Patient Money - Caring for Hips and Knees to Avoid Artificial Joints - NYTimes.com

Patient Money - Caring for Hips and Knees to Avoid Artificial Joints - NYTimes.com One of the articles related to how Tai Chi and yoga as less impact sports that can help fitness without wear and tear on joints that do not repair themselves well. Care in youth can prevent artificial knees and hips in old age. Prevention is always better than surgery if you can help it. I was able to get to Dr. Scott Vander Ploeg's Madisonville Community College class site for World Tai Chi day between the tornado watch and thunderstorms. I also had the fun of doing Ward Off and sparrow and had my left hand go low and touch Moses the Great Dane's cold nose which was kind of fun. We did it at MCC near the Glema Mahr site by one of my favorite statues of a little boy Indian with bow behind him looking down sheepishly and a big ole bear looking him in the face entitled Repentence. I was near Magnolia blossuming trees with the wind up from the storms and was kind of neat. At 10 am we did 4 rounds to each compass direction and managed to get home before the storms hit. It was very good for me and to honor my classmates who have been blessed with a good teacher and a good art to learn for stress relief and for health. I completed my Trover Foundation Fitness Formula class and next week will be back to my own work out routine. I had a good teacher there and kept running into friends like Professor Chaney and his wife who used to help Veteran's at MCC. I had him for college chemistry and then inspected him when he worked at McCoy and McCoy Laboratory. He is the most talented person I know on languages both reading and speaking. This week Leonard Nimoy announced his retirement from acting. I hope he never retires from being the kind of artist that makes a difference. Live long and Prosper.