Williamson Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All
New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is ‘add exercise’. Exercise is beneficial for young and old alike, increasing cognition, health, sleep quality, and more. Apple Country Chiropractic believes adding Williamson exercise to your lifestyle is an advantageous behavior that ultimately enhances your life. Let’s get moving!
EXERCISE MOTIVATORS
Culture can be encouraging of physical activity…or not. Researchers studied various motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is a result of self-determination, they detailed 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 tailor exercise to the patient and his/her interests. (1) Apple Country Chiropractic 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 many have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is valuable to mental and overall health. One study examined the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in averting mental health issues and concluded that it held promise. (2) Apple Country Chiropractic appreciates those kinds 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 enhance cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also reported on nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even dancing – ballroom, aerobic and Latin - as being useful. (3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors combined with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – associated with reduced brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was found to bring back normal brain function. (4) That’s what Apple Country Chiropractic 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 follow a healthy lifestyle and do activities to support that lifestyle like exercise 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 affected their healthy lifestyle. Skipping 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 reported poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the recommended 9 hours. Girls were less physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy habits lessened children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality improved reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) Apple Country Chiropractic is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
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 Williamson chiropractic appointment now. A new year. A new resolution. Adding exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely boost your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
