THIS article is inspired by our clients who are referred by various medical practitioners with the goal of improving their health and well-being across different age groups. Our facility receives referrals typically from orthopaedic practitioners with regard to recovery from musculoskeletal injuries. But for the past few months, we’ve been receiving clients who doctors refer for exercise with the goal of improving blood sugar and even cardiac health. Ten years ago, this wouldn’t have been the norm as the idea that exercise could be used as an intervention to improve markers of disease was still budding (at least in our country).

So, what do we know now that we didn’t know then? Well, we knew that exercise is good, but as the body of exercise science has been expanding, we are starting to learn more mechanisms, and why exercise is good for us, here are some examples:

I hope you all learned something today. The field of exercise is growing, and as we grow we know more and more about how to utilize exercise as a tool to impact better health.