Drinking an adequate amount of water each day is absolutely essential to your health and wellbeing. Water helps regulate body temperature, delivers essential nutrients to cells, keeps organs functioning properly, helps prevent infections, and keeps joints lubricated. Maintaining proper hydration also affects your brain – it can improve your sleep quality, energy level, mood, and […]
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By Dr. David Bokermann, PT, DPT, C-PS Over the past six weeks, I have found myself utterly captivated by the game of pickleball. My wife and co-workers can certainly attest to the fact that my thoughts, conversations, and energy have been overwhelmingly focused on my new hobby. My previous experience with pickleball was limited to
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If resistance training is part of your fitness routine, you may be motivated by the actual muscle gains this type of exercise provides. From feeling stronger and more efficient in daily activities to actually seeing more definition in your muscles when you look in the mirror, some benefits of resistance training are obvious. But building
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What is intermittent fasting?The health and wellness landscape is certainly full of trends, and one nutrition strategy that has gained a lot of attention recently is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting, or “IF”, is defined as when a person alternates between periods of eating and periods of fasting. The terms “patterns” or “cycles” may also be
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What is NEAT?Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy your body uses to do everything other than sleep, eat, or formal exercise. In other words, it is the calories that are burned by the movements you make by going through your daily routine, not including those expended at the gym. There are a vast number
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By: Dr. Jesse Espe, PT, DPT, CSCS, CIDN So… What Is BFR exactly? In order to fully understand what blood flow restriction (BFR) training is and how it works, first we need to brush up on how the cardiovascular system works. In a nutshell, your arteries carry oxygenated blood to your working muscles, then your
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Welcome to my first official blog post. This is an exciting day for me as I am two months in to the start of my own performance based, out of network, physical therapy practice (RecoverRx Physical Therapy). Many people often ask me what is performance based physical therapy? Is this specific to athletes or open
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