Strengthening Your Core: Right & Wrong Ways to do Lunges, Squats, & Planks

What do slouching, back pain, and a middling forehand or weak shot off the tee have in common? Often it’s a weak core—the girdle of muscles, bones, and joints that links your upper and lower body. Your core gives you stability and helps power the moves you make every day. Whether it’s bending to pick up a laundry basket, swinging a golf club, paddling a kayak, or reaching to pull a vase from the top shelf of a cabinet, a strong and flexible core makes the move more fluid, efficient, and robust. Strong, well-balanced core muscles can also improve your posture and help prevent back injuries. And if back pain does strike, core exercises are usually part of the rehab regimen.

Core Muscles

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FDA Clears Hyperfine’s Swoop Portable MRI System

Hyperfine Research, Inc. has received 510(k) clearance from the US FDA for its category-defining portable MRI technology, the Swoop™ Portable MR imaging device. Hyperfine’s Swoop™ system is a point-of-care MR imaging device that wheels directly to the patient’s bedside, plugs into a standard electrical wall outlet and is controlled through a wireless tablet, making MR imaging accessible, immediate and seamless.

This clearance for the market-ready device covers enhanced imaging and software, and expands Hyperfine’s brain imaging indication to include patients aged 0 to 2. Swoop™ is the company’s latest-generation device, incorporating user feedback and technological enhancements evolving from the original device, which was cleared in February, 2020. With this clearance, the Swoop™ system is now available for purchase, with shipments commencing immediately.

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