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Chronic neck, back or shoulder pain affects an estimated 85 percent of adults in the U.S., is the most frequent cause of disability in people younger than 45 and costs more than $ 25 billion in direct medical care each year.

Physical and occupation therapy are important forms of treatment, yet once patients leave therapy there are few resources to help them maintain the results achieved. That is, until the introduction of Physical Therapy To Go, a set of medically produced videos that takes viewers through 30-40 minutes of exercise targeting the neck, back or shoulders.

“Too often I was seeing patients who had achieved relief in physical therapy only to be back in my office when their condition deteriorated because their only post-therapy resource was a list of exercises. Unfortunately, a piece of paper is inadequate to effectively guide patients in the ongoing exercises that are vital to remaining pain-free and functional,” said Sue Schler, M.D., an internist and creator of Physical Therapy To Go. “It became clear to me that a video with medically correct exercises they could follow at home would be beneficial not only for patients who have finished therapy, but for anyone suffering from chronic low-grade back, neck or shoulder pain.”

Physical Therapy To Go is a series of videos outlining physical and occupational therapy exercises for at-home use by those wishing to safely strengthen and harden the body for more strenuous exercise, as well as for those seeking sustained pain relief and better health. Available online at http://www.pttogo.com, each video targets a different region of the body and features:

Information on the neck, back or shoulders, how problems develop and how therapy helps

Instruction on the correct performance of a variety of daily activities to prevent injury

A complete, medically supervised physical therapy session guided by a professionally trained, licensed physical therapist and demonstrated by a model patient.

Instructions on modifying the exercise program based on the patient’s current condition to achieve the best results

“The exercise programs on PT To Go are safe and effective, and have been approved by hospital rehabilitation centers and rehab physicians,” says Schler. “They are ideal not only to alleviate chronic pain, but also to build bones in people who have or are at risk for osteoporosis. These exercises also help strengthen the body’s core and, when added to an aerobic fitness activity such as walking, create a complete exercise program.”

Physical Therapy To Go is available on VHS or DVD for $ 29.95 per video, or $ 79.95 for the set. To order or for more information, visit http://www.pttogo.com or call toll-free (877) PT TO GO1 (788-6461).

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This demand is the third among the list my clients ask for when they are attempting to lose weight or when they have dropped excess weight too rapidly. Their interest increases when the time to go sleeveless draws nearer. This short article provides tips for you to go sleeveless.

You should exercise to firm up those arm muscles. This needs to be obvious but some imagine that it can be gained without any physical exercise, or little exercise. Some even imagine that tightening arms may be accomplished with unrelated physical exercises like walking or treadmill. Which is simply not true.

But first things first.

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2- Understanding your triceps- Your tricep muscles shift your arm away from your forearm. When you push someone away from you, or push yourself off your bed, or off a chair, you’re using your triceps. The full range of motion for triceps begins with getting your hand towards your chest and ends when you’ve got your elbow totally straight. You can take triceps through the full range of motion in different ways, but the example above provides you with a pretty good idea.

3- Knowing arms limited range of flexion – In physical exercises like typical pushups and even chair dips, you simply bend your arm to a 90 degree angle or may be a little less. These kind of arm workouts do not take your triceps through a complete range of motion and it’s not their purpose to do it.

4- Recognizing compound exercises – Most of these exercises use 2 or more joints. As an example in a push up, you flex your elbow and you use your shoulder as well. Working with compound exercises have some of major rewards. A couple of them are increased calorie burn out through the exercise due to utilizing more muscle fibers plus developing much more muscle tissues to burn calories around the clock.

5- Understanding isolation exercises – These exercises include one joint. As an example, the biceps curl that involves your elbow only. The main advantage of this kind of exercise is your ability to isolate a certain muscle which may be the weak link in a series and build that muscle.

So how do you put all of this together?

Once you settle on a fat reducing diet plan, focus on compound exercises that concentrate on your triceps. A diamond pushup is great. Many women are not able to go through the complete range of motion with their pushups. They will lower their chest to midway next push back up or continue dropping their head and hips which usually only provides them the false impression of a pushup along with a bad back and painful neck. That’s where some sort of isolation exercise similar to seated dumbbell triceps extension comes into play.

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• Don’t do this on a hard floor, use a mat.
• Keep your head and trunk off the floor.
• Keep your hands by your head but do not hold your head or neck.
• Abdominal bicycles is a smooth continuous movement that mimics a bicycle ride and keeps a constant tension on the abs.

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Guys and gals. This is one of the best exercises for the abs. Just remember that looks can be deceiving so a few words to clarify may help.

• Start by lying on your back on a mat with your feet flat on the floor.
• Your knees at bent a about 90° angle.
• Hands about the head is not pressing your head or lifting your neck. As an alternative, you can place your palms on the floor by your hips.
• Lift your head and shoulders slightly off the ground.
• Slowly curl your pelvis toward your head.
• Do not use momentum, use abdominal strength to lift

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• Pull your rib cage toward your pelvis by contracting your abs. Notice that the body curls.
• Lower back is constantly pressed against the stability ball
• The motion is slow and deliberate and your abs are under constant tension

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This means they do not require exercises with a large range of motion. For example if you are doing a crunch, all you need to do is to lift your trunk about 30 degrees above the ground. Anything more, you are placing unnecessary and counterproductive pressure on your spine and your neck.