Ashburn and Herndon Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All
New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is exercise more. Exercise is beneficial for young and old alike, increasing cognition, health, sleep quality, etc.. Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn trusts that including Ashburn and Herndon exercise to your daily life is an advantageous behavior that enhances your life in due course. Let’s get moving!
EXERCISE MOTIVATORS
Culture can be supportive of physical activity…or not. Researchers studied a variety of motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is an act of self-determination, they described the combination 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 influences. (1) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn has to find out what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? Out of the house? Maybe some mindfulness? To enrich the exercise effort, including mindfulness appears hopeful. Researchers found though that people 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 averting mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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? Of course not! 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 dancing – ballroom, aerobic and Latin - as being valuable. (3) Important motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – linked to reduced brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to bring back normal brain function. (4) That’s what Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care incorporating spinal manipulation.
OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS
Curious researchers tackled the question of older adults’ goals, motivations, and self-determination motivators to follow a healthy lifestyle and do activities to support that lifestyle like exercising and eating well. Factors like personality and goal-setting habits were suggested influencers. (5) Even in kids, researchers observed 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 associated with sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids said they had poor sleep. 24.9% did not sleep more than the recommended 9 hours. Girls were less physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy habits worsened children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality bettered their reaction time in a visual attention exam. (6) Poulin Chiropractic of Herndon and Ashburn 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 describes chiropractic care for back pain due to a disc herniation with Cox® Technic on The Cox8 Table.
Schedule your Ashburn and Herndon chiropractic appointment soon. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely boost your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
