Exercises for Better Health

Series Description: If you need to know how to work out while pregnant, treat tendonitis and other ailments, or just keep your body functioning properly, these exercises for better health will put you on the right track. Get sound advice from a certified trainer in this video series.

Exercises for Better Health : How to Prevent DVT With Exercises
You can prevent DVT, or deep vein thrombosis, with exercises such as squats that prevent blood from pooling in the body's deep muscles. Get that blood pumping with the aid of this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : Exercises That Help Heal Iliacus Tendonitis
Certain exercises employing dumbbells or body weights, including front squats and deadlifts, can help heal iliacus tendonitis, a painful condition afflicting the hip flexor. Learn how to tend to your tendonitis in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : How to Exercise While Pregnant
Once you've moved beyond your first trimester of pregnancy, you must take care to avoid exercises requiring you to lie on your back or risk falling, but you can still exercise while pregnant if you choose the right routine. Learn how to play it safe in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : How Do I Exercise for Spinal Stenosis?
To exercise for spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the intervertebral nerve canals, you want to strengthen your core muscles with stability ball crunches and back extensions. Learn how to combat spinal stenosis in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : Stretching for Abdominal Adhesions
Abdominal adhesions occur when scar tissue builds up in the abdominal wall, but stretching exercises such as the cobra stretch and kneeling hip flexor stretch can restore mobility. Learn how to stretch adhesions away in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : Hip Rotation Exercises for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Complex regional pain syndrome can respond well to hip rotation exercises that keep the body parts moving instead of holding static positions. Get moving with the hip rotations shown in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : How to Do Gymnastic Stretches
Learn how to do a series of challenging gymnastic stretches such as the reverse bridge, the basic butterfly and the pike stretch. A professional trainer demonstrates in this video of exercises for better health.

Exercises for Better Health : How to Stretch Out the Thoracic Spine
To stretch out your thoracic spine, the middle area between your cervical spine and lumbar spine, try exercises such as the Pretzel and Iron Cross shown here. Learn some useful spinal stretches in this video of exercises for better health.