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Getting Rid of Muscle Knots

After a long day of work or exercise, we have all encountered feeling tension around our shoulders or found the pain coming from a particular ‘lump’ in the muscle.  These lumps, known as muscle knots, are a result of entangled muscle fibers that are bunched together and unable to relax. The tissue becomes hypoxic, or oxygen deprived.  Preceding the actual knot is an adhesion.  An adhesion is fibrous tissue that develops from a small tear in the muscle, tendon or ligament [...]

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Keeping your Resolution

It is that time of the year when people decide on a resolution. Is this year going to be the year that you get back in shape, quit smoking, save money, work less and spend more time with the family and friends?  Although we aspire to improve ourselves, often times, we stop going to the gym after a month or start smoking again and we fall back into our old habits. One of my New Years’ resolutions is to start this blog.  This being my first post, I will give some advice on how to keep your resolution. Many of us make a resolution more out of custom rather than actually planning. This is why the success rate of New Years’ resolutions tends to be low.
So how do you keep your resolution?  Here are some tips to increase your odds at maintaining your goals [...]

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