New Year. New Resolutions. A good one is to exercise more. Exercise benefits young and old alike, boosting cognition, health, sleep quality, etc.. New Hampshire Spine and Sport has confidence that adding Southern New Hampshire exercise to your way of life is an advantageous behavior that enhances your life in due course. Let’s get moving!
EXERCISE MOTIVATORS
Culture can be encouraging of physical activity…or not. Researchers analyzed 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 reminding researchers and ultimately us clinicians to adapt exercise to the patient and his/her interests. (1) Share with New Hampshire Spine and Sport what motivates you! Simple? Fast? At-home? Out of the house? Maybe some mindfulness? To boost the exercise effort, adding mindfulness appears encouraging. Researchers found though that people have misconceptions or no concept of what mindfulness is or how it is valuable to mental and overall health. A recent study examined the effectiveness of physical activity and mindfulness activities in averting mental health issues and decided that it held promise. (2) New Hampshire Spine and Sport 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 investigates new drugs to enhance 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 valuable. (3) Important motivators can be healthy lifestyle behaviors mixed with chiropractic care. Treating and relieving chronic pain – associated with reduced brain gray matter and impaired cognitive function - was observed to bring back normal brain function. (4) That is what New Hampshire Spine and Sport 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 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 saw that behaviors like breakfast eating, exercise, and sleep patterns influenced their healthy lifestyle. Not having breakfast in the morning – 11% of kids in one study did this – was linked to sleep duration, bedtime, and physical activity. 9.5% of kids said they experienced poor sleep. 24.9% slept less than the suggested 9 hours. Girls were less physically active. Bad news: Such unhealthy habits impaired children’s hand-eye coordination and attention. Good] news: Better sleep quality bettered their reaction time in a visual attention test. (6) New Hampshire Spine and Sport is here to help you make better choices, temper expectations, and make beneficial healthy lifestyle goals.
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Schedule your Southern New Hampshire 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.