Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much, a recent New York Times article by Benedict Carey, encourages more fist bumps, shoulder pats, hugs, and high fives. So do we!
Finer Things for Her is having a Swim and Fit Event from 25-27 February. Swim trunk show, bra specials, giveaways & a special reception until 7pm Thursday evening.
Remember that a proper-fitting brassiere should allow you to easily slip two fingers under the band and under the straps. Call 423.343.9043 to schedule your fitting appointment. Tell them that Amber sent ya!
After a year, women who did a twice weekly workout while wearing a compression garment had less arm pain and swelling, a condition known as lymphedema.
“Weight lifting reduced the number and severity of arm and hand symptoms, increased muscular strength and reduced the incidence of lymphedema,” a team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read more at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57B5RE20090812.
See the video at http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=04fb8dfd-11ac-413d-88ad-efb130f93ebd.html
U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn is glad to be back on the snow and credits lymphatic drainage massage with assisting in her recovery. On February 2nd, she experienced “an excruciatingly painful deep tissue bruise on her right shin in a slalom training crash.”
Lymphatic Drainage can be wonderful for all deep bruises and sprains, as it directly affects the lymphatic system to decrease swelling and inflammation.
Sometimes it seems to work too well. It can take away the pain way too fast! (I have to remind people that just because their ankles don’t hurt doesn’t mean that they can go right back out running or dancing or skiing. The body still needs rest to allow time to for the body to fully heal. . . .)
We hope that Lindsey will be able to recover fully and compete in this year’s Olympics without further injury. Good luck, Lindsey!
Read more at USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/vancouver/alpine/2010-02-11-lindsey-vonn-cover_N.htm.
Last month, we ran across an article in the Journal of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s December issue. Researchers at the University of Virginia, led by Dr. D. Casey Kerrigan, measured the forces (“torque”) exerted when running in standard running shoes and found those forces were 54 per cent greater at the hip, 36 per cent higher at the knee and 38 per cent higher at the ankle than when running barefoot.
The large increase in torque in areas of the knee where osteoarthritis develops “was surprising, [Kerrigan] said, because it was greater than the increase in knee torque she had observed for women wearing high heels, which was only 20 percent to 26 percent.”
Read an article in LiveScience that reports on this study.
http://www.livescience.com/health/running-shoes-joint-strain-injury-100112.html
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The best running shoe may be none at all, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday
Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:51pm EST
Jamaica's Andrew Gutzmores competes without shoes at the men's 5000 meters final race during the Jamaicam athletics national championship in Kingston June 27, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria
Runners who eschew shoes may be less likely to do serious injury to their feet, because they hold their feet differently, Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and colleagues found.
Writing in the journal Nature, they said runners who wear shoes tend to hit the ground with their heels first, whereas barefoot runners put the balls of the feet down first.
“People who don’t wear shoes when they run have an astonishingly different strike,” Lieberman said in a statement.
“By landing on the middle or front of the foot, barefoot runners have almost no impact collision, much less than most shod runners generate when they heel-strike,” Lieberman added.
“Most people today think barefoot running is dangerous and hurts, but actually you can run barefoot on the world’s hardest surfaces without the slightest discomfort and pain. All you need is a few calluses to avoid roughing up the skin of the foot.”
5 Tips For The Correction Of Forward Head Posture:
By Sam Visnic
Forward head posture is a very common imbalance seen today. Correction of forward head posture takes awareness, resolution of underlying causes, and repetition to make a lasting impact. These five tips will help you get faster results.
While it may seem a bit far-fetched to speak of ladies’ undergarments being out to kill us, it makes perfect sense that brassieres could at the very least increase our risk of breast cancer. A few days ago, I ran across an interesting article on this very subject whilst updating myself on world news.
Most of the women with whom I work wear bras that are WAY too tight. This constricts lymphatic flow, making it extremely difficult for the body to cleanse the area of toxins (including carcinogenic chemicals). These toxins build up and form lumps, cysts - even cancerous cells and tumors. From a lymphologist’s standpoint, anything that binds too tightly (especially in bands - like bra straps, bra bands, underwear elastics, tight belts, etc.) can be a serious obstruction to proper lymphatic flow.
The research cited goes on to say that locally increased temperature may alter hormone production, thereby increasing the risk of breast cancer. Melatonin production also seems to decrease the more a woman wears a bra. Melatonin has powerful antioxidant qualities and has been shown to decrease the rate of breast cancer growth.
Please take a few minutes to read the linked article. More research needs to be done, but the numbers are nothing short of shocking. Of the 4700+ women involved in the study:
Please take this into consideration. If you are going to wear a bra (and most of us women will, nonetheless), it is important to take some precautions. A well-fitting healthy bra should be slightly loose. . . . You should easily be able to slip two fingers under the shoulder straps and under the band at the rib cage. Also, be sure to massage your breasts after removing your bra. This will help stimulate the lymphatics to do their job and take care of you!
Read the BiomedME’s article at http://biomedme.com/general/could-bras-be-the-missing-link-to-breast-cancer_5766.html.