Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

Objective Therapeutic exercises are a core treatment for low back pain (LBP), but it is uncertain how rehabilitative exercise facilitates change in outcomes. Realist reviews explore how the context (C ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...

Dr. Valerie Cholet is a Professor of Kinesiology. She earned her doctorate at Penn State University and has taught in higher education for over 20 years. Her areas of specialization include Exercise ...

In a recent study, participants who walked five times a week were 28 percent less likely to have a recurrence of their lower back pain. A team of researchers in Australia recently found that regular ...