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Want to finally deal with those pesky aches and pains? Unsure what kind of practitioner is best for your needs?

Here, we let you in on the finer details of two of the most common healing modalities utilized today.

Is it a fitness studio, or a torture chamber? When you don’t know how they are used or for what reasons, they seem like an array of confusing contraptions. Of course, they are quite the opposite.

Here, Pilates trainer and scuba diving extraordinaire, Juliana Lopez, explains TWO tiny tricks to ensure you keep your spine in check at all times.

Q: Hi Raul Bravo. You’re a Pilates and Fitness Trainer at Flex. Is my muscle strength imbalance common?

A: It’s a normal psychological issue. Human beings tend to overwork one side of the body; the side that they write with, hold a utensil with and so on. BUT, unhealthy muscles and incorrect body alignment will be formed.

This research was undertaken to see how prescribed exercise could improve the affects of chemotherapy. Anecdotally, all the patients on the program seemed to be getting less of the expected side effects of chemo – particularly less nausea and fatigue.

And in the 38 patients who went through the exercise program, muscle wastage was almost completely blocked. Some even gained muscle.

In charge of the study was Professor Robert Newton, reported as saying at the time that: “We now have a growing number of research studies showing that if people hit a certain level of physical activity – which is relatively modest, to be honest – then they’ll more than double their chances of surviving their cancer. In other words, they halve their risk of dying”.