This week brings us back around to Family Week and we’ll again return to discussing interesting research articles. Since the entire FMR Team is made up of clinicians and dedicated practitioners, we work hard to keep up-to-date on the science and medicine that affects the way we work with clients and patients. This is the second occurrence of our New Research series and we’ll continue to take into account your feedback and ideas as we move forward. Below are listed the fuel, move, and recover articles that we’ll be discussing this week.
Including the articles will allow you to read ahead before the podcast drops. If you don’t often read the article(s) or prefer to leave that to us that’s not a problem. When articles are pre-selected by the FMR Team, we will include a general description of the articles’ topics. Then you can ask a general question about the subject of the article.
As always, you are always welcome to present the team with an unrelated question regarding how you fuel, move, or recover. We might answer and discuss it at the end of this podcast or perhaps during another week when we do a mailbag episode of left-over questions.
Fuel Topic: The Fuel Squad is hard at work selecting an article for this week, which you will hear when the show drops on Friday. Meanwhile, you are welcome to ask a general question related to nutrition!
Move Topic: The importance of using your abdominals can’t be overstated. This article investigated the added benefit of purposefully using your abdominals while testing shoulder strength. What questions do you have about the use of abdominals during general exercises? Have you wondered how to use your abdominals during exercises that aren’t specifically targetting your abs?
Cacolice PA, Carcia CR, Scibek JS. Shoulder Flexion Torque Is Augmented by a Volitional Abdominal Isometric Contraction. J Strength Cond Res. 2021;35(4):920-923. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000003277
Recover Topic: Sleep is so important and having chronic neck pain can have a negative impact on the quantity and quality of your sleep. This article investigated a new kind of “spring pillow” and what effect it has on sleep for those with chronic neck pain. What questions do you have about getting better sleep? Do you have a question about the pain that prevents you from sleeping well?
Vanti C, Banchelli F, Marino C, Puccetti A, Guccione AA, Pillastrini P. Effectiveness of a “spring Pillow” Versus Education in Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Phys Ther. 2019;99(9):1177-1188. doi:10.1093/ptj/pzz056
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