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Here is a great video from the Today's Show that shows how to parent children who struggle with being overweight.
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But, Dr. Nieman says, high-intensity exercise over long periods, like running a marathon, can "take a good thing too far." Such exertion can induce the release of stress hormones in the body that damp some functions of the immune system temporarily, increasing susceptibility to infection for short periods. He cites a five-year study he conducted on 350 athletes who completed an ultra-marathon 160-kilometer race in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Among the contestants, one out of four reported sickness in the two weeks following the races.
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Throughout November and December, Pure Fitness collected canned food items in order to feed over 20,000 families this holiday season. Pure Fitness partnered with Fox 10 and My 45, to bring the valley the biggest food drive of the year, benefiting Phoenix First Assembly Church and their Adopt-the–Block program. On December 20th, thousands of needy families from all over the valley, were bused to Phoenix First Assembly where they witnessed the true testimony of giving as we handed out over 40,000 food bags to those in need. In addition, each child received a Christmas present to help celebrate the holidays. Pure Fitness employees came ready to serve the community as they passed out presents and food for over two hours. Thousands of families will have a brighter and healthier holiday season thanks to our members and guests, who helped bring our goal to serve to fruition. Thank you for your support, encouragement and participation.
Here are a few pictures of the tremendous impact you have made!
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Finding STRENGTH in Today Housing Market
Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:00 AM
Chandler Pure Fitness
Pure Fitness has invited financial experts to give a seminar on how you can be financially wise in this housing market!
You will learn:
Open forum setting. Bring your questions, family, friends and neighbors...
Presented by Arizona Best Real Estate and Pioneer Title: Vicky Stearns and Kerri Shearer
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There are more options then just treating sports injuries with RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation) and NSAIDs
Effective management of sports injuries requires first understanding the body’s injury process. Most sports injuries occur through repetitive motion or overuse injuries, and only a small portion come from a direct traumatic event that involves fracture, full thickness muscle tears, or tearing of cartilage or ligaments. What I am going to focus on is overuse injury which happens all the time when working out with weights.
If we look at muscles as a simple pulley system. The rope represents the muscle, the weight, the bone. Muscles contract to move bone. If we pull on the rope it lifts the weight. During training sessions in the gym you will put extreme amounts of load on the body. This repeated or sustained contractions associated with working out causes a decrease in blood flow to the working muscles and tendons. This lack of blood flow then causes an accumulation of waste products. These waste products are very similar to those produced when a muscle is torn. The waste products in turn attract the cells that produce scar tissue. This is helpful if indeed you have torn a muscle, but in the case of overuse in
Overuse injuries usually start with one muscle or tendon developing scar tissue. The involved muscle is then weakened, requiring neighboring muscles to become overworked. With continued use and time, the neighboring muscles begin to develop scar tissue. This cycle of increasing load, buildup of scar tissue, and degeneration continues until the body can no longer compensate. At this point, the system has broken down and chronic pain sets in.
Tendinosis versus Tendinitis
In 1979, surgeons Robert P. Nirschl and Frank A. Pettrone removed sections of injured elbow tendons from patients and examined them under a microscope. Remarkably, they found no inflammation. Instead, they found that the tendons were degenerated, swollen, grayish rather than white, and soft. Tendinosis is the correct name for this condition, which has for years been mislabeled as tendinitis.
NSAIDs treatment will only work if there are inflammatory cells present at the site of injury.
Tendinosis Treatment
Now if we go back to our pulley system analogy, to represent scar tissue you can imagine rust on the pulley wheel. So much rust that the wheel can hardly turn. Now if we pull on the rope the wheel won’t turn smoothly so it takes far greater force to lift the weight. That extra force might fray the rope i.e a tear in the muscle or at the very least put more tension causing muscle soreness and inflammation. The solution to the problem is not to keep pulling harder on the rope with added exercise as in traditional physical therapy, or to treat with NSAIDs. To correct this problem we need to apply a lubricant like WD40 to the rusty pulley wheel. Once the pulley wheel is free to move – then you can start to pull on the rope to lift the weight.
In the body, we break up scar tissue formation by using manual therapy techniques like Active Release Techniques and Graston Technique before rehab exercises are performed. These techniques are designed to free up the scar tissue that forms.
The time it takes to break up the scar tissue can vary greatly from person to person. In general, the longer you have had a condition, the more scar tissue there is the longer it takes to treat. In most cases, after each treatment an immediate improvement should be felt with better range of motion and less pain. After about 24-48 hours the tissue starts to tighten. The most effective treatment plan is to have another treatment session about 48-72 hours later, until the scar tissue has been broken down and then the strengthening and rehab can begin.
Dr. Billingham, D.C. is certified in the treatment and management of soft-tissue injuries. He has treated athletes and patients of all levels with an outstanding success rate. For more information you can visit his website at www.sportsfxmed.com.
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