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Why I hate the Term Muscle Memory

The term “muscle memory” is thrown around by trainers, athletes, and other people without really understanding the meaning. Muscle memory can be defined as the idea that the muscles of the body contract in patterns to cause movement or maintain posture and are memorized on some level, either consciously or unconsciously (Muscolino, 2009). There are a couple things wrong with the concept and term muscle memory. T he term is mainly wrong because muscles have no capacity for

Overview of Tissue Healing Process

Healing is a complex process that can be defined as the process in which dead or injured tissue is replaced by living tissue that consists of the stages of the three broad stages of inflammation, fibroplasia or proliferation, and scar formation (A.T. Still University, 2017) The stages are not isolated incidents. Instead they overlap and happen simultaneously. Before the healing process begins hemostasis, the process of which the body controls bleeding, occurs. In hemostasis

Omega 3 supplements can be beneficial for general health

Omega 3 fatty acid supplements, like fish oil pills, are very popular among people to improve their general health and wellness. Omega three fatty acids or alpha linoleic acid, which is converted into eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or docosahexanaenoic acid (DHA) during beta oxidation are a type of fatty acid that the body cannot produce, are essential to maintain health and homeostasis (Glick & Fischer, 2013). Before a person decides if omega three supplementation they

Gluten Free? Don't need to be.

Going gluten free is a very popular dieting trend. A gluten free diet (GFD) is thought to work, because wheat and other gluten containing products cause obesity, cardiac diseases, and diabetes, and adherents to a GFD believe they can improve exercise performance, reduce inflammation and illness, and improve body composition through avoidance of gluten (Newberry, Mcknight, Sarav, & Pickett-Blakely, 2017). GFD have become popular despite there being little evidence to suppor

Add Activity while at Work

Technological advances are both a blessing and a curse. Modern society potentially ages the body faster and an inactive lifestyle potentially makes it harder to become active, forming a negative feedback loop. As technology improves, people perform less physical activity to survive, for leisure or for a job. I like to equate physical activity and exercise with Newton’s first law, which states an object at rest and object in motion remain in their state, unless acted upon w

Reloading the Upper Extremity

Reloading the Upper Extremity

The reload is the final step in Cook’s (2013) rehabilitation and exercise checklist. In the reload the goal of training interventions is to reinstate motor control, increase strength and power, and challenge a dysfunctional movement pattern the client has. The reload builds on the reset and reinforce, and supports the progress made in prior phases. The shoulder, the glenohumeral joint, is a very mobile joint that is inherently unstable. This happens when the head of the hu