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REAL News - November 20221Sep 01

September 1, 2021 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – September 2021

September 2021 Do Common Clinical Measurements Predict Running Injury? Runners suffer injuries at a pretty high rate – 20%-80% have an injury at any point in time. Since running puts ~2.8 x body weight on the landing leg with each step, it makes sense that variables such as muscle strength, size, alignment, range of motionRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: blood flow restriction, egg whites, kaatsu, knee arthritis, lean body mass, osteoarthritis, protein

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September 1, 2020 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – September 2020

   September 2020 Single- vs Multi-Joint Exercise: Order Matters In resistance training, exercises are divided into single-joint (SJ) and multi-joint movements (MJ). SJ are where only one joint moves, like the elbow during a curl, while MJ are those where 2 or more joints move, like a chin up. Both use the biceps but theRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: Alzhe, Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, exercise order, hypertrophy, long distance running, NSAIDs, osteoarthritis

Stem Cell Therapy: Road blocks and HighwaysFeb 10

February 10, 2019 By Irv Rubenstein

Stem Cell Therapy: Road blocks and Highways

Biologics are the up and coming therapies across many fields of medicine. For lack of better, more technical, definitions, let’s use the simple version of using our own bodies, or other parts of other bodies, to heal our own bodies. Since my main area of interest, and the reason you’re even reading this, is theRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: field of health or exercise science, musculoskeletal improvements, osteoarthritis, PRP, rotator cuff, stem cell therapy, stem cells

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June 1, 2018 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News June 2018

 June 2018 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Planks but Were Afraid to Ask A brief history of spine pain and therapy takes us through the 1950s when the abdominal curl/crunch was highly recommended by Drs. Kraus and Williams to help those with mechanical low back pain. Then in the 1970s, McKenzie came upRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: functional fitness, low back pain, muscle recovery, osteoarthritis, resistance training

REAL-News -- April-20231Jul 05

July 5, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

What You Need to Know About Bum Knees

If there’s one thing I know about the human body, it’s knees. Not that I’m an expert in knees but I have read a lot about, had a few surgeries for, and even replaced a knee . So when this article from the New York Times was brought to my attention, my ears and fingersRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: knee arthroplasty, knee replacement, Knees, meniscus, osteoarthritis

Mar 22, 2017

March 22, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Aquatics and Arthritis Don’t Mix

I thought that headline would get you. The story behind it, though, is quite encouraging. A Finish study followed several women with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee for 16 months – a long term study by comparison to most in the exercise world. It had some of the postmenopausal women do thrice weekly one-hour sessionsRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aquatics, arthritis, Exercise, Knees, osteoarthritis

REAL News - November 2018Mar 09

March 9, 2013 By Irv Rubenstein

In Praise of Diversity

In 1986, when I, as a PH.D. candidate nearly completing my studies, was considering career options, a colleague of mine, who eventually became my biz partner in this personal training endeavor (only to be bought out several years later), suggested I get into the new field of applied exercise science – which it was notRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: hypomomility, knee surgery, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis

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