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The knee is primarily a hinge joint, made up of the femur and tibia. Although it moves primarily through flexion and extension, it must also rotate! Twisting activities make up about 50% of routine daily activities, including normal walking. It is far more common in sports. More than 120,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries happen […]
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Don’t get SAD, Get Outside & Move Better! Indoor social gathering places are closed, winter is coming, and working from home is the new norm. Naturally, we are all staying home a lot more often. How often? Although over 90% of people believe that they spent two thirds (66%) of their day indoors, the real
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The Stats Chronic low back pain in American adults has consistently accounted for the largest number of years lived with disability in 1990 and 2010. Health expenditures for adults with spinal problems has been progressively increasing from the 1990s to 2000s and were estimated at roughly $6,000 per person with chronic low back pain in
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The rotator cuff is a confluence of 4 muscles: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis and teres minor. Despite being called the “rotator” cuff, these muscles aren’t major rotators. Their primary function is to keep the head of the humerus depressed and centered into the glenoid fossa. This isn’t to stabilize or limit motion – its to allow
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PUMPKIN POWER BALLS Prep time: 5 mins Bake time: 0 mins Ingredients 1 + cup pumpkin purée 1 + cup old-fashioned oats Pumpkin seeds chocolate chips raisins cinnamon We had leftover pumpkin puree, so we made easy pumpkin power balls. Add oats, raisins, chocolate chips, and some cinnamon to pumpkin puree until a cookie
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PUMPKIN OAT MUFFINS Prep time: 5 mins Bake time: 18-20 mins Ingredients 6 tbsps coconut oil ⅓ cup maple syrup 2 eggs 1 cup pumpkin purée ¼ cup milk of choice (I used coconut almond milk) 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon ground ginger, ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt
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The problem with rehabilitation is the very definition of it. To “rehabilitate” means “to restore to a former capacity.” When it comes to injury rehabilitation, this implies that we are trying to restore someone’s health or capacity to the level they were at pre-injury. However, the state of health or physical capacity pre-injury was not
The basic concept of food and why we need it is actually quite simple. Unfortunately, due to food processing and borderline criminal marketing, choosing what to eat has become confusing. We’ve lost our basic understanding of what food is, preventing us from making healthy food choices. We’ve been sold the idea of miracle diets (keto,
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Effective training is a careful balancing act over the long haul. A balance of training and recovering, to maximize performance and avoid overtraining or undertraining. We have to remember that each workout is weighted differently, and the point of “balance” is always changing. How do you train hard without overtraining? How do you recover without
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Sesame Tofu w/ Garlic, Ginger & Greens Prep time: 10mins (30 mins if you don’t have a microwave) Cook time: 10 mins What is tofu? Tofu is a plant based protein food. Basically, condensed soy milk pressed into solid white blocks. Unlike most other plant-based proteins, soy protein is a complete protein (It provides all
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