Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

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Muscle Pain & Bruising After Workouts

Muscle soreness and bruising are extremely common side effects of exercise. While both conditions can cause discomfort, they are not usually serious and tend to heal themselves without the need for treatment.

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Legs Tingling and Itching After Running

Tingling or itching legs during or after a run might be annoying and uncomfortable, but it is rarely serious and will usually subside soon after you cool down. There are a number of different reasons for these symptoms, most of which can be managed at home.

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Reasons to Not Work the Same Muscles Every Day

If you’re looking to get a toned body and improve your fitness fast, you could be forgiven for thinking the harder and more often you train, the quicker you will see results. In fact, the opposite is usually true. Your muscles need rest to get strong and perform at their peak.

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At Home Leg Exercises for Women With Blood Clots in the Legs

Blood clots can occur in any vein in your body, but they most commonly develop in the deep veins of the legs. A clot that forms in this area is called a venous thrombosis and the condition is referred to as deep vein thrombosis, or DVT for short.

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Quick Heart Rate While Sleeping

A rapid heart rate, also known as tachycardia or heart palpitation, is the sensation that your heart is beating more forcefully, irregularly or faster than usual. In many cases, when you experience this feeling at night, it is simply because you are more aware of it at rest than when you are busy during the day.

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Exercise to Increase Nerve Gliding in the Lumbar Spine at L4-5

Pain in your lumbar spine is often caused by compression of your sciatic nerve, which runs from the back of your hips and down your legs. This condition is known as sciatica and symptoms include sharp pain in the lower back that can shoot down one or both legs.

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Kinesthetic Exercises

Kinesthetics refers to the awareness you have of your surroundings through sensory experience. For example, if you are a kinesthetic learner, you acquire knowledge best through tactile, hands-on activities rather than visual or listening methods, explains Terry Farwell on the Family Education website.

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Stretching Exercises for Broken Ribs

The most common cause of broken ribs is a major blow to the chest, for example, from a fall or sudden impact, as in a sporting tackle. Often broken ribs are actually cracked or fractured and, while painful and tender, heal themselves over time.

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Middle Deltoid Dumbbell Exercises

Your deltoids are the biggest and strongest muscles in your shoulders, and are made up of front, back and middle sections. The middle deltoid muscle is the one you use to abduct your arm -- that is, move it away from your body.

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Muscle spasm - after sport training

Rehab Exercises for Peroneus Brevis

Peroneus brevis is one of the peroneal muscles that runs down the outside of your lower leg and enables you to turn your foot outward and raise the front of your foot off the ground when taking a step, known as plantar flexion.

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Exercises for Cervical Dizziness

Cervical dizziness, also known as cervical vertigo, is usually cased by neck or head injury such as whiplash, or compression of the arteries in your neck. The most common symptoms are dizziness when you move your neck and ear pain.

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Tendonitis in the Upper Arm

Your tendons are strong fibers that attach your muscles to your bones. Tendonitis occurs when one of your body’s many tendons becomes inflamed.

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Exercises to Do at Home for Cervical Lordosis

Cervical lordosis is the abnormal inward curvature of the neck, pushing the head forward and causing it to sit lower toward the shoulders. It can cause back and neck pain. Exercises for cervical lordosis should be done with care.

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Neck Exercises to Deepen the Voice

Stretching and strengthening your neck muscles can help deepen your voice by relieving muscle pressure on your vocal cords, according to James P. Thomas, M.D., writing on Voicedoctor.net. This, in turn, lowers voice pitch and improves resonance.

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Steady Hand Exercises

It is normal for your hands to shake slightly as the nerves and muscles switch continuously between states of relaxation and contraction, says EmbarrassingProblems.com.

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Facial Exercises for the Jaw Line

There are 44 muscles in the face. As you age, they naturally lose strength and tone. One area that's particularly prone to sagging is the jaw line, although regular exercises can help build the jaw muscles and keep skin firm and lifted.

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Facial Nerve Exercises

Damage to the facial nerve can affect your ability to control facial movement and, therefore, the symmetry of your face, says the Affiliated Otolaryngologisits website. Specific exercises can help retrain the nerve to activate the facial muscles and improve alignment.

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Exercises to Avoid With Scoliosis

A common misconception for people with back conditions such as scoliosis is that they should avoid physical activity. In actuality, certain exercises can help to relieve the pain associated with this condition, which is characterized by an abnormal, sideways curve in the spine.

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