The Fitness Fixer™

Almost 800 Articles on Healthier Fitness
by Dr. Bookspan

 

When Fitness and Medicine Aren't Healthy, We Fix It (and boy do they need it)

 

Finalist

Best Medical Blog and Best Clinical Sciences Blog

 

 

 

How To Use This Index:

1. Hello! I am The Fitness Fixer™ - Dr. Jolie Bookspan - Making Medicine and Fitness Healthy. This page is one page on my large no-ad website DrBookspan, free to all for a better world. The introduction box below tells a bit of all that my readers and I accomplished in the years that I ran my column The Fitness Fixer. Following the introduction box is an alphabetical index of some of the nearly 800 original Fitness Fixer™ articles.

2. My Fitness Fixer column ran from 2006 to 2010 on Healthline.com. When the host company Healthline ended all their blog columns, they removed my articles and replaced them with their own articles that sell products. They left the original links to my articles which now may direct to their site and their articles, not mine. I found two sites that have some of my Fitness Fixer articles archived:

Blogspot, which was the upload engine for articles, still has some articles. I have been finding the links and putting them on this page. Healthline removed most of my images and movies. Not all the articles appear as intended, and links to other Fitness Fixers seem to go back to non-working Healthline pages or their own articles.

"The WayBack Machine" is an Internet project (web.archive.org) that takes snapshots of Internet pages to archive for posterity. Some of my original articles are there, some even in original format. Some links to my other Fitness Fixers articles on the Wayback site seem to work, along with the "labels" feature. Note that Wayback links to my web site here will go to out-of-date archived pages. For my web site, go directly to DrBookspan.com and DrBookspan.Neocities.org.

Healthline's site may still have a few of my articles, but cut them in half, removed my photos, movies, and all the reader questions with my answers, and in many cases, replaced my work with their own content. If you find any of my Fitness Fixers on that site, understand that they are not as intended or may not even be my articles.

 

3. Beside the Blogspot and Wayback links, I left years of posts on Twitter including Friday Fast Fitness @TheFitnessFixer when I stopped posting there. If you don't have a Twitter account, a message appears that I have not posted but there were over 5000 posts/tweets. At the time of this writing, you can see them without a twitter account at https://xcancel.com/thefitnessfixer.

 

4. Hope you will also enjoy my large free no-ad web site DrBookspan, (DrBookspan.com and DrBookspan.Neocities.org) come to classes, and get the books.


 

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About The Fitness Fixer

  • My methods fix injuries and training. Harvard School of Medicine clinicians named me The St. Jude of the Joints." 

  • The first article from August 2006 - Welcome to the Fitness Fixer - explained why not all exercise is healthy and how to change that.

  • Here is my last article four years later. Healthline took this off their site but it remains archived on Blogspot - Where To Continue With Fitness Fixer:

 

Only Available Here

 

Top Training Methods

  • For exercisers, trainers, beginners to top athletes, and their health care providers.

 

Fix Fitness, Stop Pain

  • This is the place to stop pain and get your life back. I don't "limit the patient to limit the pain." Instead of restricting activities, I pioneered integrating healthy movement into actual real life and sports - "functional" exercise and medicine. You do more while getting stronger, healthier, and stopping pain at the same time.

 

Green Fitness

  • Burn calories not coal! Why burn fuels to power artificial exercise machines?

  • We burn human calories to make electricity. Human powered calorie burning, green power generation, litter cleanup using healthy bending mechanics, community projects, more. See fun, clean, world-healthy projects here.

 

Flash Mobs

  • Use these Fitness Fixers in my exciting program of #FlashFitness for healthy alternatives for your Flash Mobs. Prizes for healthy creativity.

 

Fast Fitness Friday

  • Weekly feature most Fridays. Quick effective techniques to put immediately into practice, "one, two, three."

 

Contests

  • Demonstrate your skills, your knowledge, and how well you pay attention. Prizes too.

 

Fitness Fixer™ Hall of Fame. Readers send their success stories Fixing Injuries and Top Training using my work. Come be one

  • Reader Hall Of Fame 2007-2008

  • Reader Hall Of Fame 2009

  • Reader Hall Of Fame 2010

  • How To Send Your Own Story

  • Healthline took these all off their site. See them on my Patient Stories page.

 

Forensics, Training and Survival from Mountaintop to Undersea, Heat and Cold. G-forces and Microgravity

  • My research in environmental physiology, forensic, work, and fun adventures.

Brain and Body

  • Mind health, emotional health.

  • Strengthening the discipline, cooperation, and respect that improve personal and community health.

  • Fix Myths, Fads, and Urban Legends. Get real information and understand issues to make informed decisions.

Laughing is Healthy

  • We'll fix your injuries or double your pain back.

  • Send in your funny fitness health photos and stories. Prizes for smart fun.

  • Reader PaulJ contributed articles so funny true and good that I appointed him my Academy Director of Silly Syndromes.

 

Make Health Care Healthy

  • Not all exercise is good medicine. Not all medicine is healthy. We fix that.

Real Life - Functional - Lifestyle

  • We make daily life into built-in health and medicine.

  • If the only way to "go do exercise" is to stop your regular life, how can that be exercise as a lifestyle?

  • Building healthy biomechanics into regular dally actions builds strength, calorie burning, and joint stabilization into real life.

  • Using healthy body mechanics to do things that benefit others makes daily life into built-in physical, emotional, social, and environmental health.

 

Bookspan Basics™

  • I designed quick group skills that put health back into basic human movement.

  • You can learn and teach them to your groups, kids, teams, classes, & battalions.

  • Also good for teaching exercise in the park, and adding to your existing exercise classes.

  • See them on this web site on Bookspan Basics.

 

Join Research Studies

  • Students of exercise and medical sciences, researchers, smarties, get ideas here then contact me for interesting beneficial studies you can do for school.

 

I Don't Repeat News, My Readers and I Make News

  • My Academy teaches healthy sports medicine, and provides classes and instructor training, community health programs, more. Our Academy Awards reward world health initiatives. Formally, we are the Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine - AFEM. Informally, we call it the Fixa U™.

  • Readers created such far-reaching projects from my work that I awarded them positions as project directors of my Academy.

  • Peggy Santamaria taught healthy movement for paid job positions for developmentally disabled adults. She was our Director of Developmental Abilities.

  • Stuart Wood taught healthy digging methods for a water reharvesting program, and an after-school program for kids that teaches healthy movement is fun. I appointed Stuart as my Director of Community Projects.

  • I was working with mathematicians to make programs that teach understanding and applying basic MATHS skills to daily life for health.

  • I am developing more innovative group health programs. See and be part of these projects and more on my Academy Honors page.

 

Fitness Fixer Reality Show

  • A former project was for people who use my work for their own health, to take these innovative methods to families and communities.

  • Film short structured clips of yourself doing simple sincere makeovers like a traveling knight. Examples: Retrain healthy movement and integrate strength health and weight control into people's daily work and home lives, school programs, teaching digging mechanics at community gardens, municipal water reclamation projects, for day laborers, office workers, and others.

  • Heal the world one makeover at a time through good work like the Lone Ranger, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, The Dog Whisperer, The Nanny, Weed Dating (social networking through group gardening events) and Pay it Forward wrapped up in one.

  • Intelligent caring real life is more fitness than yelling while heavy people trudge with bad mechanics on treadmills for TV entertainment.

  • Instructions to send videos and success stories is on the Projects Page here on my web site.

 

 

Copyright and Reprint

 

 

 

 

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

Healthline replaced this article and the other ab articles above with their own. Best is to find this info on my web page on this site.

Here is the BLOGSPOT archive to several of the above on abdominal muscles: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/abdominal%20muscles

Here is a WAYBACK link. Many photos and articles missing:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100612054016/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/abdominal%20muscles.html

 

"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 for People and Communities™:

Healthline removed the above articles. Find more about the Academy directly on my Academy page here on this web site (http://www.drbookspan.com/Academy).

Some early articles on archiving sites may mention early attempts to develop people as branch instructors. The Academy does not have or endorse any remote locations. The following great people below did make excellent programs as Project Directors, that are role models.

 

Academy Projects - Incredible Projects Readers Have Created:

These Fitness Fixer articles were removed by Healthline. To see this work, click my Academy Programs page.

 

Achilles Tendon:

Looks like Healthline took away the above Achilles articles, and redirected the links to their own articles selling therapy products. I found the Blogspot Archive that groups my Achilles articles together, many with the original photos, comments, labels and movies:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/achilles%20stretch

 

ADD/ADHS:

Looks like Healthline took away this article. See it and more on my Spirit and Emotional Fitness page here on my web site.

 

Aerobic:

Healthline has removed the above articles. Find some of them here on the BlogSpot Archive for my Fitness Fixer aerobic articles:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/aerobic

Here is the WAYBACK archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100524032143/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/aerobic.html

 

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

 

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

Healthline has removed my articles on healthy aging, above. Find some of them on my Fitness Fixer BlogSpot archive Aging category here:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/aging

Here is the WAYBACK archive on some of my articles on healthy aging: http://web.archive.org/web/20100629010912/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/aging.html

 

Healthy Aging:

My articles on healthy aging on Healthline's site, above, are no longer there. Find some of them on my Fitness Fixer BlogSpot archive aging category here: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/aging

 

Altitude, Aviation Aerospace:

The articles above on aviation and aerospace on Healthline's site are no longer there. Find some of them on my Fitness Fixer BlogSpot archive aerospace category here: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/aerospace

You can also use the this page that combines articles with my BlogSpot label tag for "altitude" - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/altitude

Here is the WAYBACK archive for AEROSPACE articles: http://web.archive.org/web/20100703072547/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/aerospace.html

WAYBACK archive for ALTITUDE: http://web.archive.org/web/20100703072954/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/altitude.html

 

Ankle Sprains:

Healthline removed all my ankle articles above in favor of selling their gadgets and equipment. Here are some of my ankle articles on the BlogSpot Archive showing how you can fix your ankles without all that: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/ankle

Also use this BlogSpot page combining articles with the label for Hyperbarics - with articles on why it does not help sprains and injuries: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/hyperbaric

 

Anterior Cruciate Ligament:

Healthline removed my articles with substantiating literature and studies that specific surgeries are no more effective than not getting the surgery. See my BlogSpot archive on articles about documenting outcomes of surgery: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/surgery

 

Arches:

Healthline removed my articles about arches. See my BlogSpot archive: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/arches

 

Arthritis:

The Healthline Company removed my articles on arthritis above, and replaced them with their own. I have found my Fitness Fixer archive on the uploader that I used called BlogSpot, that for now allows my label tags to work and even shows some photos. Let me know if this still works: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/arthritis

 

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

 

Awards:

We got some awards! The stories that were linked to the articles above are gone. Hopefully the Good Work remains, whether people remember or not.

 

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

Healthline removed all of these. Best is to find this info on my web page about This Kind Of Mystery Back Pain on this site.

Balance and Agility:

Healthline removed all of these too. I put some quick good Balance methods on my page for Fitness as a Lifestyle. Come to my Classes for the rest.

 

Biathlon/ Duathlon:

BlogSpot Archive for Biathlon Duathlon and Triathlon is here.(Hopefully).

 

Biking:

Healthline removed my articles on biking. Here is the BlogSpot Archive with some of them - Biking.

WAYBACK archive of my articles on biking health: http://web.archive.org/web/20100703065841/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/biking.html

 

Blood Pressure:

 

Bobsled/ Bobsleigh:

This was a fun one. We took a wild high-G ride on a real one at an Olympic Track. Stories here. Scroll down to the bobsleigh story.

 

Books:

 

Bookspan Basics - Good body mechanics are a powerful performance enhancing aid:

My web page on this site with all Bookspan Basics - group training drills

 

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
- Mother Teresa

 

Breath-Hold Diving  (see more in the separate topics of Breathing, Hyperbaric Medicine, SCUBA, and Space Medicine, further below:

Many of my original articles about SCUBA were removed by Healthline on their site. They (hopefully) remain on the Blogspot archive with some photos, labels, and comments intact - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/scuba

 

Breathing and Lung Function:

The above articles on breathing, that I posted on Healthline, have been removed. Try my BlogSpot Archive, which can group my articles by topic: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/breathing

WAYBACK archive on breathing articles: http://web.archive.org/web/20100919080118/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/breathing.html

 

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

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Cancer:

Try the BlogSpot archive with my Fitness Fixers on cancer here.

 

Celiac:

Healthline removed my article on celiac. It may still be available, along with other of my articles on celiac on the BlogSpot Archive here - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/celiac

They removed this one too. Use the BlogSpot archives about various drugs: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/drugs

 

Chest Stretch - Restore muscle length to stand without round shoulders:

Two of these are on my Fixing Neck and Upper Body Pain page. Come to my class for more.

 

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

Healthline removed these also. Here is a BlogSpot archive for at least a few of my Fitness Fixers, grouped by the label Children.

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

 

Christmas Fitness - Staying healthy and sane:

Here is the BlogSpot archive of some my Fitness Fixers grouped by the label Holiday.

 

Cleaning Products - Make your own healthy items quickly, cheaply, easily:

 

Cold Science and Thermal Medicine:

The above articles are no longer on Healthline. Use this Blogspot Archive that groups most of my Fitness Fixers by the topic of Cold, many with the original photos, comments, labels and movies - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/cold

Also try this BlogSpot archive for my Fitness Fixer articles on the topic of Swimming: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/swimming

 

Colds and Flu:

This BlogSpot archive gives you some of the Sinus, Colds, Flu, and infection articles together on one page. Let me know if this links works: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/colds%2Fflu%2Finfectious

WAYBACK archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20110707210054/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/colds__flu__infectious.html

 

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

Contests !    Win Prizes Have Fun:

 

Crunches - Never Need Them Again:

Healthline removed these also, in order to sell their ab products. See how to get built-in daily function using abdominal muscles the way they really work on my web page explaining Abs and What They Do and Don't Have To Do With Back Pain.

 

D

Decompression Sickness - see Hyperbaric Medicine, further below

 

Depression:

Healthline removed these. I have articles on this topic on my web page Spirit and Emotional Fitness Training.

 

Diabetes:

Healthline removed these also. Here is a BlogSpot archive for at least a few of my Fitness Fixers, grouped by the label Diabetes.

Diastesis Recti:

 

Digging/Shoveling Biomechanics:

 

Disability/Ability:

Healthline removed these wonderful stories. I put their stories on my web page for Fitness as a (Real) Lifestyle.

 

"Inexperience is not Inability"
- Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum), The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
(when I was a kid I wanted to be like Illya Kuryakin)

Discs/ Sciatica Can Heal:

Healthline removed my articles with substantiating literature and studies that specific surgeries for back pain and disc are no more effective than skipping the surgery. See my BlogSpot archive on articles about documenting outcomes of surgery: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/surgery

Here is the BlogSpot archive of some of my Fitness Fixers grouped by the label Disc.

WAYBACK archive of my some of my articles about fixing discs: http://web.archive.org/web/20101121112942/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/disc.html

 

Diving, Scuba, and Hyperbaric (Decompression) Medicine:

 

Drugs and Medicines:

Healthline removed these. Here is the BlogSpot archive with some of my articles grouped together on the topic of Drugs:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/drugs

 

"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:

Healthline removed this one. Here is the BlogSpot archive with some of my articles grouped together on the topic of Elbows

 

Exercise Ball - How to get past the hype:

Here is the BlogSpot archive with most of the exercise ball (and Kettlebell) articles on one page and some of the photos. Try this and let me know if it works: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/exercise%20ball

Here is the WAYBACK archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20100702053334/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/exercise%20ball.html

 

Extension Exercise and Supermans - Prone Extension Exercise Debate:

 

Extreme Sports Extreme Survival

 

F

Facets, Facet Joints and Facet Pain

Here is the BlogSpot archive that, for now, allows my label to work and sometimes shows some photos. Let me know if this still works:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/facet%20joints

WAYBACK archive of some of my articles about the spine joints called facets: http://web.archive.org/web/20091110201019/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/labels/facet%20joints.html

 

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

Every Friday for four years, I brought you Fast Friday Fitness. A fun short article of fast, effective, sports medicine techniques to try in three steps - 1, 2, 3.

There were hundreds over 4 years. Here is the BlogSpot archive of some of them:

http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/fast%20fitness. Come to my classes to learn more.

 

Feet:

 

Fibromyalgia:

Healthline removed these. Here is the BlogSpot archive with some of my articles grouped together on the topic of Fibromyalgia.

 

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

These were some lovely stories of real life health with several featured readers. See the concepts on my web page Fitness as a (Real) Lifestyle.

 

Food and Recipes:

Healthline took these all down. Here is a link for a few of these articles on one page with photos and some of the original content intact on the BlogSpot archive for The Fitness Fixer topic of "Nutrition"

More on this topic is on my web page for Healthier Nutrition.

 

Foot Drop:

 

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

Healthline removed these. Here is the BlogSpot archive with some of my articles grouped together on the topic of Forensics.

"Never argue with 7 men when all you've packing is a 6 gun "
- Col Sherman Potter, 4077 MASH

Functional Exercise and Medicine:

Healthline took down these Fitness Fixer articles. My "Bookspan Basics" teach functional body mechanics - a powerful performance enhancing aid: Bookspan Basics - Group Training Drills. You can also check my web page for Fitness as a (Real) Lifestyle.

 

G

g-FORCE and ACCELERATION science:

Healthline's site took down these fun articles. Find some of them on my Fitness Fixer BlogSpot archive category for Aerospace: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/aerospace

You can also use the this page that combines articles with my BlogSpot label tag for "altitude" - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/altitude

 

"You can't keep a good scientist down"
- Doc Emmett Brown, scientist in the movie 'Back To The Future'

Gardening:

Healthline's site removed these articles. A link for several of these articles on one page is on the BlogSpot Archive for The Fitness Fixer topic of "Gardening"

 

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

 

Gluteal Muscles:

The Healthline company removed the comments. Comments were great and polite questions from readers and included my many replies. Then they removed the articles.

 

Golf and Lower Back Pain:

Healthline's site removed these articles. Hopefully you can find all three golf articles together on the BlogSpot archive for The Fitness Fixer articles for GOLF

Green Fitness:

"The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
- Ed Murrow

Grip Strength:

 

Groin Pulls:

 

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

 

Group Fitness

 

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

Healthline took down my Reader Success articles. Check my Patient Stories on my web site for some of them.

 

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

 

Halloween Fitness - Healthier tricking and treating:

 

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

I found this one on The WayBack Machine. Use this link and let me know if it doesn't work: http://web.archive.org/web/20081016090343/http://www.healthline.com:80/blogs/exercise_fitness/2006/09/sitting-badly-isnt-magically-healthy.html

Healthline took down my Fitness Fixer articles on hamstrings. Check my Hamstrings web page for the interesting story of your Hamstrings.

 

Handstands - Why they're great, easier to do than you think, helpful for fitness, and fun:

Healthline took down my Fitness Fixer articles on how to do handstands, along with all the movies I made, and reader success photos of trying it. Check my Fitness as a LIfestyle web page for how to do hanstands and what handstands can do for you.

 

Headache, Dizziness. Migraine:

Healthline removed my Fitness Fixers on headache. Let me know if the following BlogSpot label link is working. It should group several Fitness Fixer articles together that were about Headache: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/headache%2Fmigraine

 

Heartburn:

Healthline removed both of these too. Use the BlogSpot archive of Fitness Fixers about various drugs: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/drugs

 

Heart Rate and Exercise Level:

 

Heat Science and Medicine:

Healthline removed these. Here is the BlogSpot archive with some of my articles grouped together on the topic of Heat.

 

Hernia:

 

Hip Fracture:

They removed this one too. Use the BlogSpot archives about various drugs: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/drugs

More in Osteoporosis, below.

 

Hip Strength:

 

Hip STRETCH:

 

Hockey:

 

Holiday Fitness - Fun healthier holidays and life events:

 

Hyperbaric and Decompression Medicine  (see more under the separate topics of Breath-Hold Diving above, plus SCUBA, and Space Medicine, further below)

Healthline removed these articles. Use the Blogspot page combining articles with the label (tag) for Hyperbarics: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/hyperbaric

Here is the Blogspot archive for Fitness Fixer articles on scuba - http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/scuba

 

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

Here is the Blogspot archive, that for now, allows my label tags to work. Let me know if this still works to see Fitness Fixers on hyperlordosis: http://healthlinefitnessfixer.blogspot.com/search/label/lordosis

Healthline replaced the above articles with their own. Best is to find this info on my web page on this site.

 

"The men the public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
- HL Mencken

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Iliotibial Band:

 

Independence Day - 4th of July in the US:

 

Inversion Tables

 

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Kidney Health:

 

Knee Pain and Knee Health:


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Labor Day:

 

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 :

 

Levator Scapulae, Trapezius, Neck/Top of Shoulder Stretch:

 

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

 

Lung Function and Breathing

 

Lunge:

 

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Martial Arts - Healthier Training and Mind Set:

 

"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

 

Metabolism - now and throughout aging:

 

Military Fitness:

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

Military Press:

 

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 and Television:

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

 

My Fitness Fixer MOVIES on FLICKR

 

Myths - Sure are plenty of MYTHS in exercise and medicine:

 

"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:

 

Neti Pots:

 

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

 

New Year Celebration Fitness - Health for many cultures and traditions:

 

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
~George Burns

 

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 - Don't leave your loved one to exercise, lift your loved one.

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

Patellar Tracking:

 

Pectoral (Chest Stretch) - Restore muscle length to stand without round shoulders:

 

Perceived Exertion:

 

Performance Enhancement and Enhancing Modalities:

 

Personal Responsibility:

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

 

Personal Training - Functional body mechanics area powerful performance enhancing aid. These should be the basics you teach clients, patients, and students FIRST to use for all healthy movement to follow:

 

Pilates - see Yoga, below.

 

Planks and Pushups:

 

Plantar Fasciitis:

 

Plyometrics:

 

Posture:

 

Practice of Medicine - See Medicine, above

 

Pregnancy:

 

Pulmonary Edema/ Oedema:

 

Q

Quick FIx:

 

R

Recipes:

 

Reciprocal Inhibition:

 

Reflux and Stomach Acid Medicines:

 

Repetitions of Exercises

 

Respiratory Function - see the topic of Breathing and Lung Function, further above

 

Rowing

 

Running:

"Tell the truth and run"
- Proverb

S

Scapula

 

Sciatica

 

Scoliosis

 

SCUBA   (see more under the separate topics of Breath-Hold Diving, and Hyperbaric Medicine further above, and Space Walks and Space Science, below):

 

Sedentary Lifestyle

 

Shoes:

 

Shoveling/Digging:

 

Shoulder Pain, Rotator Cuff Injury, Impingement:

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

 

Sinus and Head Colds:

 

Sitting:

 

Skin Products:

 

Sleep:

 

Sleep, Fixing Uncomfortable Sleeping Positions - Reader comments on my articles, and my replies that address fixing uncomfortable sleep positions were removed by Healthline. Comments questions from readers were great and polite and included my many replies.You may be able to find them in individual blogspot archives (or from me directly):

 

Space Walks and Space Science  (see more in the topics of Breath-Hold Diving above, Hyperbaric Medicine, and SCUBA, above):

 

Speed:

"If everything is under control, you are going too slow."
- Mario Andretti (world champion racing driver)

Spirit - Strengthen Spirit as Daily Mind Set:

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

Spondylolisthesis

 

Sport Drinks and Fitness Water:

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

 

Sport Specific:

 

Standing - Pain With Standing for Long Periods

 

Squat:

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
-- General George S. Patton

 

Stomach Acid, Reflux, 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:

 

Stretching Smarter:

 

Stretching Tests:

 

Surgery:

 

Swimming   (see more in separate topics of Breath-Hold Diving, and Breathing and Lung Function, above:

Supermans - Prone Extension Exercise Debate:

 

T

Taxes:

 

Tea:

 

Tests and Measurements:

 

Tightening Muscles is Not Functional or Helpful to Exercise:

 

Thai Massage:

 

Thanksgiving Fitness -  Food, Preparations, Sharing Thanks:

 

Toes & Feet:

 

Transversus Abdominal Muscles, Using an "Abdominal hollow" not Healthy Or Necessary:

 

Trapezius, Levator Scapulae and other Neck/Top of Shoulder Stretch:

 

Travel Medicine:

 

Triathlon - also see Biathlon/ Duathlon, above:

 

U

Upper Back Pain and Ergonomics

V

Vegetarian and Vegan:

 

Videos!    Most Less Than a Minute Long. Learn Key Concepts and How to Apply Them:
Short visuals for stretches, strengthening, learning neutral spine, ankle rehab, more. This was a free "wiki" DVD project of many shorts. I previously had several dozens of movie in my Fitness Fixer articles on Healthline.

 

W

Walking:

 

Warm Up:

 

Weight Lifting:

 

Weight Loss:

Marty McFly: "Whoa, this is heavy."
Dr. Emmett Brown: "There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future?
Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?"
- Movie, Back to the Future

Wilderness Medicine:

"Utility is when you have one telephone; luxury is when you have two
and paradise is when you have none."

 

Work of Breathing:

 

Y

Yoga, not Dogma:

  • Not all moves are needed all the time - Getting the Right Yoga Medicine
  • Focus doesn't mean staring at a candle - Which Ancient Exercise Gives Focus and Concentration?
  • Air Pushups - Does yoga give you peace and love? Air Pushups - this article was a fun one showing how to do pushups while holding both feet off the floor with your own muscle power, and how the yoga students whined about having to make an effort. Healthline removed it. It may be somewhere on the Blogspot Fitness Fixer archive.

 

"Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency"
~ Lewis Perlman

 

Yoga - Transfer healthy movement to daily life:

  • Change overarched (hyperlordotic) lower spine to neutral - Neutral Spine in 5 Seconds.
  • Don't overarch the lower back when doing Utkatasana or mighty pose (chair pose) - Get Better Exercise From Your Chair
  • Sit and rise without your hands - Description - Quick and Easy Strength and Balance Exercise and movie - Fast Fitness - Functional Agility, Flexibility, Strength (Healthline company removed all my movies since they discontinued my Fitness Fixer column in early 2010 - See note on the VIDEO topic above)
  • One legged balance stance with crossed leg. I called it "putting on shoe" - Here was a post - Ancient Shoe Exercise for Hip Stretch and Balance and was is a video - Fast Fitness - Balance, Strength, Stretch, and Socks
  • Instead of artificial, over-stylized chair pose, use simple half-squat for functional daily lifestyle action to strengthen legs, stretch achilles tendon, and avoid bad forward bending that degenerates lumbar discs - Free Exercise and Free Back and Knee Pain Prevention (now removed from Healthline's site) and How Often Should You Be Healthy?
  • Nice toe stretches when sitting in Seiza (a sitting kneel for martial arts, yoga, and meditation) - Healthy Toe Stretches
  • Healthline removed all these Fitness Fixers on Yoga. Use my Healthier Smarter Yoga page instead.
Yoga - Make Poses Healthier:
  • Warrior 3 or Virabhadrasana III - Stand on one foot, stretch arms forward and one leg lifted back - Fast Fitness - Stronger, Straighter Upper Back
  • Plank, Chaturanga Pose, 4 Legged Staff Pose - holding a pushup position - Fast Fitness - Strengthen by Changing Your Plank and Abdominal Muscle Exercise - Better, Different, Not What You Think
  • Start with an easy Handstand or Adho Mukha Vrksasana (means Downward Facing Tree Pose)
    Description - Quick and Fun Arm and Body Strengthener
    Movie - Fast Fitness - Easy Handstand for Balance, Upper Body Strength -The Movie
    Then add ekapada, or one leg stretch Leg Stretch that Strengthens Arms
  • Healthline removed all these Fitness Fixers on Yoga. Use my Healthier Smarter Yoga page instead.

 

 

Prevent Yoga Injuries:

 

 

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Photo Credits for Photos in the Index Title Bar

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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