LIPODEMA – Myofascial Release Center

Word of the day: LIPODEMA
a genetic condition usually found in women, where fat is abnormally stored on the limbs, most often the legs, but not the hands and feet. This fat is a different type of fat, and will not reduce with weight loss.
Learn more about it here: http://www.lymphedemapeople.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lipedema

Understanding Your Labs

Labs are a good way of getting an overall view of your health. Understanding what each measure means can help you discuss your options with your physician. For more information about your health and health care, make an appointment with us today! https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321303.php

Sit, stand, sit: The new science about how to best use your standing desk

Sitting is the new smoking, we’re told, and suddenly sit-stand desks are everywhere. But do we know just how healthy they are and the best ways to use them? Science is just now catching up to the trend, and you might be surprised at what research has uncovered. “When they first came out, sit-stand desks […]

The 8 Best Restorative Yoga Poses for Stress Relief

As anyone who’s ever done a Bikram or vinyasa class knows, getting your om on can be hard work. In these types of yoga, the idea is to move from pose to pose increasing heat and flexibility as you go. Restorative yoga, on the other hand, is all about slowing down. Here, fewer poses are held […]

Dry Needling at the Myofascial Release Center

We now offer dry needling. I dug up this article to explain the service, for more information, click on the images: Dry needling is a technique physical therapists use (where allowed by state law) for the treatment of pain and movement impairments. The technique uses a “dry”needle, one without medication or injection, inserted through the skin […]

Train Your Brain to Remember Anything You Learn With This Simple, 20-Minute Habit

If you want to remember what you learned from an interesting seminar or session, don’t take a “cram for the exam” approach when you want to use the info. That might have worked in college (although Waterloo University specifically advises against cramming, encouraging students to follow the aforementioned approach instead). Instead, invest the 20-minutes (in […]

100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.

There are 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain, and an unknown number of them have back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia symptoms, or other forms of pain that have no diagnosed physical cause. It’s not that their pain is “in their heads.” The truth is much more nuanced: All pain can have both physical […]

Here’s How Often You Should Really Be Washing Your Sheets

Autumn is fast approaching, which means your cosy duvet will be making a triumphant return. While there’s nothing like curling up in your bed to fend off the crisp fall nights, it also brings up the age-old question — how often should you change your bed sheets? Well, it turns out there’s not a simple answer.

Vitamin E Suspected In Serious Lung Problems Among People Who Vaped Cannabis

It’s still a mystery — what’s causing the cluster of severe respiratory illnesses among people who’ve used e-cigarettes? The FDA says there have been at least 215 reported cases in 25 states. Nearly three dozen of those cases are in New York state, and investigators there say they are now zeroing in on vitamin E […]

Mixing less than 6 hours of sleep with chronic disease is deadly combo

If you’re a middle-aged adult with high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes or existing heart disease and you typically sleep less than six hours each night, you could be setting yourself up for cancer or an early death from heart disease. That’s the discomforting results of a study that sleep-tested 16,000 adults between the ages […]

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