Vancouver 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, boosting cognition, health, sleep quality, and more. Vancouver Disc Centers has confidence that adding Vancouver exercise to your lifestyle is a positive behavior that ultimately enhances your life. Let’s get moving!
EXERCISE MOTIVATORS
Culture can be supportive of physical activity…or not. Researchers evaluated a variety of motivators for physical activity and exercise. Since being physically active is a result 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 telling researchers and ultimately us clinicians to tailor exercise to the patient and his/her interests. (1) Share with Vancouver Disc Centers what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? Out of the house? Maybe some mindfulness? To enhance the exercise effort, adding mindfulness appears promising. Researchers found though that people have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is beneficial 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 was promising. (2) Vancouver Disc Centers appreciates those types 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? Of course not! As the pharmacological world looks for drugs to enhance cognitive function in the aging folks, researchers have also reported on nutrition, diet, probiotics, cognitive training, and physical activity, exercise, even Latin, ballroom, and aerobic dancing as being beneficial. (3) Major motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors combined with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – linked to decreased brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to bring back normal brain function. (4) That’s what Vancouver Disc Centers 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 do things to support that lifestyle like exercise and eating well. Factors like personality and goal-setting habits were suggested influencers. (5) Even in kids, researchers noted that behaviors like breakfast eating, exercise, and sleep patterns affected their healthy lifestyle. Not having breakfast in the morning – 11% of kids in one 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 recommended 9 hours. Girls were not as physically active. Sad news: Such less-than-healthy habits worsened children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Positive] news: Better sleep quality enhanced reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) Vancouver Disc Centers is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Douglas Pettit on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he shares chiropractic care for back pain due to a disc herniation with Cox® Technic on The Cox8 Table.
Schedule your Vancouver chiropractic appointment today. A new year. A new resolution. Including exercise as a new, healthy behavior will likely enhance your health, sleep quality, cognition, and more.
