Grand Junction CO Parade of Lights!

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Worksite Ergonomics

Seeing a lot of patients on CE III who could avoid a lot of pain by making minor changes to working conditions. Pay attention to ergonomics.  MOVE as much as you can to take breaks.  See a physical therapist!

Official OSHA Guidelines for Computer Desk Work Stations

Denver

Freakonomics Repost...

Freakonomics is one of my favorite blogs.  This is a post about the new Danish fat tax and just how misguided policy makers were in creating this legislation...  This fat tax, as pointed out in the article by Steve Sexton, disadvantages the poor for being too poor to make healthy eating decisions.

This kind of legislation has proven marginally effective in the past with smoking cessation.  As a sin tax, smoking cessation is completely that unhealthy eating.  EVERYBODY HAS TO EAT.  And we can't all afford $5.00 - $9.00 for a red pepper at the Community No-Op.

Anyway, great article.  The answer isn't always just "live more like us healthy people!" Give it a read:

The Orwellian Efficiency of a “Being Fat” Tax



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LBP and Muscle Sequencing

My first wordcloud!  Research we are presenting (poster) at CSM.  I cannot wait to put this image in a PPT for research night on campus!!!

Dude. Elderly is not the the preferred nomenclature.


When performing a literature search on pubmed, the preferred term is "aged."

GCB ride! Ryan's first ride. No big deal.

A major part of my weight loss plan this year has been drinking beer.  Yep.  Beer.  Beer has helped me lose weight.  How??  With a 26 mile round trip ride from my house to Golden City Brewery.  I have great friends that go on this ride with me on a regular basis!  

Seriously though, I have been biking a lot more, and am now down to 222 - 1 pound away from the 40lb mark!!!!  It hasn't been a dramatic or life changing story.  There wasn't anything except a little confidence and a lot of boredom that led to me riding my bike more, and swimming a little bit while I was on my last clinical rotation.  Once I started SEEING and FEELING the weight loss (ease of sleeping, pants sizes dropping, pretty girls smiling at me, etc...) I became more motivated, rode a little more, and then started eating a little less.  Baby Steps.   It felt like the first 20 pounds came off over night.  It came off so fast I was actually worried it was a little unhealthy.  Once I got under 240 it started slowing down - being back in class might have changed the trajectory, as well.  Still, my weight is trending downward.  

261 lbs on Memorial Day 2011.  

Goal: 215 by Halloween.