The body’s core muscles are used for stability, balance, lifting, pushing, pulling, and movement. Engaging the core muscles means bracing and tightening the abdominal muscles,…
Mountain and trail biking is a fun way to exercise. Mountain biking requires total body/core strength, explosive power, balance, endurance, and agility to maneuver the…
Field hockey is one of the world’s oldest team sports, dating back to the classical Greek era. It also is recognized as one of the…
Table tennis is a sport that individuals of all ages and abilities can play. The small scale and reduced movement make it more accessible. It…
Agility is the ability to accelerate, decelerate, stabilize, and quickly change directions with proper form and posture. Everyone, athletes and non-athletes, use agility every day.…
All sports differ in the relative importance of various physical skills contributing to the game and individual performance. Baseball is a precision sport with fast,…
Volleyball is a dynamic game that requires players to be fast on their feet. Players have to be able to quickly shift into various position/s,…
 Stretching Fundamentals: Stretching benefits the body by keeping the muscles flexible, strong, healthy, and able to maintain optimal physical performance. As with any other discipline…
Athletes or weekend warriors hate to be sidelined from an injury or physical limitation. This is where chiropractic medicine and physical therapy for athletes can…
Urolithin A is the most abundant type of urolithin produced by the human microbiota. This nutritional compound is derived from ellagitannins and ellagic acid commonly…
Our body’s capacity to endure in a sport and the inflammatory processes that this exercise exerts over it depends on the synthesis and regulation of…
Physical activity has a heavy impact on our body composition. Body composition and specific methods like bioimpedance analysis and DEXA can describe an individual’s compartments.…
Bioelectrical impedance analysis allows an integrative, complete, duplicable, and easy body composition assessment that provides in-depth information about the patient’s nutritional status. This process makes…
Muscle wasting conditions have multiple etiologies. For example, sarcopenia is generally associated with aging, the decline of muscle function, and quantity. On the other hand,…
Muscle wasting is a prevalent finding in multiple chronic diseases, and it affects almost 70% of the patients suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The…
This is the first of three episodes Dr. Alex Jimenez brings to you where Medical Specialist talk about the complex role hormones play in our…
This is the third episode Dr. Alex Jimenez brings to you where Medical Specialist Talk about the complex role hormones play in our overall physiology…