So your child is ready for sports? Naturally, you begin to investigate different options only to discover you're required to spend 5 nights/week and hundreds of dollars to begin. As a parent, you value physical pursuits AND having a life outside of sports. And maybe, just maybe, you'd like to get some exercise yourself. Is there no middle ground?
Yes! Meet Running Medicine, a running club organized around the idea that movement is medicine. Running Medicine was founded in 2016 as a part of the Native Health Initiative (NHI), which was designed to “create a culture of wellness through a supportive, loving communty.”
At only $15 per season, RM is an affordable alternative for anyone, especially families. The coaches run the club professionally
and have committed themselves to the goal of ensuring a positive, injury-free experience. Running Medicine meets in two locations. The Westside group gathers at the Alameda Open Space on Monday and Wednesday, and the Eastside group meets at the UNM North Golf Course on Tuesday and Thursday. Collective meetings are held on Saturdays at varying locations with six fun Friday night runs scheduled over the summer. One of my favorite aspects of Running Medicine is the pressure-free environment, designed to help members reach their goals while having fun. The club encourages everyone to participate: all ages, skill levels, life stages, and cultures. However, if you are, or decide to be, a competitive runner, RM has a place for you, too. The RM competitive adults participate in races around the state, while the youth interested in Track and Field enter USATF sponsored events in the spring. While our family has always been active, I have to admit that I wasn't too excited to run twice a week. For fear of the unknown, I’m often hesitant to try new things, but as my family likes to remind me, everyone has to start somewhere. Despite my initial reluctance, I committed to the spring season, and I’m happy to report that it’s been a great experience. As a result, I’ve grown as an athlete and look forward to running Cross Country in the fall. Additionally, my brothers placed 2nd and 3rd in their first track meet, and my parents ran with us at each practice. We would love for you to come join our family and get your dose of running medicine.
Good afternoon! Our teams name is the Medicans, now I know that sounds like we only support one thing but we believe in all of our subjects equally. Today I will be talking about lowering the cost for prescription/medical cost, making school time later in the day, and changing taxes. The first subject I will be talking about it Prescription/Medical Cost. For citizens who have to pay for prescription/medical cost, it can become quite expensive. Insurance may cover the costs but when they don't and you truly need it fast what will you do? We believe in lowering prescription/medical costs. Now I know you might be thinking or maybe you’re not but this sounds an awful like Obama care, well since our new president was just elected Donald Trump,
According to the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, 1 on 3 American adults have high blood pressure. (Attention getter)
Today I am going to be choosing diabetes for my medical topic. There are several types of diabetes. There is type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and gestastional diabetes. Our body naturally produce insulin and but sometimes there are cases where are body doesn’t produce enough insulin or does not properly respond to the insulin produced which results in high blood sugar levels. High blood sugar levels is not healthy for our bodies because it can lead to us going into a coma. If this is left untreated it can cause very serious health problems including death.
More specifically, children are also increasingly pressured--again, usually by parents and coaches--to specialize in one sport and to play it year-round, often on several different teams (Perry). Now, if sports specialization is such a great idea, then why are kids being “pressured”? As stated before, sports specialization can result in severe injury or even retirement from sports all together. Evidently, parents would not want to risk their athlete’s entire athletic career just because of an overuse injury. Knowing this, a diversity in sports activities is the solution to the problem. Additionally, a specialization in sports can lead to the young athlete not experiencing a sport that he or she may truly enjoy in their life. If a parent already makes a child decide on a sport to play, how will the child know if that is the sport they truly want to participate in? As the child ages, they could realize that the sport they play now is not one that they love anymore, so they could just quit. Deciding at such a young age is not only a hasty decision, but also a terrible one. Finally, this specialization can also create social problems. If a child is already so competitively involved in a sport, then their social lives and relationships with friends are at risk. The clear choice here is to let the child live a normal life by allowing them to make friends and play, rather than taking over their lives with competitive
Children have been involved in little leagues since the 1800’s, and with the rising problems of obesity in today’s children, I believe it is important to encourage involvement in physical activity. This could be either a positive or negative viewpoint on early sport specialization depending on how it is looked at. It is estimated that between 18 and 28 million American children are to be involved in some type of organized sports participation. However, is the number of these children who have taken to specializing in a single sport at very young ages (Kauffman). This sudden, growing increase has escalated the idea of sport specialization
Participating in a sport at an early age can be essential to the overall growth process during a child’s upbringing. Whether the participation is through some sort of organized league or just getting together amongst friends and playing, the lessons learned from this can help teach these kids and provide a positive message to them as they develop. There is a certain point, however, when organized sports can hinder progress, which is when adults get too involved and forget about the underlying reason to why they are helping. While adult involvement is necessary, adult involvement can sometimes send the wrong message to children when they try to make participation become more than just about fun and learning. According to Coakley (2009), “organized sports are worth the effort put forth by adults, as long as they do what is in the best interest of their children and put that thought ahead of their own agenda” (Coakley, p. 151). This is a valid argument because once adults put themselves in front of the children and their values, it needs to be re-evaluated as to why they first got involved in the beginning. Partaking in organized sport and activity from a young age can be beneficial to the overall development of children, as long as decisions actions are made in the best interest of the children and not stemming from ulterior motives of adults.
Taylor, M.A. (n.d.). Do’s and Don’ts for Sports Parents. Retrieved from February 10, 2011 from www.gym.net. Website http://www.gym.net/sportparenthandout.pdf
Youth sports parenting can be very impactful for children depending on the parenting style. In the article of “Why Kids Quit Sports” the author discusses the major roles that parents play in their kid’s youth sports life. He discusses a personal experience that he had before with a young player from his little league discussing a conversation with one of his team players. He says that a young athlete had told him that she did not want to do sports anymore because her dad kept on coaching her in the car and sidelines of each game. She stated, “I can’t play when he is around, and he insists on coming to every game, every road trip, you name it. It’s like it’s more important to him than it is to me” (“Why Kids Quit Sports”). Parents are the main
Youth sports are a very important part of a child’s development. Youth sports allows kids to grow as a people and to learn important life lessons. Youth sports also allow kids to interact with people as well as work together with others as a unit to achieve a goal. However, kids are being forced, and pushed in sports at too young of an age by their parents. The number of kids who play youth sports is at an all time low in the country, and parents are a major cause of the problem. In the U.S. by age 15, 80 percent of children who play a sport quit the sport (Atkinson). Kids are being pushed too hard at a young age; children are also being forced by their parents to “specialize” in a single sport in a hope for the child to become a professional
These days, there is too much pressure on children who participate in organized sports because of the unnecessary parental involvement they experience. A growing concern amongst those involved in youth sports is that certain aspects of parental involvement become detrimental to the development and experiences of young athletes. Early emphasis on winning, making money, and the disruption of education can exceedingly affect ones desire to further participate in a sport later on in his/her life.
Have you ever wondered if your kid should play sports.If not I think you should and here our some reasons.First they can be more healthy so they can’t get big and lazy.They can stay in shape and not have any health problems .And have nutrients.
A parent putting his/her child in sports gives the child something to do and keeps them fit. Parents also put their child in a sport hoping that he/she will get success out of it “Eager to nurture the next A-Rod or Michelle Kwan, parents enroll their 5- or 6-year-olds in a competitive sports league or program” (Stenson). While not all parents are pushing for future Olympians, the fight for a sports college scholarship is competitive and parents may feel that their child will have a better chance of gaining one if he/she starts competitive sports early. Parents push their children to succeed, and children—not wanting to disappoint their parents—push themselves, sometimes harder than they should. If done right, pushing a child into sports can have a positive effect on the child’s interaction with other children while teaching them commitment and healthy competition.
The idea of replacing a bad organ with a good one has been in our heads from long time ago. The first heart transplant in animals was made by Vladimer Demikhov. Working in Moscow in 1946, he switched the hearts between two dogs, and this survived the surgery. The first heart transplant in human beings was done in South Africa in 1967 by Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The patient lived for 18 days.
If you’ve worked in the medical field, whether as a CNA or even a doctor, the odds are that you’ve encountered (or at least heard of) tuberculosis in some form or another. You most likely heard of it when you received your TB shot. As a person with a pseudo-phobia of needles, I remember the event quite well. In North America, tuberculosis is not a great danger and as such the majority of the population does not receive the vaccine for it. Only those who are the highest risk tend to get the vaccine, and that just happens to be personnel in the medical community.
Many parents put their children into sports for the wrong reason. They try to live their past dreams of sports glory through their kid. They can push and dem...