Manchester Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All
New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is to exercise more. Exercise is good for young and old alike, enhancing cognition, health, sleep quality, and more. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has confidence that including Manchester exercise to your lifestyle 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 analyzed various motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is a result of self-determination, they detailed the mix 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 reminding researchers and ultimately us clinicians to tailor exercise to the patient and his/her interests. (1) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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 valuable to mental and overall health. One study analyzed the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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 improve cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also described nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even Latin, ballroom, and aerobic dancing as being useful. (3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and easing chronic pain – related to reduced brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to restore normal brain function. (4) That’s what Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care featuring spinal manipulation.
OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS
Curious researchers took on 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 saw that behaviors like breakfast eating, exercise, and sleep patterns influenced their healthy lifestyle. Not eating breakfast in the morning – 11% of kids in a recent study did this – was linked to sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids said they experienced poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the recommended 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy habits impaired children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality improved reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 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.
Make your Manchester chiropractic appointment soon. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
