You & Olympians: Have Pain, Find Relief, Return to Exercise Year-Round
Everybody needs to exercise. Everyone needs to move. Physical activity is for each and every one of us. Is 5K running or rappelling up a cliff required? Not at all! Walking is terrific. Muscle strengthening is just right. Gardening when the season is suitable is wonderful. No gyms are even required for the physical activity that will make you feel good. If a knee or back injury happens – and they do to the best of us! – your Manahawkin chiropractor at Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is ready to get you back to moving with gentle, safe spinal distraction manipulation…and knee distraction for the familiar issue of knee pain!
EXERCISE IN ANY SEASON
A study conducted in Finland in 2017 traced the physical activity participation of 18-64 year olds and 65+ year-olds. Researchers discovered that the 18-64 year olds met the recommended guidelines for physical activity – 42% of men and 39% of women – better than the 65+ year olds – 26% men and 20% women. What were the most popular activities people performed throughout that time? Cleaning/maintenance work, walking, and stair climbing. What exercises did they do most consistently throughout the year regardless of age/gender/season? Muscle-strengthening exercises and workout. Swimming, skiing, gardening, jogging, and stair climbing were more age/gender/season dependent. The researchers finally concluded that there are particular conditioning activities people will do. Suggestions for physical activity recommendations must use those to encourage the most physical activity possible. (1) What do you like to do? Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is confident our Manahawkin chiropractic patients and their families can discover exercises to do any time of year! Heck, even in snow, a good snowball toss can get us moving!
OLYMPIC EXERCISE
Winter and summer, Olympians move! They are really like us though their training may be a bit more intense. Elite athletes like the Olympians deal with pain and depression and keep moving. A survey of Olympians from the 1948 to 2018 games found that 32.4% describe current pain, and 35.9% report current functional limitations due to their Olympics’ days. Knee (20.6% lasting for a median of 120 days) and lumbar spine (13.1% continuing for 100 days) were the top two injuries Olympians experienced in their training days. Depression was recounted by 6.6% of them. (2) Manahawkin Chiropractic Center shares these Olympians’ stats with our Manahawkin chiropractic patients to let them know thery are not alone in their pain struggles.
KNEE EXERCISE and SMT WITH COX®
Manahawkin Chiropractic Center is ready to help when knee pain and back pain impact you. Gentle Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction and Spinal Manipulation and its distraction adaptation for knees are pain-relieving. Make an appointment, and find out! A few sessions and you’ll be excited to get out and move, walk, garden, build a snowman, and more!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how his adaptation of Cox® Technic distraction principles for treating painful knees relieves knee pain.
Set up your Manahawkin chiropractic appointment soon. Join everybody else who comes to Manahawkin Chiropractic Center with knee and back pain and leaves to start moving again, gardening again, walking again, rolling up snowballs again with a bit more spring in their step! Get out, and exercise!
