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If you wonder why your hands might hurt after boxing practice, just look at your hand, then look at your arm and shoulder. The forces a trained boxer generates with a punch are significantly more than those your hand and wrist are meant to withstand.
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Heat feels good on sore muscles. That's why a soak in a hot tub or steaming shower is such a relief. However, lengthy exposure to heat -- especially heating pads -- is bad news on minor injuries. Even though heat treatment is a common part of physical therapy, you should avoid leaving a heating pad on sore muscles.
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Breathing with an "open throat" means breathing with the muscles of the throat relaxed. This allows for faster air flow, which can be a help in athletic and musical endeavors. Most people breathe with a "closed throat."
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Shaken baby syndrome is the result of repeated brain trauma from the snapping of the head and neck, a condition that can cause serious brain injury and death. Boxing subjects the head and neck to almost identical trauma, albeit to a head and neck that are better able to absorb the impact.
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Wrestlers who are cutting weight must walk a carefully balanced line between eating enough to maintain their energy and reducing calories enough to lose weight. Although snacking between meals can mean eating too much, a series of snacks throughout the day can help keep your energy levels even.
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It can be hard enough to stay motivated to work out regularly without the added hassle of back pain caused by your workout. Back pain from treadmill workouts can range from annoying to serious and debilitating. As with other kinds of pain, the solution comes once you've determined what is initially causing the pain.
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Antiseptic mouthwash can be used to treat some of the symptoms that cause sore throat. In fact, according to health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente, prescription-strength antiseptic mouthwashes are a commonly prescribed treatment.
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