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Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS
Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS

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Tackling health misinformation one story at a time — Top Stories Health Misinformation: Stories on health and medical misinformation Health and Fitness: Stories providing health and fitness tips Growth: Stories about personal and professional growth Books: Stories with book recommendations and lessons learned from them Writing: Stories about writing tips and lessons learned Medium: Stories about successes, failures, and…

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About Zach Walston
About Zach Walston
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Published in Better Humans

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Want to Keep Functioning as You Age? Don’t Ignore the Hip Flexors

Why you should never skip leg days—and how to use them to train for life-long vitality — What are the most important physical markers of health as we age? Researchers and doctors often ask this question. I have to consider it daily in the clinic as a physical therapist. The marker most often cited and supported is gait speed. How fast we walk is one of the…

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Want to Keep Functioning as You Age? Don’t Ignore the Hip Flexors
Want to Keep Functioning as You Age? Don’t Ignore the Hip Flexors
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Why I Won’t Stop Calling Out BS in Healthcare and the Fitness Industry

I met another person who was caused unnecessary harm — “I saw your story on LinkedIn about posture…are you serious?! Poor posture isn't the reason I have pain?” As I was leaving a graduation party for our 2020 and 2021 orthopedic residency classes (COVID delayed the former), I met one of my colleague's wife and this was the opening to…

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Why I Won’t Stop Calling Out BS in Healthcare and the Fitness Industry
Why I Won’t Stop Calling Out BS in Healthcare and the Fitness Industry
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Stop Telling People Posture Causes Pain

How much longer are we going to ignore decades of research? — The posture nonsense is getting out of control. While preparing for a residency lecture this week, I came across an article on posture written by a physician. It was hard to contain my frustration. “Sitting badly or standing in a slouched position stresses your lower back, weakening and damaging an…

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Stop Telling People Posture Causes Pain
Stop Telling People Posture Causes Pain
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The Biggest Myths About Exercise

A physical therapist addresses misconceptions around intensity, soreness, and pain — “No pain, no gain” might be the worst phrase ever uttered in the gym. Asking the question, “Is it soreness or pain?” is a close second. At the end of the day, both pain and soreness are unpleasant. Attempting to delineate between the two is meaningless for most of us…

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The Biggest Myths About Exercise
The Biggest Myths About Exercise
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Daily Pain Medication is Not the Solution to Joint Pain

Osteoarthritis is a common concern and one of the leading causes of pain and disability in older adults. The pain contributes to a large reduction in physical activity participation, resulting in atrophy (loss of muscle) and weakness. To break this vicious cycle of physical decline, physicians and physical therapists often…

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Daily Pain Medication is Not the Solution to Joint Pain
Daily Pain Medication is Not the Solution to Joint Pain
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·4 days ago

Arthritis Doesn’t Stop You From Building Muscle

Lessons from a recent study in patients with hip arthritis — Are weakness and atrophy a cause of pain or a result of pain? It can be both but I find clinicians tend to focus on the former (I certainly used to), blaming a patient’s pain on their weakness. If someone is in pain, their activity level tends to drop. If…

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Arthritis Doesn’t Stop You From Building Muscle
Arthritis Doesn’t Stop You From Building Muscle
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·5 days ago

Why Exercise, Not Posture, Should be the Focus for Work-Related Pain

How to reduce and prevent work-related pain — How important are posture and ergonomics for workplace safety? Well if we take a step back and look at the relationship between posture and pain, we find many of the claims made by the media, doctors, and physical therapists lack support in research. Posture is not something we should be…

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Why Exercise, Not Posture, Should be the Focus for Work-Related Pain
Why Exercise, Not Posture, Should be the Focus for Work-Related Pain
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·5 days ago

How to Structure Exercise to Tackle Hypertension

New research compares progressive and nonprogressive exercise — Hypertension is a common issue I encounter in the clinic. While medication can control blood pressure, it does nothing to correct the root cause and fix the issue. Lifestyle change is required to truly tackle hypertension. This largely falls in the diet and exercise buckets. Very briefly on the former…eat…

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How to Structure Exercise to Tackle Hypertension
How to Structure Exercise to Tackle Hypertension
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·6 days ago

What is the Best Exercise for Low Back Pain?

A simple answer from a physical therapist — There is no such thing as the best exercise. Let me be clear, this does not mean all exercises achieve the same benefits or that any exercise can be used to achieve your fitness and wellness goals. Exercise promotes a variety of physiological benefits, including but not limited to improvements…

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What is the Best Exercise for Low Back Pain?
What is the Best Exercise for Low Back Pain?
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Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS

Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS

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