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Alphabetical index follows the introduction box below:

 

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How Readers Fixed Injuries Using These Methods:

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A

Abdominal Muscles - What Do They Have to Do With It All? - You May Be Surprised:

"Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that,
those who have the best stomachs, are not the best thinkers." - Voltaire

Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine - AFEM, Dr. Bookspan's Academy. Making Medicine and Exercise Healthy:

Academy Projects - Incredible Projects Readers Have Created:

Achilles Tendon:

ADD/ADHS:

Aerobic:

Fitness Fixer and DrBookspan.com are the *HOME* of Happy Mitochondria!

Aging - It's Not Aging that Causes Exercise Injury - Check Bad Biomechanics and Bad Stretching:

Healthy Aging:

Altitude, Aviation:

Ankle Sprains:

Anterior Cruciate Ligament:

Arches:

Arthritis:

"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis
and I don't deserve that either." - Jack Benny
Awards:

 

B

Back Pain - "Mystery" Lower Back Pain, SI Joint, Lordosis, Pain When Standing, Walking, Running Lifting Overhead:

Balance and Agility:

Biathlon/ Duathlon :

Biking:

Blood Pressure:

Bobsled/ Bobsleigh:

Books:

Breath-Hold Diving:

Breathing and Lung Function:

"I went to see Pavarotti once and I'll tell you this much, he doesn't
like it when you join in."

C

Cancer:

Celiac:

Children's Health - Good for your child, or family members who act like one:

"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice.
They just want quiet." - Bill Cosby

Cold Science and Thermal Medicine:

Colds and Flu:

"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
-- Jules Renard

Contests!:

Crunches - Never Need Them Again:

 

D

Depression:

Diabetes:

Digging/Shoveling Biomechanics:

Disability/Ability:

"Inexperience is not Inability"
- Ilya Kuriakan, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Discs/ Sciatica Can Heal:

Diving, Scuba and Decompression Medicine:

Drugs and Medicines:

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”                                                                                                        - Sir William Osler (Canadian physician 1849 – 1919)

E

Elbows:

Exercise Ball - how to get past the hype:

 

F

Fast Fitness - Want it fast? One change for the better - 1, 2, 3 - each Fast Friday:

Fibromyalgia:

Fitness as a Lifestyle - How to Get Real Life Functional Exercise:

Foot Drop:

Forensics! What Do Forensics Have to Do With Fixing Pain? Click to Find Out:

G

g-FORCE and ACCELERATION science:

Gardening:

"Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over
well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open." - Miss Manners

Green Fitness:

Groin Pulls:

"The only good thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."

 

H

Hall of Fame - Fitness Fixer readers using these methods for healthy happy life:

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life,
misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which
have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than
illustrious heroes.
-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer

Hamstrings - Why stretches more often cause back pain than fix it and what to do instead:

Headache, Dizziness:

Heartburn:

Heat Science and Medicine:

Hernia:

Hip Strength:

Hip STRETCH:

Holiday FItness - Lots of interesting things for many life events:

Hyperbarics

Hyperlordosis (SwayBack - Overarched Lower Spine). Why It Hurts and How to Use Neutral Spine In Real Life:

 

I

Iliotibial Band:

 

K

Knee Pain:


L

Lactic Acid :

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do
afterward. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Laugh:

Given a choice between two theories,
take the one which is funnier. - Blore's Razor

Leg Stretches :

Lordosis (normal small inward lower back curve) and hyperlordosis (the painful overarching that causes much mystery lower back pain):

Lunge:

 

M

Martial Arts - Healthier Training and Mindset:

"I prefer to speak at prisons,
because no one walks out in the middle of my speech."
- Archie Moore, former boxing champ

Massage:

Medicine - the Practice of Medicine:

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;
wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
- Elbert Hubbard

Meniscus (knee cartilage):

Menstruation:

Mental Fitness:

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist

Military Fitness:

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
- Groucho Marx

Mind:

"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma."
-- the Wizard of Oz

Movies and Media - Fitness in the Movies:

"Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica."
- Sir Thomas Beecham (celebrated British conductor)

Myths:

  • Sure are plenty of MYTHS in exercise and medicine. Click for all articles.

 

"Beware! And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place;
leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader
originally leaped there when a stick was held.
There's your law of precedents; there's your utility of traditions;
there's the story of your obstinate survival of old beliefs never bottomed on the earth,
and now not even hovering in the air! There's orthodoxy!"
-Herman Melville writing in Chapter 69 of Moby Dick;
through the eyes of Ishmael after the whale carcass has been set adrift.

 

N

Neck Pain:

Neutral Spine and Hyperlordosis. What are they? Why Do They Matter? How to Use Neutral Spine In Real Life:

Ninja:

Nutrition:

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner." - James Bovard

 

O

Olympics:

Orthotics - and shoe inserts:

Osteoporosis:

 

P

Paralympics:

Partner Exercise:

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that." - Tom Lehrer

Patellar Tracking:

Perceived Exertion:

Personal Responsibility:

"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle
that doesn't require my presence." - Garry Trudeau

Plantar Fasciitis:

Plyometrics:

Posture:

Pregnancy:

Pulmonary Edema/ Oedema:

 

Q

Quick FIx:

R

Repetitions of Exercises

Rowing

Running:

 

S

Sciatica

SCUBA:

Shoes:

Shoveling/Digging:

Shoulder Pain, Rotator Cuff Injury, Impingement:

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
- Steve Martin

Sitting:

Sleep:

Space Walks and Space Science:

Speed:

Spirit - Strengthen Spirit as Daily Mindset:

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

Sport Drinks and Fitness Water:

"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau

Sport Specific:

Squat:

Stomach Acid and Stomach Medicines:

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine
but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame,
in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." ~Thomas Edison

Stretches - Use These Four Every Day:

Stretches - Retrain Key Stretches:

Surgery:

Swimming:

T

Taxes:

Tests and Measurements:

Tightening and Clenching Muscles is Not Functional (how muscles really work in life) or Helpful to Exercise:

Toes & Feet:

V

Videos! Most Less Than a Minute Long. Learn Key Concepts and How to Apply Them:
This is a free "wiki" DVD project of many shorts. Readers and students contribute. Send in yours!

  • Click Video/movie for all videos - short visuals for stretches, strengthening, learning neutral spine, ankle rehab, more.

 

W

Weight Loss:

Y

Yoga, not Dogma:

Transfer yoga movement to daily life:
Make Yoga Poses Healthier:
Prevent Yoga Injuries:

Photo Credits for Wonderful Fitness Fixes at Top of This Page:

Bones on a Bike: Photo by MoToMo. Fitness Fixer story using this photo in A Reader Asks About Osteoporosis and Walking Lightly.
Astronaut Space Walk: Photo by TopTechWrite, Creative Commons. Fitness Fixer Story in Collapsing Astronaut Gives Healthy Reminder.
Sprained Ankle : Photo by Justinoberman. Story in How To Treat Ankle Sprains and Prevent Them.
Jumping for Joy: Photo by BingBing. Story in You Can Fix Your Own Knees.
Running Leg. Photo by wickye.
Parcours (Parkour) jump. Photo by Tatiana Sapateiro. Story in Parcours - Old Fun Is New Exercise.
Crutches in Trash: Photo of "milagro" (miracle) by Daquella manera. Story in Inspirational Ivy II - Beating Foot Drop and Sciatica, and Getting Healthier.

 



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