Therapeutic Resources Blog

Looking into the healing effects of music
May 14, 2014
Learn how dancing eases the effects of Parkinson's disease. Read More »

Early Fitness Can Improve the Middle-Age Brain
May 13, 2014
The more physically active you are at age 25, the better your thinking tends to be when you reach middle age, according to a large-scale new study. Encouragingly, the findings also suggest that if you negligently neglected to exercise when young, you can start now and still improve the health of your brain. Read More »

What Does it Feel Like To Be 100? Centenarians say: ‘83’
May 12, 2014
Age is just a number, according to a recent UnitedHealthcare survey. Centenarians who participated in the survey say they feel 83 “years young” on average, while 65-year-old baby boomers say they feel 55. Read More »

Pig bladders help wounded humans regrow damaged muscle, scientists say
May 9, 2014
They had each lost slabs of muscle to bomb blasts or other physical traumas, then struggled to regain even partial function of their mangled legs. Some even considered amputation. After exhausting all conventional treatments, the five men volunteered for an experimental and seemingly outlandish surgical procedure aimed at spurring new muscle growth: They had swaths of chemically treated pig's bladder sewn to their healthy muscle. Read More »