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13 Tue

Finding music for your workout

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Finding music for your workout Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI I’ve spoken to a couple patients in the past about working out with music. Specifically, running or biking with music. What music should you play to get the best out of your workout? Tastes in music...

Tags: biking, BPM, cadence, cycle, exercise, music, Paul Kochoa, running, training

12 Mon

Best Free Fitness Apps

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Best Free Fitness Apps Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI When you want to get more fit or improve your health and have a smartphone, there’s no shortage of apps that promise results. A recent study out of the University of Florida actually looked at their claims...

Tags: apps, exercise, fitness, health, Paul Kochoa, smartphone, study

25 Fri

Still jumping and running at 100 years old

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Still jumping and running at 100 years old Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The New York Times recently had an article about a 100-year-old senior track and field athlete who broke 5 records in one day. Don Pellmann was able to run 100m in under 27 seconds, high...

Tags: age, ageing, exercise, geriatric, geriatrics, Paul Kochoa, sports

20 Sun

Power Versus Strength

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Power Versus Strength Michelle Millner, PT, DPT, OCS Muscle Power and Muscle Strength are not the same thing. Muscle power is defined as the product of dynamic muscular force and muscle contraction velocity. To measure power, you multiply the speed at which the muscle contracts with the...

Tags: age, arthritis, exercise, geriatric, Michelle Millner, pain, research

15 Tue

Does exercise change your brain?

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Does exercise change your brain? Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The New York Times had a recent article about exercise in the elderly. They outlined a study on a 95-year-old senior Olympic athlete who had not started serious athletic training till she was 77. Her name...

Tags: age, ageing, brain, elderly, exercise, geriatrics, Paul Kochoa, sport, sports

31 Mon

Sleeping properly to repair your body

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Sleeping properly to repair your body Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI You spend ⅓ of your life sleeping. Sleep is an integral part of your life, doing it properly is so important. When you’re awake, your brain works all the time, learning new things and building...

28 Fri

Staying hydrated: another look

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Staying hydrated: another look Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI When I was in undergraduate school, we studied water intoxication. We looked at the effect of drinking water on cellular osmolarity and the balance between electrolytes inside and outside of cells. Drink too much water, and you...

Tags: dehydration, exercise, hydration, Paul Kochoa, water, water intoxication

07 Fri

Why should you come to see us?

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Why should you come to see us? Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI Why should you come to see us? Have you ever been to physical therapy? We are unique. We are different than any other physical therapy clinic that you may have been to in the...

Tags: direct access, Paul Kochoa, physical therapy

07 Tue

What’s your fitness age?

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What’s your fitness age? Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The New York Times recently had an article about older athletes and their strikingly young fitness ages. What does that mean? Researchers in Norway studied thousands of adults and recorded several vital signs and other cardiovascular measures....

Tags: adult, age, aging, exercise, fitness, geriatrics, injury prevention, Paul Kochoa

09 Tue

Physical therapy never really ends

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Physical therapy never really ends Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI I was reading an old New York Times article about back pain and read an interesting quote. It was about posture control and back pain. Ray Bingham, a board member of Oracle, saw Esther Gokhale (the...

Tags: back, back pain, exercise, injury prevention, pain, Paul Kochoa, posture

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