Tag: Exercises

Discover effective chiropractic exercises designed to improve your posture, reduce pain, and enhance overall mobility. Our expert tips and step-by-step guides make it easy to incorporate these exercises into your daily routine, helping you achieve optimal spinal health and prevent future discomfort.

back pain exercise, back pain guidelines
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Exercises for Back Pain: Ten Exercises to Help Your Low Back Ache

From sedentary office life to CrossFit, many individuals suffer from back pain on a daily basis. Regardless of its cause, many treatments such as chiropractic adjustments and massage can help you feel better. However, all of these treatments require you to depend on someone. The truth is that there is a better solution. There are [...]
seniors crossfit, crossfit for all
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The Ultimate Guide to CrossFit in Singapore (2022 edition)

Have you ever wondered how fitness enthusiasts in Singapore are able to stay fit? With a plethora of gyms in the city, there is an ever expanding list of modalities and disciplines to choose from. CrossFit is one such choice. It promises to turn your body into a “fitness machine” with simple steps. But does [...]
muscle knot, muscle tightness
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Why your muscle knot is a problem. No, it’s not what you think.

It's fair to describe your symptom experience as a muscle knot. As a chiropractor, I often hear clients talk about their tightness that needs to be released. However, this is often a problem. Your muscles do not get caught in a knot. While chiropractor Jesse Cai may have stretched necks in his early days of [...]
disc herniation, spinal degeneration
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Why an enactive approach to pain treatment may be what you need

The main focus of my work in clinical practice is chronic pain. While I do still work with athletes and help people with return to sports, most people who seek out my services are patients who have lived with back pain or neck pain for many years. Why pain theories are important to you. In [...]
kettlebell training, crossfit singapore
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Personal training makes sense because exercise is medicine

The best moments in a chiropractor's career is really about creating meaningful change with and for our clients. How does exercise help with chronic pain? When Phase 2 (HA) started, a client decided to put her sessions with us on old because she was living with her senior, unvaccinated mother. We saw again this week [...]
pope, sciatica singapore
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How do you relieve sciatic nerve pain? Can exercise help?

Sciatica is making the news again with Whoopi Goldberg taking time off because of leg pain. During an interview, she said: “I'm telling you, it's like a bad boyfriend who came back to mess with me. There I was trying to move my leg, impossible to do. It was really horrible, but I'm glad to [...]
personal training singapore,
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90% of patients with degenerative meniscus tear benefit from exercise

If you had 90% chance of winning the lottery, would you go for it? I am guessing you would. What if you had 90% chance of getting better with exercise, would you give it a shot? Exercise is not bad for you. Supervised exercise can help you with your knee pain! In fact, exercise is [...]
kettlebell training, crossfit singapore
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How to optimise your training so it can fit into your time-tight schedule

A lot of what I do as a chiropractor is to encourage clients to meet WHO physical activity guidelines. This means engaging in strengthening exercises for at least twice a week! If you are finding it hard to carve out time for weight training, the following strategies may help you optimise your training so you [...]
back pain exercise, pain solution
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Six exercises for neck pain and back pain — does it work?

Someone reached out today to ask if the exercises we prescribed as a chiropractor are the same as what is used in physiotherapy. In my opinion, that is not a very meaningful question because it's akin to asking if cai png and nasi padang are the same. There is no perfect answer to that! However, [...]
personal trainer singapore, functional training
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If exercise is so wonderful, why is it not good enough?

When you decide to hire a chiropractor, you want to feel better. Specifically, you want a working pain solution that doesn't require you to keep coming back. If long-term results is what you are after, then you would know chiropractic adjustments ain't gonna cut it cos it REQUIRES you to keep coming back. Nobody tries [...]
international space station gym, weight training
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Why is weight training important? Is body weight exercises enough?

As a chiropractor, my main job is to help people achieve peak health and well-being. Specifically, I help my clients achieve good physical health without chiropractic adjustments. Because of my focus as in physical well-being, all of my clients will have to lift weights. This is because weight training is a great way for you [...]
kettlebell training, crossfit singapore
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Five exercises for low back pain

Many people in Singapore experience back pain on a daily basis. It disrupts our daily lives and affect everything from work productivity to mundane daily activities. While pain killers and massages may be the go-to-treatment for most people, clinical guidelines around the world all agree that staying active and exercising is the first-line treatment for [...]