New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is to exercise more. Exercise is beneficial for
young and old alike, enhancing cognition, health,
sleep quality, and more. Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center has
confidence that including Pensacola 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 various 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 reminding researchers and
ultimately us clinicians to tailor exercise to the
patient and his/her interests. (1) Tell
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center what motivates you! Simple?
Fast? At-home? At-gym? Maybe some mindfulness? To enrich
the exercise effort, adding mindfulness appears encouraging.
Researchers found though that many have misconceptions or no
concept of what mindfulness is or how it is helpful
to mental and overall health. One study examined the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in preventing
mental health issues and decided that it was promising. (2) Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center 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? 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 beneficial.
(3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle
behaviors combined with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving
chronic pain - associated with decreased
brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to
bring back normal brain function. (4) That is what Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
does: treat chronic pain with chiropractic care featuring
spinal manipulation.
OLDER FOLKS AND YOUNG KIDS
Curious researchers took on the question of
older adults’ goals, motivations, and self-determination motivators to lead
a healthy lifestyle and do things 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. Skipping 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
reported poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the suggested 9 hours. Girls
were not as physically active. Bad news: Such unhealthy
habits worsened children’s hand-eye coordination and
attention. Good] news: Better sleep quality bettered
their reaction time in a visual attention test. (6)
Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy
lifestyle goals.
CONTACT Pensacola Spinal Rehab Center
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Douglas Pettit on The Back Doctors Podcast with
Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes chiropractic care for back
pain due to a disc herniation with Cox® Technic on The Cox8 Table.
Make your Pensacola chiropractic
appointment soon. A new year. A new resolution. Including
exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your
health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.