Eating for Healing with Dr. Cherrelyn Seegers , D.C.
Thursday, February 24 at 6:00pm
Butterfly LIFE Sunnyland (Next to Trader Joe’s)
2460 James St.
Bellingham, WA, 98225
Did you know that inflammation can make it hard to lose weight and harder to heal from injuries? Learn how to identify what your problem foods might be and how to deal with it.
Dr. Cherrelyn Seegers has had a practice in Bellingham for the past 13 years and her passion is working with all kinds of athletes. Dr. Seegers utilizes a variety of techniques to achieve complete restoration of movement. Patients are always instructed that stretching and strengthening exercises are necessary to their care and that core strengthening and nutrition are needed to keep bodies in top performance shape.
When It Hurts Too Much To Exercise, With Karen Nellessen, PT
Tuesday, February 1st at 6:30pm
Butterfly LIFE Sunnyland (Next to Trader Joe’s)
2460 James St.
Bellingham, WA, 98225
Concerned about coming back to exercise after an absence due to an injury? Come join us as Karen Nellessen, PT discusses some basic principles of returning to activity after an injury, guidelines for knowing when/how to progress activity, and when to rest/recover from flare-ups. Karen Nellessen is a physical therapist at Healthy Focus Physical Therapy who specializes in orthopedics. She focuses on treating a wide range of musculoskeletal dysfunctions and has a special interest in returning patients to exercise after trauma, microtrauma or surgery.
Here’s an interesting story from the UK: GPs Urged to Prescribe Wales Forest Walk Remedy.
In a nutshell, the Welsh forestry commission is promoting the health benefits of walking in the woods instead of in town or on treadmills. We all know walking is good for you, but does it matter where you walk? According to commission spokesman Richard Davies, it does.
Davies said, “Studies have shown that looking at greenery causes a rapid reduction in stress – blood pressure, muscle tension pulse rate – usually within minutes of exposure, and is most obvious when the body is already stressed.”