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Remember good cholesterol? You know, HDL cholesterol, the kind that was associated with reduced risk of stroke? Forget it. Now comes a study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute suggesting that people with genes that boost HDL levels do not, in fact, have a lower risk of heart attacks. Strange. The Boston Globe reports that the scientists in looked at a gene variation that raises HDL levels, and should consequently give people a 13 percent decreased [...]
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What doesn’t break your bones makes them stronger. Especially if what doesn’t break your bones is a load-bearing sport like basketball or volleyball. How to we know? Because when researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden measured the bone mass of more than 800 young men and studied their exercise habits, they found that after five years, the men who did a lot of load-bearing activities at the start of the study and those who increased their amounts of [...]
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Sports physiologists have yet to analyze the muscle groups that benefit most from the popular Yemenite entertainment plainly named “camel jumping,” but we’re guessing it’s good for the core, and not so good for the ankles. The New York Times’ Lens gives us an enlightening photo essay, shot, admittedly, by a photographer in Yemen who got bored waiting around for actual news. Anyone up for an over-50 team?
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Don’t have time to read SportsGeezer because you just got an email? That’s a bad sign, according to researchers at the University of California at Irvine. Researchers at the school attached heart rate sensors to workers in a suburban office, and divided the users into two groups; one with email, one deprived. A university news release reports that people who read email were found to work in a steady “high alert” state, with more constant heart rates. Those removed from [...]
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The names of the products—Jacked3D, Oxy Elite Pro, Code Red, and Nitric Blast, should offer some clues to the kind of science behind their sales; the science of marketing. Now comes the science of medicine, brought to bear on these “workout boosters” by the Food and Drug Administration, which determined that the active ingredient in the supplements, dimethylamylamine or DMAA, said in marketing materials to increase energy, concentration and metabolism, actually increases blood pressure. The FDA has sent letters to [...]
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Researchers in the psychiatry and behavioral science department of Johns Hopkins Medical School have some radical advice for sufferers of chronic pain: don’t think about it. Isn’t that what my mother used to say? Futurity reports that researchers at the school surveyed 214 people with myofascial temporomandibular disorder, or TMD, serious facial and jaw pain, about their sleep quality, depression, pain levels, and emotional responses to pain, including whether they ruminate on it or exaggerate it. Guess what? The scientists [...]
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Why is is unsurprising that soda has been associated with a higher risk of stroke? Perhaps because it has long been associated with weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and coronary artery disease. Hmmm. Now, finally, comes a study from the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute and Harvard University, showing not only that sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke, but that coffee, either caffeinated or decaffeinated, is associated with a lower risk. A [...]
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Would you give up your arms and legs to live? Will Lautzenheiser, a 36-year-old instructor at the Montana State University, made that choice after his body was invaded by a flesh eating bacteria. Now Lautzenheiser is in the sites of the limb transplant team and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who would like to replace some of his sacrificed limbs. Read the whole story here.
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10:48 am
So can someone provide a URL (or a description) for “isolated eccentric wrist extensor strengthening exercises”??
1:45 pm
A significant typo is the use of the word “ball” in place of the word “bar.” An inexpensive rubber bar was used in this test as reported and shown here http://www.medpagetoday.com/Orthopedics/Orthopedics/15048
10:34 am
Can someone please explaing how to “perform isolated eccentric wrist extensor strengthening exercises with an inexpensive rubber ball.”?
Thanks,
Peter
10:48 am
So what IS this amazing exercise? None of the articles actually discloses this, they seem to be hiding the ball as it were.
11:47 am
The HealthDay article says that it’s a rubber bar rather than a bar. Same study? Another article
http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINTRE56D7G520090714
says that it’s a Thera-Band Flexbar Hand Exerciser.
But I could not find anything about it at the Nicholas Institute web site.
http://www.nismat.org/
Sounds good, I hate weak elbows and wrists, can you find out more?
4:08 am
HERE is the actual abstract, article and exercise protocol, with pictures how to perform the exercise.
http://info.thera-bandacademy.com/flexbarelbow
12:50 pm
So far, I have seen a picture of someone holding the bar (not ball) but I have not seen nor heard a description of the excercise.
Can you help us, Mr. Geezer?
Peter
10:09 pm
My Googles found much of the same…however http://www.medpagetoday.com/Orthopedica/Orthopedics/15048 showed the exercise with the BAR. I am not too sure where the wrist…extension comes into play…I would like to see more of this exercise as well
4:06 pm
copper bracelet takes care of all the pain. it takes a few days to work.
11:06 pm
It is pretty obvious at least for me by looking at the picture at this link. You use a rubber bar and judging by the hand position you start with both hands grabbing the bar with both hands in the same location then just bend one wrist forward and the other backward. Kinda like wringing out a wash cloth except you go forward then back then forward etc with both hands alternatly. Hope this helped.
http://info.thera-bandacademy.com/flexbarelbow
9:49 pm
Its been known for some time that stretching and strengthing the extensor-supinator muscle mass is the preferred treatment. Problem is no single method works for everybody. Otherwise I wouldn’t have to take patients who failed 18 months of conservative care to surgery. There is no ‘wonder stretch’. BTW whoever wrote this piece included a schematic of the medial elbow anatomy, which is the wrong perspective, it should be lateral.
12:13 pm
I believe what they are refering to is a simple Isometric exercise. For Example: Wet a heavy cloth and then twist/wring it out, HOLD for 3-6 seconds each time. Then switch direction of the twisting action.
* Good Luck
1:45 am
Tennis Elbow or Lateral Epicondylitis is a condition that causes extreme burning pain over the bone at the side of the elbow. It is majorly observed in tennis players and in men than women. Some prevention which one can take is, halting any form of activity that leads to pain and inflammation, applying ice or cold water pack on the problem area, trying to raise the elbow at regular intervals, physiotherapy also helps.
9:28 am
i have a particularly annoying case of tennis elbow and i just did the exercise in this video:
http://info.thera-bandacademy.com/flexbarelbow
i did it WITHOUT the bar and was amazed at how much better my arm felt after 10 reps! i had to imagine the twisting and use my own muscle resistance, but geez. maybe i don’t have to blow 20 bucks on a foam rubber stick.
9:35 pm
I know that there is someone who is going to find the way on how to cure the elbow more effective. I wish that someday all kind of pain can be treated 100%. Wish that all doctors try to find cure and help more people in pain…
6:03 am
Think of a fit person who has undergone strengthening exercises. He will still do strenuous activities that can trigger tennis elbow. The difference is that their muscles and tendons are strong enough to support body movements and their body is healthy to heal faster. Improved strength leads to improved health.