aging is maintaining lean mass—particularly muscle and bone. As we age, our bodies naturally lose muscle mass and bone density, a process known as sarcopenia and
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Moving on with our clinical series we will wrap things up with the elbow and wrist. The elbow and wrist are similar almost the equivalent of our knee and ankle of the upper extremity. However, there are some functional differences particularly in the comparison of the elbow and knee. Elbow and Wrist Anatomy & Function
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Coming off of our post on knee pain, we are going to move just below the knee to the foot and ankle. With all of the regions that we have previously clinically discussed, there may not be a more important one than the foot and ankle. The foot and ankle are literally our bottom block
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Continuing on in our clinical series we will move just below the hip to discuss knee pain. The knee can be a very problematic and painful joint. This is supported by the fact that the knee is by far the most commonly replaced joint in our body, being responsible for 54.5% of all joint replacement
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Following our last discussion on shoulder pain, we are going to discuss the other ball-and-socket joint in our body, the hip (known as the femoroacetabular joint, as it is formed by a connection of our femur, thigh bone, and the acetabulum, a socket formed in our pelvic bone) and some of the more common reasons
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Shoulder Anatomy & Function So moving on from the neck, we are going to move just below the neck to the shoulder and discuss shoulder pain. When looking at the shoulder, we often think of the shoulder as the ball and socket joint where our upper arm bone (known as the humerus, the ball of
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Coming off our discussion on low back pain, let’s move into another common area of pain, the neck. Neck pain has become more prevalent over the last decade or so, relative to technology and communication. The progression of our everyday tasks being handled by computers, tablets, and cell phones has its advantages, but not when
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