Pain relief, balance and active aging with Jeffrey Blake of Crabby Jack's Fitness.

What Pain in the Neck? Resolving Suffering

Jeffrey Balke of Crabby Jack’s Fitness

Jeffrey Blake is a personal trainer in Lubbock. He works locally and remotely.

He has helped people live full and active lives for 27 years.

He is the owner of Crabby Jack fitness named after his dog at the time.

A certified post, a PT therapist, he works with people after they've gone through injuries, or trauma or orthopedic surgery. Once they finish their PT program, Jefrey is nationally certified to take over in order to return to normal activities.

In this episode the discussion covers these topics and more:

• Living an active life, including hiking with MS

• Age doesn’t define your activity and quality of life. There are simple tests of the markers to increased longevity. These criteria can be trained.

• Grandparents training to be strong enough to be lfting grandchildren.

• Most people are fearful and Intimidated by the thought of starting to train, especially when they suffer from pain.

• Considerations of using the weigt room floor at a gym.

• Training with asthma.

• Jeffrey has a system to develop a customized approach based on health history and goals..

• Ankle stability can be trained and is more important than lifting weights or working with machines.

• What is balance versus equilibrium, and what can be done to improve both?

• Ruth and Jeff discuss the Lubbock Provider Network. When different health and wellness specialists work together and cross-refer across professions, more people can be helped more of the time with more issues.

• Breaking the patterns of pain from muscle spasms in a protective state after a fall or accident.

To find out more about Crabby Jack's fitness:

https://www.crabbyjacksfitness.com/

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To contact Ruth, go to https://www.blairclinic.com

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