Mat Pilates to Perfect Your Posture

Course Objectives:
At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to: Perform at least ten exercises, specifically for the dental professional, to help prevent or maintain muscular-skeletal health. Discuss the importance of movement throughout the day to allay back, neck and shoulder aches.

Course Description:
Join Juli in this engaging genuine Pilates exercise class like no other and experience joint release stretches and classic Pilates matwork designed specifically for the dental professional. Correct pitiable posture and learn to sit tall, stand strong and work without pain! Your abs, back & buns will thank you! Exercise mat or large towel recommended for the course. For participants with neck issues, please have an extra smaller towel.

Eating Healthier for Better Function

Course Objectives:
List three positive features of the USDA “MyPyramid”. Review the latest dietary guidelines of the New USDA “My Pyramid”. Discuss one finding from the Omni Heart Trial Study. Identify differences among high carbohydrate/protein diet plans. Describe the importance of different types of fats in a diet. Determine the glycemic load of a carbohydrate. What percent of the diet should come from protein to help control blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and risk of heart disease? Identify several strategies to help manage food intake.

Course Description:
The concept of a healthy diet is changing; nutrition is different today. Learn about making better choices so that eating more carefully now pays off later, especially when it comes to heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and obesity. Find out the truth about fats, glycemic load, proteins, carbohydrates, and weight loss and finally get off your diet and learn to live more FUNctionally!

Watch Your Back: Using Pilates Principles to Perfect Your Posture

Course Objectives:
At the end of the session, the attendee will be able to: Identify the cause of forward flexion of the spine while seated. Discuss the prevalence of neck and shoulder injuries for the dental professional. Explain neutral pelvic position while seated, including neutral spinal alignment. Recommend appropriate strategies for sitting as well as ergonomic strategies in the dental treatment room to minimize physical strain or injury. Demonstrate at least five exercises, specific for the dental professional, that can be performed chairside, to help prevent or maintain muscular-skeletal health.

Course Description:
Fed up with lower back or shoulder aches? Want to get rid of that pain in your neck, once and for all? Learn the causes and solutions to these distressing conditions in addition to chairside exercises to help you sit tall, stand strong, and work without pain!