Tag: health and wellness
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Live Well: Digging up old bones at Colorado Springs library
Pry open the family vault and out pops any number of surprising skeletons. Confusing new relatives, celebrities, famous inventors, politicians, hardened criminals. The possibilities are endless. Some of my maternal family’s old bones: Second-great-grandfather Darius had only one arm. This surprised my mom, who’d never heard tales of said missing appendage, but that’s what he…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Colorado experiences record number of flu hospitalizations
With almost 800 hospitalizations statewide last week, Colorado is in the throes of its worst flu surge in almost a generation, less than midway through a season of sickness doctors say they worry hasn’t yet bared its full fangs. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in the flu, and I think over the last two to…
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Live Well: Try on these one-size-fits-all New Year’s resolutions
We’ve rocked around the Christmas tree, lit the menorah, and drank the eggnog (yuck). We have one more holiday before life reverts to its regular flavor. Some of us are more than ready to leave the year behind, shedding it like a snake periodically discards its scaly costume, or like the adorable hermit crab, who…
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Colorado Springs man becomes first to do 4,000 F45 classes
Vince Provencio is a one-man cheerleading squad. The sun is just starting to warm the pavement outside F45 Training at University Village in Colorado Springs, where the global workout chain offers 45-minute functional exercise classes. Inside the large, mirrored room, more than two dozen exercisers are doing knee circles and hamstring stretches, as they prep…
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Live Well: The art of getting lost
It never fails. Put me behind the wheel and I will get lost. I get lost going home from work. OK, that’s an embellishment. However, I did get lost recently driving back from Denver, a drive I’ve made countless times. One moment I’m heading back to Colorado Springs, and the next I’m headed toward Limon.…
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Colorado Springs hospital used to treat multiple conditions
After landing in Nashville, Tenn., for a weekend adventure, Vanessa Lopez attributed the slight pain in her right ear to the pressurized environment of an airplane. Her hearing was fine, though, and the pain eventually went away. She gave it no more thought after returning home on a Sunday, thinking everything was normal. It wasn’t.…
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Highly contagious disease making rounds in Teller County
Some Teller County schools have had an unexpected case of déjà vu. The highly contagious Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease has been making the rounds, leaving behind sick kids and worried adults. And it’s feeling a lot like a truncated version of the dreadful novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020. “We learned a lot back in…
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Colorado Springs gym owner runs 500 miles, trains others in non-mainstream fare
Weight racks, punching bags, kettle balls, weight plates. All the typical gym accoutrements line the walls at The Den Somatics. But the health-hungry men and women in this morning’s primal movement class don’t lay one hand on any of it in the gym near Manitou Springs. Instead, they’re crawling, shuffling and slinking across the mats…
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Live Well: It’s dark, cold, but no moping allowed
I suspect most of us agreed to fall backward this past weekend. Some happily, some begrudgingly. I fall into the latter category, even though who doesn’t love a faux extra hour in their day? But here we are, and there’s little point in holding a grumpy grudge about it. We must accept the cold months…