| Exercise
Made Safer
Personal
trainers traditionally work with people who are
healthy.
Physical therapists traditionally treat people
with some type of injury.
In
reality, nearly all of us have some sort of past
injury such as a tendonitis or a past medical
condition like arthritis, which can be negatively
impacted by exercise if it isn't executed properly.
For instance, we know from recent research that:
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Exercisers
over the age of 40 can expect an average of
2.3 to 2.4 injuries per year from exercise
(1,2) |
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Nearly
1 million injuries per year occur from weightlifting
(3) |
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About
50% of aerobics participants experience an
injury within the first 3 months of starting
(4, 5) |
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People
who lift weights are 4 times as likely as
non-weightlifters to develop osteoarthritis
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Clearly,
exercise poses risks. The science of physical
therapy, through decades of research and clinical
experience, offers unique insights and solutions
into injury prevention and safe exercise that
are sorely needed in the arena of fitness.
Seneca
Wellness and Fitness Center therefore bridges
the gap between fitness and physical therapy.
We do this by blending the physical therapy knowledge
and approach to injury prevention with fitness
and general wellness, making exercise much safer
and more effective for our clients.
Building
a Healthier, More Functional Person
Many
gyms are designed around the concept of simply
building muscle strength and cardiovascular conditioning.
Seneca Wellness and Fitness Center goes beyond
this, and is designed around the concept of improving
human performance and function.
Besides
the normal equipment you would typically find
at a gym, we also have highly specialized equipment
that you won't find in a regular gym. Equipment
such as Bodyblades,
Fitters,
Total
gym, Slideboards,
Medicine Balls, Rebounders,
Balance
board systems and others are designed specifically
to enhance human performance and human function.
Focusing
on performance instead of only strength and flexibility
as many others do creates a healthier, more functional
person. Whatever your goal is, we can design a
program to help enhance all areas of your life
at work, home or recreation.
You
Don't Have to Get in Shape Before Joining a Gym
Anymore!
The
atmosphere at Seneca Wellness and Fitness Center
is very non-threatening. According to the Fitness
Industry Association, 82 percent of people in
the US do NOT belong to a gym. One of the biggest
reasons for this is that people believe they have
to be in shape first to join a gym. They simply
don't feel comfortable working out next to someone
in a leotard or with a bunch of pumped up bodybuilders.
At
Seneca Wellness and Fitness Center, our clientele
is incredibly diverse and includes a large population
of people who are rehabilitating injuries. We
do not portray the image of a commercial gym in
which everyone has a hard-body.
In
fact, 70 percent of our clients polled have never
been a member of a gym for more than 3 months
before joining Seneca Wellness and Fitness Center.
The majority of those polled cited the assumption
that they needed to be in shape already in order
to "fit in", as well as needing additional
expertise and supervision as one of the main reasons
for finally joining a gym.
Click
HERE
to read what some of our members have said about
their experience at the Seneca Wellness and Fitness
Center.
REFERENCES:
1.
Watson AWS: Incidence and nature of sports injuries
in Ireland: analysis of four types of sport. Am
J Sports Med 1993; 21:137-43.
2. Zemper, ED: Exercise and Injury Patterns in
a Sample of Active Middle-Aged Adults. Presented
at the International Congress on Sports Medicine
and Human Performance, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
April 1991
3. Powell K, et al: Injury rates from walking,
gardening, weightlifting, outdoor bicycling and
aerobics. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1998; 1246-9.
4. Janis LR: Aerobic dance survey. A study of
high-impact versus low-impact injuries. J Am Podiatr
Med Assoc 1990 Aug;80(8):419-23
5. Garrick JG, Gillien DM, Whiteside P: The epidemiology
of aerobic dance injuries. Am J Sports Med 1993;
21:461-7.
6. Raty HP, et al: Lifetime musculoskeletal symptoms
and injuries among former elite male athletes.
Int J Sports Med 1997;18:625-32.
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