August 2023 No Fear— Aminos are Here! A significant fraction of individuals in the world of exercise partakes in essential amino acid (EAA) supplementation. These little building blocks of protein promote muscle performance, muscle recovery, and muscular gains. With this in mind, could EAA supplementation aid in recovery from a total knee replacement (TKR)? ARead More
Joint Replacement
Part 2: Osteoarthritis and Joint Replacement (from Medical Fitness Network)
This is a continuation of a blog posted Nov. 19, 2014 called The Pleasures and Pains of Knee Replacement Surgery and Rehab. It started with my personal story and continues into a discussion on the etiology of the disease, how it is treated, and the surgical option of joint replacement. It also includes the mainRead More
What I(rv) Learned This Summer, Parts I, II, III
What I Learned This Summer: On Fats and Fatness; The Joy of Joint Replacement; How To Recover From Surgery. Also, Rest In Peace, Ted Welch. fithappens.spring.2014
Can you run too much? can you exercise too much? can you ….. too much?
The world of fitness and exercise is full of mythologies, and this one keeps cropping up: you can run too much for good health. Ken Cooper, M.D., the father of aerobics, from Dallas, TX, said as much several years ago…when he stopped running so much, most likely because of the wear and tear it imposesRead More