Moving Joints

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Yoga & T'ai Chi Chuan! Anyone at any age or shape cane do them, and boy

do they help.

 

On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:38 AM, (AT) (DOT)

com wrote:

 

> dawn pattison-rak <skgpeace

> Re: Exercise

>

>

> In my recent Anatomy classes, I had asked the teacher (a nurse and

> massage therapist) what could be done about the " degenerative " part of

> the diseases my older relatives are suffering from: disks, arthritis,

> etc... She told us that the single most important thing (besides

> drinking ALOT of water!) that one can do in regards to keeping the

> ligaments and cartilage healthy is to move the joints! Just moving your

> various joints, i.e. flexing and extending, stretching, etc. will make

> you more comfortable by making your joints used to moving. Using your

> joints bathes the ends of your bones in synovial fluid (think " oil " ) and

> the more movement you do, the more you are going to be capable of doing.

> just a thought... also, haven't been to any good cocktail parties to be

> able to throw around the " 25 cent words " !!

> -dawn

> Ron McClure <rlmftw wrote:I want to second the comments on

> exercise. I've

> noticed that I feel good when I get thirty minutes or

> more, 5 days per week, of aerobic exercise. Thirty

> minutes or more 5 days per week of pushing and

> pulling, lifting exercising muscles keeps the aches

> and pains out of the bones and joints.

>

> Ron McClure

> rlmftw

>

>

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Free is it from the bondage

Of matter and the senses.

Not bound by words and letters,

The Essence is nakedly exposed

In its pure eternity.

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It exists in perfection from the very beginning.

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, The Stewarts <stews9@c...>

wrote:

> Yoga & T'ai Chi Chuan! Anyone at any age or shape cane do them,

and boy

> do they help.

>

>

 

When I was in California, I would see our Chinese Language teachers

excercising and moving so fluidly, with such grace... and I swear

not one of them was under 80. We used to joke that it was the MSGs

that had somehow preserved them, but I think that it was the purer

form of their diets and that they were so active. I see my 92 year

old grandmother barely able to use the joystick on her wheel chair

and then think to these people, of the same age, and them doing the

stork pose... definitely something to it!

-dawn