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Low back pain affects nearly two-thirds of Americans. However, a whopping 37 percent do not seek professional help for pain relief, according to the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Move Forward Low Back Pain Survey. “Most people experience low back pain at some point in their lives, but many people don’t realize they can [...] Parkinson’s patients who participated for two years in resistance exercise, also known as weight training, experienced improvements in tremors and other motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, according to a study presented at the April 2012 American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting. Researchers studied 48 Parkinson’s disease patients. The patients participated in one of [...] For the elderly, the risks of having to go into a nursing home and, even death, rise sharply the year following a hip fracture. Australian researchers report that a year-long regimen of high-intensity weight-lifting exercise, balance training and other targeted interventions might minimize these negative outcomes. The researchers’ aim was to determine if treating [...] |
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