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UTEP�s Cross Announces 2017 Miner Soccer Schedule

by Dr Alex Jimenez DC, APRN, FNP-BC, CFMP, IFMCP | UTEP (Local) RSS

Eleven of the 19 games in the regular season will be held at University Field, including the first meeting with the Lobos since 2007. UTEP went 7-3 at home in 2016, aided by a league-leading best average of 540 fans. It marked the sixth time since joining C-USA that the Orange and Blue have paced the league in attendance.

�We are excited for the 2017 soccer season,� Cross said.��It will be very challenging as it always is in Conference USA soccer.�We have some tough non-conference matches highlighted by an away game to start the season at New Mexico State.�The New Mexico Lobos are back on our schedule so we can renew that rivalry, and we have a home game against Stephen F. Austin, a perennial NCAA tournament participant.�We will look to build upon last year�s great season with the help and support of the best fans in Conference USA.�We are very thankful we get to play soccer in El Paso!�

The Miners will tune up for the campaign with an exhibition home match against Pac-12 power Arizona (Aug. 13)

The 2017 season begins in earnest with the Miners venturing to Las Cruces to lock up with NM State (Aug. 18) in the FirstLight Federal Credit Union Battle of I-10. It is the first time since 2012 that UTEP will christen the campaign on the road. The only other non-conference road games on the schedule will be at Wyoming (Sept. 1) and at Idaho State (Sept. 3).

UTEP will welcome Abilene Christian (Aug. 20) to town for its home opener. The contest will be the first of three straight and six of eight in the Sun City to wrap up non-conference play. The Miners will also play host to CSU Bakersfield (Aug. 25), I-25 rival New Mexico (Aug. 27), Incarnate Word (Sept. 8), Stephen F. Austin (Sept. 10) and New Mexico Highlands (Sept. 13).

With CSU Bakersfield being the first Friday home game, that game will also serve as the date for the annual UTEP Soccer Alumni Association tailgate, sponsored by Rudy�s Country Store and Bar-B-Q.

For the fourth straight year and the fifth time in the past six years, UTEP will begin C-USA play on the road with a match-up at Southern Miss (Sept. 17). The other league road tilts will be at defending regular-season champion North Texas (Oct. 6), at Rice (Oct. 8), at Florida Atlantic (Oct. 22) and at UTSA (Oct. 27).

After the game at USM, the Miners will have three straight and five of seven contests in the Sun City. The stretch starts with UAB (Sept. 24). The other four league home games will be against defending C-USA tournament champion Charlotte (Sept. 29), Old Dominion (Oct. 1), Middle Tennessee (Oct. 15) and Marshall (Oct. 19).

FAU will serve as the host for the 2017 C-USA Championships (Nov. 1-Quarterfinals, Nov. 3-Semifinals and Nov. 5-Final). Last year the seventh-seeded Miners made a run to the semifinals before falling to host and eventual champion Charlotte.

2017 UTEP Soccer Schedule

August 13 (Sun.)�� Arizona (Exhibition)�� 1 p.m.

August 18�� @ New Mexico State�� 5 p.m.

August 20�� Abilene Christian�� 1 p.m.�

August 25�� CSU Bakersfield�� 7 p.m.

August 27�� New Mexico�� 1 p.m.

September 1�� @ Wyoming�� 4:30 p.m.

September 3�� @ Idaho State�� 1 p.m.

September 8�� Incarnate Word�� 7 p.m.

September 10�� Stephen F. Austin�� 12 p.m.

September 13 (Weds.)� New Mexico Highlands� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �7 p.m.

September 17 (Sun.)�� @ Southern Miss*�� 12 p.m.

September 24 (Sun.)�� UAB*�� 1 p.m.

September 29�� Charlotte*�� 7 p.m.

October 1�� Old Dominion*�� 1 p.m.

October 6�� @ North Texas*�� 6 p.m.

October 8�� @ Rice*�� 12 p.m.

October 15 (Sun.)�� Middle Tennessee*�� 1 pm

October 19 (Thurs.)�� Marshall*�� 7 pm

October 22�� @Florida Atlantic*�� 11 a.m.

October 27 (Fri.)�� @ UTSA*�� 6 p.m.

November 1�� Conference USA Quarter Finals @ FAU�� TBA

November 3�� Conference USA Semi Finals @ FAU�� TBA

November 5�� Conference USA Final @ FAU�� TBA

Home games in bold

*Denotes C-USA contest

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Exercise Center

by Dr Alex Jimenez DC, APRN, FNP-BC, CFMP, IFMCP | Fitness, Wellness

El Paso, TX. Chiropractor Dr. Alex Jimenez looks at exercise and fitness from a chiropractic perspective.

The advantages of exercise are plenty: Exercise might help prevent numerous conditions � to osteoporosis � from heart attacks and it can also prevent back pain and neck pain.

Cardiovascular, strength training, and flexibility training exercise all play a significant part in a healthy exercise routine, and each form of exercise contributes to spinal health.

Training &�Stretches

Flexibility is something most people take for granted when they’re young, but growing elderly tends to make the significance of flexibility and stretching training a lot more clear as range of movement begins to fall. Yet, stretching and flexibility training may be incorporated into your fitness routine at any given age, and you may reap the benefits for a long time. Flexibility training can boost your mobility, balance, equilibrium, and posture, which will assist you to avoid back and neck pain. Pilates all, yoga, and flexibility training classes might help you enhance your stretches technique and lead to long-term flexibility.

Weight Training &�Core Strengthening For Back Pain

You could believe strenuous exercise and strength training tend to be more prone to result in a back injury than to prevent one, but your overall spinal health along with function cans significantly enhance. With feeble back and abdominal muscles, on the other hand, you happen to be more inclined to encounter a back strain injury. For the best results, you will want to combine weightlifting with strengthening exercises that use your own personal body weight as opposition to maintain a healthier neck and back. Make sure do not fail core muscles such as transverse abdominals and the external obliques, and to alter your work outs.

Cardiovascular Exercise

Cardiovascular exercise has many health benefits, and it’s also an essential element of a well-rounded workout routine. One of the key advantages to cardiovascular exercise is the way it can simply help with weight reduction. Being obese or overweight can lead to worsening of spinal circumstances and puts extra strain on your back, so discarding some extra pounds with only a little help from cardiovascular activity can mean great things for your back and spine. Cardiovascular exercise also helps you build endurance, which can be essential for long-term health and will help with rehabilitation from spinal and back injuries. Naturally, cardio has wonderful effects on different aspects of well-being too, from enhancing mood and enhancing cholesterol amounts to lowering blood pressure. Because endorphin levels are boosted by cardiovascular exercise, it can also help alleviate outward indications of depression, which may add to the long-term pain experienced by some people. Like that were quality slumber is promoted by cardiovascular activity, and also a good night�s remainder is essential for back and spine well-being.

Exercise &�Aging

It really is particularly important as we age, although exercise is very important at all ages. These deteriorations can impede, although decline of flexibility, range of motion, and function are a part of the natural aging process. Although vigorous action may be hard amongst aged adults, aerobic activity that is light still has tremendous health benefits, specially in comparison to no activity in the slightest. The quantity of exercise one needs so that you can see health benefits might surprise you � you are able to exercise at an intensity level which allows you to carry on a casual conversation and still see health benefits.1 If you have a few other health issues, such as for instance diabetes, high blood pressure, or a heart condition, specific activities may well not be healthy for you. Request your doctor about your planned exercise routine, in case you do not feel comfortable exercising by yourself, and consider exercising in the existence of a physical exercise device. Don’t forget to tune in to your own body, and cease exercise at once should you experience pain aside from muscle soreness that is typical.

The SpineUniverse Exercise Center shows you the top back stretches and neck stretches to maintain your spine powerful and healthy. Discover the crucial advantages of exercise as how to keep healthy as well.

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White Wine Raises Women’s Risk for Rosacea

by Dr Alex Jimenez DC, APRN, FNP-BC, CFMP, IFMCP | Natural Health, Wellness

Could that glass of Chardonnay affect the condition of your skin?

Maybe, according to new research that found women with certain drinking patterns had a higher risk of developing rosacea, an inflammatory skin condition.

“We found white wine and liquor were significantly associated with a higher risk of rosacea,” said study senior author Wen-Qing Li. He’s an assistant professor of dermatology and epidemiology at Brown University.

Rosacea causes redness and flushing on the face and the neck. In some forms, acnelike outbreaks can form, and visible blood vessels can appear.

Genetics can play a role in the development of rosacea. In those with acnelike rosacea, their immune system may be reacting to a single bacterium, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.

While red wine is often pinpointed as the beverage that can trigger rosacea flushing, Li said that that information tends to come from reports by patients who already have the disorder.

The new research focused on alcohol’s role in the development of rosacea. Li’s team evaluated nearly 83,000 women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study II from 1991 to 2005.

The researchers collected information on alcohol intake every four years during a follow-up of 14 years. Over that time, nearly 5,000 new cases of rosacea occurred.

“For white wine, compared to never drinkers, [those who drank] one to three drinks per month had a 14 percent increased risk of rosacea. For five or more white wines a week, risk increased by 49 percent,” Li said.

For liquor, five or more drinks a week raised the risk of developing rosacea by 28 percent, the study found.

Li could not say if the link would hold true for men, as the study included only women. And, he points out that “it is just an association, it is not a causal relationship.”

Li isn’t sure exactly why white wine and liquor seem to increase the risk of rosacea. However, the researchers speculated that the white wine and liquor may weaken the immune system and contribute to the dilation of blood vessels.

For now, Li said, the message is to make physicians and consumers aware of the link.

The researchers also suspect that there are different biological reasons why white wine and liquor seem to increase the development of rosacea and why red wine seems to exacerbate the condition. But they don’t yet know what those differences are, the study authors said.

Dr. Carolyn Goh, a dermatologist at UCLA Medical Center, said the new findings add to knowledge about rosacea.

“It’s interesting that they found a difference between different types of alcohol,” she said.

One of the strengths of the research is the large number of women in the study, Goh said.

Meanwhile, she said, it’s known that drinking alcohol can make rosacea flare up in those already diagnosed. “In the past, people thought red wine would cause more flushing than white wine,” she said.

Besides alcohol, other common triggers in those who already have rosacea include sunlight, caffeine, hot and spicy foods, Goh said. People with the condition report different triggers, she said, so that list may not apply to all patients.

Treatments include topical creams and ointments, Goh said. Laser treatment can help the blood vessels that stay visible after periods of flushing. For patients who have pimples associated with rosacea, oral antibiotics can help, she said.

The study is published online April 20 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Hearing Tests Miss Common Form of Hearing Loss

by Dr Alex Jimenez DC, APRN, FNP-BC, CFMP, IFMCP | Anti Aging

One in five Americans has hearing loss so severe that it interferes with communication, said a 2011 study published in Archives of Internal Medicine. But there may be many more people who have “hidden hearing loss,” but remain undiagnosed because the damage wasn’t detected by commonly used hearing tests, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience.

People who have hidden hearing loss appear to have normal hearing when their hearing is tested using audiograms — the gold standard for measuring hearing — where hearing is typically tested in a quiet room.

The reason some forms of hearing loss may go unrecognized in the clinic is that hearing involves a complex partnership between the ear and the brain. Researchers found that the central auditory system can compensate for significant damage to the inner ear by turning up its volume control, partially overcoming the deficiency, says study lead author Richard Salvi.

“You can have tremendous damage to inner hair cells in the ear that transmit information to the brain and still have a normal audiogram,” says Salvi. “But people with this type of damage have difficulty hearing in certain situations, like hearing speech in a noisy room. Their thresholds appear normal. So they’re sent home.”

The reason hearing loss isn’t detected lies in the way hearing signals travel to the brain: About 95 percent of sound input to the brain comes from the ear’s inner hair cells.

“These inner hair cells are like spark plugs in an 8-cylinder engine,” says Salvi. “A car won’t run well if you remove half of those spark plugs, but people can still present with normal hearing thresholds if they’ve lost half or even three-quarters of their inner hair cells.”

Ear damage reduces the signal that goes the brain. That results in problems hearing, but that’s not what’s happening here, because the brain “has a central gain control, like a radio, the listener can turn up the volume control to better hear a distant station,” Salvi says.

Sound is converted to neural activity by the inner hair cells in the auditory part of the ear, called the cochlea.

The neural signals then travel from the cochlea to the auditory nerve and into the central auditory pathway of the brain. Halfway up the auditory pathway the information is relayed into a structure known as the inferior colliculus, before finally arriving at the auditory cortex in the brain, where interpretation of things like speech take place.

For people with inner hair cell loss, sound is less accurately converted to neural activity in the cochlea, but it is amplified as it travels. Once the signal gets high enough to stimulate neurons in the brain, “It’s like your brain has a hearing aid that turns up the volume,” Salvi said.

Salvi says it’s unknown how many people might have this type of hearing loss, but many older people have difficulty hearing in a noisy environment.

Spotting hidden hearing loss could be as simple as adding background noise to hearing tests.

An experimental drug called LY411575 may offer hope to people with hearing loss caused by a loss of sensory hair cells in the inner ear. The tiny hairs are vital to hearing, since sound vibrations agitate them, causing them to send signals to the brain. When the hairs are destroyed, the brain no longer receives signals that result in hearing.

The new drug works by inhibiting a protein called Notch, which keeps stem cells in the inner ear — or cochlea — from developing into new sensory hair cells. In a study of sound-deafened mice, hearing was improved in the areas where the hair cells were replaced.

Friday 4/20/17

by Dr Alex Jimenez DC, APRN, FNP-BC, CFMP, IFMCP | 915 Crossfit WOD Rss, Crossfit (Local)

Warm-up
Bergener Warm-Up t/ Sn
4 minute EMOM
Suspend Sn 2 @ 80% (try maintain club in fingers for that 2 repetitions)

Relaxation 2min

4min EMOM
Suspend Sn 1 @ 90%

Players however understanding the grab is going to do following:
4min EMOM
Suspend Sn 4 @ lightweight

MetCon
AMRAP Fifteen Minutes
12 GHD Situps (sc: V-ups)
9 Torso to Club (sc: Leaping C2B)
6 OHS (L1: 55/75 L2: 75/115 L3: 115/155 Comp: 145/205)

Additional Power:
Tabata Abs: 20 Fits
5 Rounds- Hollow Stones
5 Models- Russian Turns
5 Models- Crunched Horizontal Heel Taps
5 Models- Situps
*a tabata round is 2o moments function/10 moments relaxation�