Physical exercise is a crucial part of improving and preventing subluxations and spinal joint dysfunction.
Regular activity, coupled with a balanced diet, will increase your likeliness of staying healthy and slowing down the aches and pains associated with growing older. Other advantages of regular exercise are enhanced energy, endurance, and a healthier body image.
We strongly encourage all patients to take the time to work on flexibility exercises, cardiovascular exercise, and strength training. By following an exercise program while you are in good to moderate health, you will be forming good lifelong habits that will promote your maximum health potential.
Every decade, starting when you are about forty years old, the average person loses seven pounds of muscle. Unfortunately, fat takes the place of the lost muscle tissues. The less muscle you have, the less they can eat without gaining weight, because they have less active tissue to burn off calories, whether at rest or during exercise. The everyday twenty-five year old man has roughly eighteen percent body fat. By age sixty five, the same gentleman will have increased up to thirty-eight percent body fat! Much of the fat gained over the years is due to losing vital, active, calorie burning muscle.
Regardless of whether your goal is strengthening your core, or getting your body in shape, Dr. Yoder will work with you to design a customized exercise program just for you, that will help strengthen and correct your specific problem areas.