Elgin Exercises Benefit Makes it a Good Resolution for All
New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is to exercise more. Exercise benefits young and old alike, boosting cognition, health, sleep quality, and more. Connected Chiropractic has confidence that including Elgin exercise to your daily life is a positive behavior that enhances your life in due course. Let’s get moving!
EXERCISE MOTIVATORS
Culture can be encouraging of physical activity…or not. Researchers evaluated a variety of motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is an act 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 customize exercise to the patient and his/her influences. (1) Tell Connected Chiropractic what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? At-gym? Maybe some mindfulness? To enrich the exercise effort, inserting mindfulness appears encouraging. Researchers found though that many have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is valuable to mental and overall health. A recent study examined the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Connected 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) Significant motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors combined with chiropractic care. Treating and easing chronic pain – linked to decreased brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was found to bring back normal brain function. (4) That is what Connected Chiropractic does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care featuring spinal manipulation.
OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS
Curious researchers tackled the question of older adults’ goals, motivations, and self-determination motivators to follow a healthy lifestyle and do things to support that lifestyle like exercising 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 influenced their healthy lifestyle. Not having 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 reported poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the suggested 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy habits worsened children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Good] news: Better sleep quality bettered their reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) Connected Chiropractic is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Douglas Pettit on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares chiropractic care for back pain due to a disc herniation with Cox® Technic on The Cox8 Table.
Make your Elgin chiropractic appointment today. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
