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• Lifelong physical activity increases bone density in men

  Posted on: 06 April, 2018

  Men have many reasons to add high-impact and resistance training to their exercise regimens; these reasons include building muscle and shedding fat. Now a researcher has determined another significant benefit to these activities: building bone mass. The study found that individuals who continuously participated in high-impact activities, such as jogging and tennis, during adolescence and young adulthood, had greater hip and lumbar spine bone mineral density than those who did not.

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• Care of Shoulder Pain in the Overhead Athlete.

  Posted on: 06 April, 2018

  Shoulder complaints are common in the overhead athlete. Understanding the biomechanics of throwing and swimming requires understanding the importance of maintaining the glenohumeral relationship of the shoulder. Capsular laxity, humeral retrotorsion, glenoid retroversion, glenohumeral internal rotation deficit, and scapular dyskinesis can all contribute to shoulder dysfunction and pain.

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• Back pain is common in highly active older adults

  Posted on: 06 April, 2018

  Many well-functioning and highly active older adults experienced back pain, which was linked with poorer perceived and observed walking endurance.

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• Jymmin: How a combination of exercise and music helps us feel less pain

  Posted on: 06 April, 2018

  Pain is essential for survival. However, it could also slow rehabilitation, or could become a distinct disorder. How strongly we feel it depends on our individual pain threshold. Scientists have discovered that this threshold can be increased by a new fitness method called Jymmin.

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• Innovative tissue engineering strategies to repair spinal disc herniation

  Posted on: 23 February, 2018

  New therapeutic approaches to repair herniated discs in the lumbar spine using novel tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies have shown promising outcomes in preclinical studies and target the underlying problem of disc injury or instability, unlike current nonsurgical and surgical treatments. Though these emerging biological repair methods still face challenges as they advance to and through clinical testing in patients, they may be able to offer significant pain

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