Tibialis anterior muscle

Introduction Strong is the New Skinny There’s this supposition in society that every woman wants and needs to be beautiful in order to be successful in life. In addition to society, there is an abundance of multi-billion dollar companies devoted to selling women products designed to “fix” them into look a certain way. These companies come into our lives with advertisements directed towards fashion, celebrity gossip, and now, makeup. I got excited when I saw MAC’s makeup advertisement entitled…

The Importance of Literacy “Evan call my mom now. I can’t get up!” I screamed while on the ground at the bottom of a stair set. I had taken a nasty spill while jumping some stairs my skateboard and it felt like my leg had been torn into two pieces at my knee. After going to the hospital and being told I had dislocated my knee, I went home on crutches in pain. I had a feeling this would be the end of my farfetched dream of becoming a professional skateboarder. I received a phone call a few…

Hippotherapy has been used as far back as the time of the Greeks. Hippocrates did a great deal of studying on this type of therapy process. Hippotherapy is a type of therapy that involves horses and people working together. The children will brush, tack, and ride their horse. Riding the horse allows the child to use their core more; therefore, improving their balance, and even motor functions. Through the years, hippotherapy has evolved and broken off into four separate types. There is: valuing,…

Summary: Brain Rules, by John Medina, explains how the brain works and how we affect it throughout our lives. The book is divided into 12 chapters, each explaining one “rule” of the brain, or the tendencies the human brain has. Rule 1: Exercise boosts brain power (Exercise) Exercise is critical to our health, both physical and mental. Exercising not only lowers your risk for physical and mental disease, it improves your ability to think as well. Exercise helps blood travel to the brain,…

unload the ulnar nerve from mechanical stress (Nakamichi et al., 2009). Patients education intervention studies emphasized the value of wearing an elbow extension splint at night if needed or limiting elbow flexion by wrapping a pillow around the anterior elbow, adjusting posture at work to reduce elbow flexion, using a hands-free headset with cell phone use, or padding the posterior surface of the elbow (Trehan et al., 2012). The studies concluded that patient education had the most impact on…

The most common cause of knee and hip pain in cyclists is iliotibial of the leg from the hip to the knee. Pain is caused when the band becomes tight and rubs over Tight inflexible lower extremity muscles may worsen the condition. Pain may also be caused anatomy." Dr. Asplund offers suggestions regarding how to adjust a bicycle to avoid these injuries- check them out if you are a biker! However, Jim Bledsoe on Sports Injury Bulletin disagrees that…

“Work hard in silence let success make the noise” this is a quote that perfectly sums up physical education for me. Physical education is a subject that varies topics. Whether is is basketball and ultimate frisbee or baseball and soccer. Physical Education is an important subject that does not only help improve physical appearance but it also helps develop each individual mentally. It has proven to help individuals when it comes to school work as well as to help boost their self-esteem. During…

cardio-respiratory endurance or aerobic fitness. Aerobic endurance is when the heart and lungs provide oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles…

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Running a 5k can be a very difficult task to do but when you can over exceed your expectation and do better than someone that you know is a better runner than you, can make you feel good about yourself. A 5k can be the easiest thing to do in the world if you run as part of your daily workout routine or do it as a sport but it can be a very challenging task as I thought it was when my dad told me about it a week before the race and I really had no time to train. My dad pressured myself to do the…