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Exercise After Age 50
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• Spend another few minutes every day and before any vigorous exercise doing calf stretches and forward bends.
• Stay hydrated before, during and after your workout.
• To reduce your risk of muscle soreness after exercise, consider a massage, an Epsom salts bath or intermittent hot and cold showers, as well as proper stretching and cooldown.
• Muscle strains and muscle pulls are major health concerns for weekend athletes. Signs you should look for alerting you to rest your muscles and avoid overtraining are a higher than normal resting heart rate, disrupted sleep due to an ele- vated heart rate, muscle cramping and muscle twitching.
• Eat right. In addition to lots of fruits and vegetables and a few lean meats, consume foods with magnesium, which helps fight inflamma- tion, and with vitamin B12—especially if you’re
over 50—such as fortified cereals. Drink three cups of fat-free or low-fat milk throughout the day or consume the equivalent in yogurt, cheese or other dairy products. Consider an anti-inflam- matory diet—cut out sugar, potatoes, tomatoes and eggplant.
• Go topical. Topical pain relievers such as creams, gels and patches work locally. For exam- ple, the Salonpas Lidocaine 4% Pain Relieving Gel-Patch provides the maximum strength of li- docaine available without a prescription.
According to the Center for Medicare Advo- cacy, “[Lidocaine] is a highly effective pain reliev- er and its unique non-narcotic and nonaddictive properties make it a benign alternative to opioids, without the risks and devastating side effects of opioids.”
These unscented patches can desensitize ag- gravated nerves and provide numbing relief gen- erally within an hour of application.
Learn More
For further health hints from Dr. Arnot and others and information on relieving aches and pains, go to http://salonpas.us.
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