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Burlington and Hamilton Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All

New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is exercise more. Exercise is beneficial for young and old alike, enhancing cognition, health, sleep quality, etc.. Spinal Care Clinic trusts that including Burlington and Hamilton exercise to your daily life is a positive behavior that enhances your life in due course. Let’s get moving!

EXERCISE MOTIVATORS

Culture can be supportive of physical activity…or not. Researchers evaluated various motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is an act of self-determination, they detailed the combination of autonomy, competence, ego, task, and relatedness of these in the motivation to exercise. American subjects were more autonomous, task oriented, and physically active than Turkish subjects telling researchers and ultimately us clinicians to adapt exercise to the patient and his/her influences. (1) Spinal Care Clinic has to find out what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? At-gym? Maybe some mindfulness? To enrich the exercise effort, inserting mindfulness appears promising. Researchers found though that many have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is beneficial to mental and overall health. One study analyzed the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in averting mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Spinal Care Clinic appreciates those types of benefits!

BENEFITS FOR COGNITION, PAIN RELIEF WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

A pill maybe?! None of us would confess to wanting a pill to be physically fit…or would we? No! As the pharmacological world looks for drugs to enhance cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also reported on nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even dancing – ballroom, aerobic and Latin - as being beneficial. (3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors combined with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – related to decreased brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to bring back normal brain function. (4) That’s what Spinal Care Clinic does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care featuring spinal manipulation.

OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS

Curious researchers tackled the question of older adults’ goals, motivations, and self-determination motivators to follow a healthy lifestyle and participate in activities to support that lifestyle like exercise and eating well. Factors like personality and goal-setting habits were proposed as influencers. (5) Even in kids, researchers observed that behaviors like breakfast eating, exercise, and sleep patterns influenced their healthy lifestyle. Foregoing breakfast in the morning – 11% of kids in one study did this – was associated with sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids said they experienced poor sleep. 24.9% did not sleep more than the suggested 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Sad news: Such unhealthy habits impaired children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality enhanced reaction time in a visual attention exam. (6) Spinal Care Clinic is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Douglas Pettit on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares chiropractic care for back pain due to a disc herniation with Cox® Technic on The Cox8 Table.

Schedule your Burlington and Hamilton chiropractic appointment today. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.

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