Longer Drivers and Lower Scores Last December I completed the Titleist Performance Institute Certification course. I have been an avid golf since my late teens. I was a decent golfer, able to shoot in the mid 80’s on a consistent basis. I lived about 5 minutes from a driving range and practiced quite a bit….
+ …And I didn’t even have fun getting it! When we were young we had pain after doing something crazy, sports, something, something we could pin down as the source. Now we wake up in the morning and have pain “for no good reason”. You don’t know how many times I have heard “I didn’t…
We are certainly living in some interesting times and have had to make some major adjustments, no pun intended, to our lives. I do have to say that in speaking to the many teachers and administrators that come into the office, it seems like our plans for returning to school are widely varied and many…
Tennis and Back Fitness Tennis, like golf, is an activity that requires a lot of twisting of the spine which is where the joints and discs are most vulnerable. It is because of this that we need to take extra care when putting together a fitness and care regimen that will keep up on the…
What about exercise and working out on a ketogenic diet? I was about one week into the ketogenic diet and I was continuing with my regular workout schedule although I was definitely feeling fatigued during my workouts. I remember one day we were doing a workout outside where we ran a lap around the pond…
So what the heck do I eat on the ketogenic diet? The good news is it is actually very simple. Hopefully you read my last blog where I wrote that a ketogenic diet consists of whole foods, ideally organic: grass-fed meats, free-range chickens and wild-caught fish. Basically, we want our protein sources to be what…
So what is the deal with this ketogenic diet? Simply put, the keto diet is a high-fat, moderate-to-low protein, very low carbohydrate diet. More specifically, a ketogenic diet has a 4 to 1 ratio, by weight, of fat to protein, plus carbohydrates. For example, a 2000 calorie diet would consist of 200g of fat, 50g…
30-Day Keto Challenge WOW!!! This is not at all how we expected April to begin. All of us are locked inside, trying to keep ourselves busy, and trying not to eat everything in sight. I know some of my neighbors have talked about having breakfast, then a second breakfast, and so on… We, my wife…
Bullet Proof Your Immune System For those of you who were patients of Dr. Franson’s you may have known him to carry around a pocket-full of acorns occasionally. If someone would say they were afraid of catching something, a cold, the flu, he would throw the acorns into a corner and ask, “what do you…
Scoliosis is a three-dimensional spine deformity that involves both a lateral bending and rotational components of the spine. 3% of adolescents under the age of 16 are affected by scoliosis. The most common type of scoliosis is idiopathic scoliosis. Idiopathic means there is no known cause. The onsets of idiopathic scoliosis is likely multifactorial with…