Southwest Rehab

Learning Objectives: To educate health and fitness professionals about the benefits of prehabilitation for patients undergoing a Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). To provide health and fitness professionals with an overview of the peer-reviewed literature for the efficacy of prehabilitation resistance training as a treatment for Total Knee Arthroplasty. To provide health and fitness professionals with the guidelines for an effective and safe prehabilitation resistance training p

After I wrote last year that diet, not exercise, was the key to weight loss, I was troubled by how some readers took this to mean that exercise therefore had no value. Nothing could be further from the truth. Of all the things we as physicians can recommend for health, few provide as much benefit as physical activity. In 2015, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges put out a report calling exercise a “miracle cure.” This isn’t a conclusion based simply on some cohort or case-c

Plenty of people say they want to be fit, but complain that work, family and other commitments keep them too busy or exhausted to devote an hour at the gym for a quality workout. But in at least 95 percent of the cases, "lack of time" is an excuse for people who want to avoid saying, "I just don't have the motivation." If you were suddenly confronted with a business project that could mean the difference between getting promoted or fired, you would always find time to handle