The Fitness Nurse

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07/19/2023

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09/21/2022

Save Yourself: Neck Pain. One of the biggest problems I personally deal with on a daily basis is neck stiffness and pain. Many of my patients complain of the disturbing popping and cracking noises from their necks. First, because the bones of the neck are so close to the ears and bones being excellent conductors of sound… not much you can do about those crispy noises of the neck, but work through them. YOU HAVE TO MOVE THE JOINTS IN YOUR NECK.

Scroll to the bottom of this page and watch Tom’s wake-up video first… see how easy it is to start a morning routine. Then, come back to the top of the page and read from there.

The neck/cervical spine houses a lot of nerves and is responsible for a TON of stuff, so you want to look after it.

06/13/2020

Can you carve out another 30 minutes from your day to look younger? Face muscles apparently need conditioning too...

CHICAGO - A 30-minute daily or alternate-day facial exercise program sustained over 20 weeks improved the facial appearance of middle-aged women, resulting in a younger appearance with fuller upper and lower cheeks, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. This is the first scientific study to tes...

05/20/2020

About Hydroxychloroquine from Dr. Joe Gastaldo, MD

Joe Gastaldo, MD, Infectious Disease, talks about recent reports of using hydroxychloroquine as a prevention of COVID-19. For a link to his previous videos click…

05/19/2020

I work as a Pain Specialist and I can tell you from experience that has a significant side effects profile and negative interactions with multiple drugs. Whenever patients start developing obscure symptoms from various rashes to mood alteration to movement disorders, discontinuing this drug will usually resolve the problem.

Current recommendations for its use in -19 are that it be used on hospitalized patients only, as part of a drug trial. A recent trial was stopped early because the primary outcome was death.

COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Guidelines. National Institutes of Health. Available at https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/. Accessed [05/19/2020].

COVID-19 treatment and research information from the US federal government.

05/19/2020

There is so much regarding -19 that I spend a lot of time researching the most up-to-date guidelines from renowned sources for clarity. In this I'll be doing my best to share the objective facts about and other related information that I learn.

Image of Sars-CoV-2 Rna Polymerase as published in (Science 2020 10.1126/science.abb7498)

05/15/2020

Could COVID-19 be sexually transmitted?

Joe Gastaldo, MD, Infectious Disease, talks about a recent study that found COVID-19 present in semen. For a link to his previous videos click here: https://vimeopro.com/user95077548/fast-facts

04/12/2020

IT amazing how much you can accomplish in 7 minutes...

Work your shoulders in seven minutes with this circuit.

04/03/2020

Have you heard the phrase “Health 3.0”? What does it mean to you?