Groton 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, enhancing cognition, health, sleep quality, and more. Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office has confidence that adding Groton exercise to your daily life 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 a variety of motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is a result of self-determination, they detailed the mix 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 reminding researchers and ultimately us clinicians to tailor exercise to the patient and his/her interests. (1) Tell Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? At-gym? Maybe some mindfulness? To boost the exercise effort, adding mindfulness appears hopeful. Researchers found though that people have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is valuable to mental and overall health. One study looked at the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing mental health issues and concluded that it held promise. (2) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office appreciates those types of benefits!
BENEFITS FOR COGNITION, PAIN RELIEF WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
A pill maybe?! None of us would admit wanting to take a pill to be physically fit…or would we? No! As the pharmacological world investigates new drugs to improve cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also described nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even dancing – ballroom, aerobic and Latin - as being useful. (3) Important motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – related to reduced brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was found to restore normal brain function. (4) That is what Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office 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 lead a healthy lifestyle and participate in activities to support that lifestyle like exercising and eating well. Factors like personality and goal-setting habits were proposed as influencers. (5) Even in kids, researchers noted 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 associated with sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids said they experienced poor sleep. 24.9% did not sleep more than the suggested 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Bad news: Such less-than-healthy habits lessened children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality bettered their reaction time in a visual attention exam. (6) Shoreline Medical Services/ Hutter Chiropractic Office is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.
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Schedule your Groton chiropractic appointment today. A new year. A new resolution. Adding exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
