Health
Health Advice
With the media raising our awareness about what goes into our bodies, and how our bodies look, our need for healthy products and resources to keep us fit has sky rocketed.
More and more people are going to the gym, running, cycling, climbing, swimming to get themselves into shape, or have purchased the latest equipment to take there exercise into the home or outdoors (not always the easiest option when you have to motivate yourself).
Riding a horse has grown to be a rewarding activity for a lot of people, its combination of outdoor activity and animal contact has made it appealing for a lot. Once you have fed and watered the horse its worth taking the grooming brushes to them, to get their coats nice and glossy before heading of into the wilderness. The unfortunate side to horse riding is the manifestation of sciatica and slipped discs brought on by the repetitive motion and the sometimes jarring fall. it may be worth keeping the address of a good physio centre at hand as well as a good medical equipment supplier.
If your undertaking it to be a part of the scene or feel the attraction of the coast, surfing is a fantastic type of exercise and takes you outside. After moving into a rip to tow you out, you catch a wave to carry you back in. Once you jump up onto the board, you traverse the wave as far in as you can and then start the cycle all over again. You must ensure that when jumping of the board, you don’t jar yourself against the ground, which might trigger a session of sciatica. When holding the board, look out for heavy gusts of winds that can catch the board and twist your shoulder which could trigger supraspinatus.
If you find that as you are doing any form of exercise you have cold hands and feet it might be useful discovering if you suffer from reynauds syndrome. This
can effect in many situations but in sport it can have a dramatic effect on performance, for instance if you hammer about on trials bikes the vibration mixed with a squeezing action can really bring on this problem. This can often be remedied with the use of connective tissue manipulation to permit the blood to flow correctly the two places I can think of that deal with this are physio london and the gillingham physio centre.