New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is exercise more. Exercise is good for
young and old alike, increasing cognition, health,
sleep quality, etc.. Chiropractic Care trusts that adding West Palm Beach exercise to your lifestyle is a positive behavior
that ultimately enhances your life. 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 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 telling researchers and
ultimately us clinicians to adapt exercise to the
patient and his/her interests. (1) Chiropractic Care has to find out what motivates you! Simple?
Fast? At-home? At-gym? Maybe some mindfulness? To boost
the exercise effort, adding mindfulness appears promising.
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 looked
at the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing
mental health issues and decided that it held
promise. (2) Chiropractic Care appreciates those types of
benefits!
BENEFITS FOR COGNITION, PAIN RELIEF WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
A pill maybe?! None of us would admit
wanting to take 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 listed nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive
training, and physical activity, exercise, even dancing – ballroom, aerobic
and Latin - as being useful.
(3) Great motivators can be healthy lifestyle
behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving
chronic pain – linked to decreased
brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to
restore normal brain function. (4) That’s what Chiropractic Care
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 lead
a healthy lifestyle and do 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 noted 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 had poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the suggested 9 hours. Girls
were not as physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy
habits impaired children’s hand-eye coordination and
attention. Good] news: Better sleep quality bettered
their reaction time in a visual attention test. (6)
Chiropractic Care is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy
lifestyle goals.
CONTACT Chiropractic Care
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.
Make your West Palm Beach chiropractic
appointment now. A new year. A new resolution. Adding
exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your
health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.