Category: Exercise & Rehab

This article discusses different types of exercises for various diseases. Aerobic Exercise for: Low back pain, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hip fractures, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, anxiety disorders, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, after kidney transplants, breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and…

If you’re trying to reduce blood pressure, you may want to consider performing isometric training. This article published in the Journal of Hypertension, showed that you may be able to reduce the systolic, diastolic blood pressure numbers with isometric exercises.  CLICK HERE to watch  a brief video of an example of isometric training. ~ Dr.…

Women hear that they should try to walk about 10,000 steps per day, but a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Internal Medicine could not find the origin of this number of steps.  Rather, when they looked at the data, they found that about 7,500 steps per day is where the…

Naveed Saleh, MD, MS, for MDLinx | April 10, 2019 It may seem counterintuitive to prescribe exercise for chronic pain—after all, vigorous movement could seemingly irritate physical ailments. But since the 1980s, physicians have been recommending that patients with chronic pain avoid bed rest and remain active instead. According to some studies, exercise may offer…