by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 2 Fast forward a few months….Since that initial day of waking up with excruciating neck pain, the pain ebbed and flowed. But it never went away……ever. So, the good physical therapist in me decided it was time to see a...
by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
A Quick and Easy Way to Measure Your General Fitness Most people are familiar with heart rate (sometimes called your pulse) — the measure of how fast your heart is beating. For a typical adult: A normal heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Throughout the...
by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 3 Welcome to Part Three of my chronic pain story. If you missed out on Part One read it here and Part Two read it here. Over the next few Years I was on a mission to sort out my pain. I went practitioner shopping on a grand scale….I...
by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
Dehydration? Fatigue? Muscle Cramps Explained Have you every had a “charley horse”?A painful muscle spasm that can really stop you in your tracks. These cramps can impair athletic performance, cause some serious soreness (sometimes lasting up to 8 hours!) and are just...
by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
My Journey With Chronic Pain: Part 4 If you missed part one, two, or three be sure to check them out as this is a continuing story. Now on to part four! At this point I was really identifying as being a person with neck pain. All of my Christmas and birthday presents...
by hmdg | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog
Why Cancer Survivors Should Exercise We are fortunate to live in a time where improvements in detection and treatment of cancer have resulted in more and more people living meaningful lives after a cancer diagnosis. The National Cancer Institute found that “in 2016,...