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Weak handgrip strength may signal serious health issues

In a new study, researchers developed cut-off points that apply to the general population, while also considering the correlation of handgrip strength with gender, body height, and aging to be used in medical practice.


Dementia: 3 key things linked to lower risk

Physical and mental activities, such as household chores, exercise, and visiting with family and friends, may help lower the risk of dementia, according to a new study.


Brain imaging reveals how mindfulness program boosts pain regulation

Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has isolated the changes in pain-related brain activity that follow mindfulness training — pointing a way toward more targeted and precise pain treatment.


Better insight into the vagus nerve’s link to brain

Discovery may lead to treatments that will improve cognitive retention in both healthy and injured nervous systems.
 
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Our innate potential

Our innate potential: Participating in the creation of ourselves as RMTs and beyond

Can our endowment of our life experiences, circumstances and perspectives influence our children as much as the endowment of our chromosomes? How might our postures, gestures and behaviours be influenced by our emotional expressions and our learned sense of self? Author and practitioner, Deane Juhan, explores this and other subjects in his second book, Touched by the Goddess: The Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. In a series of essays, Juhan invites us to consider the role bodywork and somatic education play in summoning our innate potential, transforming traumatic experience, and fulfilling our qualities of function, socio-ability, intelligence, and self-actualization as a human being. » Learn more...
 
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