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Enhance Your Health: Diaphragm Breathing Exercises
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Enhance Your Health: Diaphragm Breathing Exercises

Diaphragmatic breathing helps a person engage the diaphragm fully while breathing. This may provide a number of health benefits, including:

strengthening the diaphragm

improving stability in the core muscles

slowing the breathing rate

lowering heart rate and blood pressure

reducing oxygen demand

promoting relaxation

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The Triad of Health, Performance and Body Composition
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The Triad of Health, Performance and Body Composition

prioritizing energy intake to best support health in parts of the off season, performance in season, and body composition in appropriately placed points in the on and off season. Knowing what these levels are brings its own challenges, but it is an approach that may provide the necessary balance between priorities.

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The Relationship Between Inflammation and Training
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The Relationship Between Inflammation and Training

Training adaptations are a stress response. When you exercise, the body is put under stress. Training adaptations are simply the body altering so that the next time you do that exercise it doesn’t hurt quite so much!

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when we use Medical Acupuncture and how it works
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when we use Medical Acupuncture and how it works

What is Medical Acupuncture? Western medical acupuncture is a therapeutic technique involving the insertion of fine needles into different musculoskeletal areas on the body. It is an adaptation of Chinese acupuncture using current knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology, and the principles of evidence-based medicine.

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Ideal Sleeping Positions for a Restful Night
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Ideal Sleeping Positions for a Restful Night

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our bodies health and functioning so here's some sleeping position tips, mattress and pillow advice for a comfortable sleep

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Ballet & Dance Injuries: how osteopathy can help
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Ballet & Dance Injuries: how osteopathy can help

Discover how osteopathy at Midtown Wellness Covent Garden helps dancers stay injury-free by improving mobility, strength, and flexibility. Our hands-on treatments and tailored exercise programs address common dance injuries like muscle strains, joint sprains, and tendon problems to keep you performing at your best. We accept BUPA, AXA, HEALIX, WPA, VITALITY and cash plan insurances

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