You’re Never Too Old to Start Exercising

You’re Never Too Old to Start Exercising

The most difficult thing about starting to exercise later in life is knowing how to start. It’s the same if you try to learn a new skill or engage in a new hobby for the first time. If you have nobody to teach you, how are you supposed to learn? These days, you have...
Two Ways an Injury Can Affect the Rest of Your Body

Two Ways an Injury Can Affect the Rest of Your Body

The shin bone’s connected to the…neck bone? Not directly, no. But in a circuitous way, your entire body is one intricate web of parts that all affect one another in ways both obvious and discrete. Have you ever pulled a muscle in your neck or lower back, only to...
Fascia Explained

Fascia Explained

Fascia Explained You have hundreds of muscles in your body. Ever wonder how they all keep their specific shape? Why don’t muscles constantly knot up and get twisted around? How do skeletal muscles stay secured to bones without fraying at the ends? Fascia is how....

Preventing Muscle Atrophy As You Age

Why does the astronaut run on a treadmill in space? No, it’s not the set-up to a hilarious joke – this astronaut is preventing sarcopenia. Sarcopenia, also known as muscle atrophy, is the wasting or loss of muscle tissue. In space, the lack of gravity...
How to Safely Travel While Rehabbing an Injury

How to Safely Travel While Rehabbing an Injury

Imagine that you’re one month into recovering from surgery that repaired your torn ACL – but you’re a bridesmaid in a destination wedding in Tuscany. You could bail. You could stay home on the couch while your friends and family gulp down Chianti by the...