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Tai Chi: The Medical Benefits Sean Zielinski Southern New Hampshire University Tai Chi: The Medical Benefits Tai Chi Ch’uan part of the Shaolin martial arts styles with influential bonds to the Buddhist monasteries, often shortened to Tai Chi, dates back to the 12th century. The ancient Chinese martial arts involves three primary aspects: Health, Meditation, and Martial Arts. Tai Chi, although originally a martial arts, is now mainly practiced today as a form of exercise with a plethora of…

Introduction Key feature of our independence in performing daily activities as human beings is mobility, which is the ability to independently and safely move oneself from one place to another. There are so many tasks and activities that integrate with mobility such as: the ability to stand up from a bed or chair, to walk or run, and to navigate through often quite complex environments. Our mobility incorporates with gait speed to complete our activities in a certain time. If a person can…

Discuss fitness tests or methods of evaluation that should be used to assess the client, providing rationale for your recommendations. Be sure to address the specific conditions presented by your client. It will be important to consider that his body is still going through puberty when designing a program for him. This offers a great opportunity to encourage him though, as this is when he can set up what the status quo will be for his adult life regarding his physical fitness and overall…

The concept of “aging in place” has become a centerpiece of public policy research and aid for the elderly in the United States. “Aging in place” is defined as the ability to live in one 's own home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level. The ability to age comfortably in their own home and community is essential to a healthy aging process. There are a number of measures the elderly can take to make sure that they are able to age in the…

Occupational Health has been defined as “the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations by preventing departures from health, controlling risks and the adaptation of work to people, and people to their jobs” (ILO / WHO, 1950). While this definition is more than 50 years old, it has not changed in meaning over the years. Case-in-point, WHO (2001) defines occupational health as “the enhancement of the physical, mental and…

Can preseason fitness help prevent injury? In effort to decrease knee join injury, Hewett and colleagues (1999) recommended all young female athletes participate in a training program that includes progressive resistance weight training. This is one of the few studies that collected data on athletes that completed a preseason training program. A trained athlete completed a 6-week muscular training program that incorporated flexibility, plyometric, and weight training. The entire study consisted…

Cervical Strain and Sprain With Rehab Cervical strain and sprain are injuries that affect the bones in the neck (cervical spine) and the soft tissues in the neck. A strain is when muscles or tissues (tendons) that connect muscles to bones stretch or tear. A sprain is when the tissues (ligaments) that connect bones stretch or tear. Cervical strains and sprains usually happen because of "whiplash" injuries. Whiplash is when the neck is forcefully whipped backward or forward. This condition can…

Im not sure really how much you know and how much training experience you have so i've put a bit of a synopsis below. however there is always more room to learn, one of the best bodybuilders in the world when asked for advice on training said "The body is important but the mind is more important"! In terms of dieting I always tell the woman I train to find out there BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate). This is how many colories you burn within 24hrs without getting out of bed. This is your calorie limit…

In Willems et al’s study of proprioception deficits among athletes with high rates of recurring lateral ankle sprains, they found that almost all of their subjects tended to under shoot the needed ankle during the test (Willems et al., 2002). In this study they had 4 groups of athletes to study. The control group were individuals who had no prior ankle injuries (Willems et al., 2002). The Instability group were individuals that had suffered from more than three inversion sprains and complained…

aspect of the thumb has more soft tissue than the lateral. The joint spaces all appear open, indicating the bones and the joint spaces are parallel to the image receptor. There also doesn’t seem to be any foreshortening of the phalanges showing no flexion or extension of the thumb. With collimation, I got really lucky, I didn’t have my metacarpophalangeal joint as the landmark for the central ray so the thumb wasn’t centered directly in the middle of the image. I am lucky that I didn’t cut off…