You & Olympians: Have Pain, Find Relief, Return to Exercise Year-Round
Everyone needs to exercise. Everyone needs to move. Physical activity is for each and every one of us. Is 5K running or rappelling up a cliff necessary? Nope! Walking is terrific. Muscle strengthening is superb. Gardening when the season is right is amazing. No gyms are even required for the physical activity that will keep you feeling good. If a knee or back injury occurs – and they do to the best of us! – your Sitka chiropractor at Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to return you to moving with gentle, safe spinal distraction manipulation…and knee distraction for the common matter of knee pain!
EXERCISE IN ANY WEATHER
A study done in Finland in 2017 traced the physical activity participation of 18-64 year olds and 65+ year-olds. Researchers discovered that the 18-64 year olds achieved the recommended guidelines for physical activity – 42% of men and 39% of women – better than the 65+ year olds – 26% men and 20% women. What were the most popular activities people did throughout that time? Cleaning/maintenance work, walking, and stair climbing. What exercises did they do most consistently all year regardless of age/gender/season? Muscle-strengthening exercises and workout. Swimming, skiing, gardening, jogging, and stair climbing were more age/gender/season dependent. The researchers ultimately concluded that there are particular conditioning activities people will do. Suggestions for physical activity recommendations must use those to encourage the most physical activity possible. (1) What do you like to do? Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is confident our Sitka chiropractic patients and their families can discover exercises to do any time of year! Heck, even in snow, a good snowball toss can get us moving!
OLYMPIC EXERCISE
Winter and summer, Olympians move! They are really like us though their training may be a bit more on the intense side. Elite athletes like the Olympians cope with pain and depression and keep going. A study of Olympians from the 1948 to 2018 games found that 32.4% describe current pain, and 35.9% have functional limitations they connect to their Olympics’ days. Knee (20.6% lasting for a median of 120 days) and lumbar spine (13.1% continuing for 100 days) were the top two injuries Olympians suffered in their training days. Depression was recounted by 6.6% of them. (2) Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka presents these Olympians’ stats with our Sitka chiropractic patients letting them know thery are not alone in their pain struggles.
KNEE EXERCISE and SMT WITH COX®
Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka is ready to help when knee pain and back pain impact you. Gentle Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction and Spinal Manipulation and its distraction adaptation for knees are pain-relieving. Make an appointment, and discover it for yourself! A few sessions and you will be excited to get out and move, walk, garden, build a snowman, and more!
CONTACT Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates how his adaptation of Cox® Technic distraction principles for treating painful knees relieves knee pain.
Schedule your Sitka chiropractic appointment soon. Join everybody else who comes to Arctic Chiropractic, Sitka with knee and back pain and leaves to start moving again, gardening again, walking again, rolling up snowballs again with a little extra spring in their step! Get out, and exercise!
