Mobility, coordination, and strength become more important as we age. Simple things we are for granted, like the ability to sit down on the floor and rise from that seated position require a degree of muscular strength and coordination along with joint mobility. This...
Posture seems to have a strong correlation to health in aging and physical capacity, but to what degree? Many of us have watched as our relatives age their posture begins to develop a strong forward lean and many times we begin to see the rounding of the upper back th...
Antioxidants are a hot topic in healthcare, but what do they have to do with Chiropractic?
In order to understand antioxidants and a potential role related to Chiropractic, it’s important to understand what antioxidants do. Oxygen radicals (also known as free radical...
"Where did you read that and where can I find a copy?"
I find myself asking those questions a lot lately. Whether someone is talking about Covid, a new nutrition "documentary" on Netflix, or any other health related topic, they seem to always cite some type of "scien...
In horse racing and equestrian sports there are a few different categories of horses. Horses are broken down into different breed types; hot bloods, cold bloods, and warmbloods. Hot blooded breeds are generally your thoroughbred horses. These are the blazing fast sp...
Whether or not you consider yourself an athlete, in my opinion, once you sign up for a race and put the date in the calendar and begin training for it you have undertaken an athletic pursuit. You have an end date to a training cycle in which you are expected to perfor...
Welcome back to the second edition of our article series for beginner runners. This week we are going to talk about building the aerobic base. If you missed part one you can find the link for it here. We also wrote an article on aerobic base not long ago...
I've been spending a lot of time driving lately, which means a lot of time at gas stations, which means a lot of time walking past cooler after cooler full of random beverages just to get to the one door that contains bottles of water (which is all we really need to be...
Hi everyone! Dr. Matt here. Some of you may have heard I am back in town earlier than expected. Long story short, I had a strange accident during TACP prep (basically a selection week) and I injured my knee. The injury wash back on top of the additional training pi...
