In most cases, if your knees crack but don't hurt, then the noise is just crepitus–gas bubbles bursting, says Tony Gentilcore, C.S.C.S., cofounder of Cressey Sports Performance in Massachusetts. Sure, crepitus sounds scary, but those gases–oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide–are just part of synovial fluid, a natural joint lubricant. So relax, you're fine.Another harmless knee noisemaker: Your tendons may be clicking back into place after shifting slightly out of their original position.What isn't normal is popping accompanied by pain.”Some guys push their knees too far forward while squatting, and that puts a lot of undue stress on their joints,” Gentilcore says.(Related: Find out What to Do if Squatting Makes Your Knees Hurt.)Over
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and Some Things You Didn’t) about Your Pubic Hair
Sometimes it takes something super-gross to make you contemplate things about your body you never really thought about before. Take this recent disgusting story out of Britain. Earlier this month, Mark Longley, a future groom from West Sussex, was enjoying a bachelor party with his closest male friends when, as friends often do when one of their own is on the cusp of a lifetime commitment to a woman he loves unconditionally, they duct-taped him to a wheelchair and glued their pubic hair to his face.The groom's pubic hair beard–which was photographed and shared on Facebook by the alleged “best man” Steve West–featured the pubic hair of “around 40 men,” according to U.K. newspaper The Mirror.Do you want to
Thank God for The Armoury
Everyone’s got dreams. Everyone imagines a different life, a future self, doing something else, somewhere else, happy, healthy, filled with promise and potential and a different kind of ambition and success. Dwell on that daydream long enough and everything you have now, everything around you – your cutthroat career, your killer commute, your cubicle prison – feels somehow separate, far away, as if behind a fogged-up window. It’s a blessing: next to the bright shining fantasy of where you’d really rather be, who you really feel you could be, this ordinary life, with its ordinary problems, pales into a dull grey nothing. A stagnant life is easy to put up with, easy to forget about, when your mind is somewhere else. When I
What Ever Happened to IUI?
The home brew turkey baster for insemination (Courtesy: Babymed.com) Can’t conceive? Try IVF. Sure, it recently earned a Nobel Prize but isn’t that like going from 0 to 100 mph just like that? Isn’t there something simpler to do first before IVF? Turkey Basting Well, maybe there is. There are 3 levels of conception technology: No-Tech (sex), Low-Tech (IUI) and High-Tech (IVF). Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is the classic low-tech approach to pregnancy. It involves the placement of a washed sample of ejaculated sperm into the female uterus, well beyond the vagina and cervix where ejaculated sperm normally find themselves after sex. It is performed during ovulation to maximize the chance that sperm meets egg. And, like sex (and unlike IVF-ICSI) it adheres to the
2015 Patient Education Day
The SNMMI Patient Advocacy Advisory Board is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Patient Education Day on June 7th, 2015 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. This event will be held in conjunction with the SNMMI Annual Meeting. Please check back for further details about the 2015 program. For more information and to register: Click Here Dates: Sunday, June 7, 2015 (All day)Type: Event
American College Health Association Annual Meeting
Join us in Orlando, Florida Tuesday, May 26 through Saturday, May 30, for five days of networking, collaboration, and continuing education at the beautiful Orlando World Center Marriott!Visit Men's Health Network at booth #313!More information here. Dates: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, May 30, 2015 (All day)Type: Conference
2015 ACHA Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting brings together 30,000 oncology professionals from around the world. Educational sessions feature world-renowned faculty discussing state-of-the-art treatment modalities, new therapies, and ongoing controversies in the field. Science sessions present the latest ground-breaking research in oral and poster format.You’ll meet friends and make connections, and bring back new ideas to your practices and hospitals. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the different opportunities the Annual Meeting offers. Mark key dates on your calendar, find out about networking opportunities, and learn about the committees that develop the session content you’ll discover onsite.For more information and to register click here. Dates: Friday, May 29, 2015 (All day) to Tuesday, June 2, 2015 (All day)Type: Conference
2015 National Men’s Health Gathering
Conference Highlights: Gregory Phillips is a medical anthropologist and a PhD in psychology will draw on his twenty years’ of experience in healing, alcohol and other drugs, youth empowerment, medical education and health workforce and share with us his insights on “Freedom: What Does It Mean to Act As a Strong and Healthy Black Man?” Concurrent sessions focused on high-profile issues, such as young males and incarceration, sharing with us the learnings from programs focused on keeping Indigenous youth out of detention (and keeping them out!) and much more. More informaiton can be found here. Dates: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 (All day) to Friday, October 23, 2015 (All day)Type: Conference
He Masturbates A Lot But No Orgasms For Her
"He gives himself many orgasms but none for me!"He told me he masturbated alot, and gave himself many orgasms and none for me, that's cool, I have too. But I think he is addicted to… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit our website for other content, videos, survey polls and news reports! ]]
East Meets West in Medicine
The Yin (left) and Yang (right) in all its glory. There I go again, a Western guy giving a lecture to an Eastern crowd. What team do I play on, you ask? In fact, I am honored to give a keynote at the First Integrative Fertility Symposium in Vancouver. Ok, call me a “swingman,” but the Easterners have a lot up their medical sleeves too. Ask Western medicine how to help a guy relax, and they’ll say, “don’t work so hard and take this pill.” Ask an Easterner, and they might suggest acupuncture, mindfulness and meditation. Which approach is better: a patch or a fix? You decide. One Happy Family Eastern and Western medicine have very similar goals – to restore the body to a
Why Every Man Needs a Great Rival
One day last May, Sean “Puff Daddy'' Combs, whose $700 million fortune ranked him number one on the Forbes list of “Hip-Hop's Wealthiest Artists” in 2014, woke up to some humbling news. Apple Inc. had just acquired Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion. That meant Andre “Dr. Dre” Young, cofounder of the headphone company and number two on that same list at $550 million, had hip-hopped over him. Dre was touting himself as lead contender to become hip-hop's first billionaire. Combs, who once sang “It's all about the Benjamins,” must have had that sick feeling in his stomach, the one we all feel on being outearned or outclassed by a rival.He fired back, of course. Within days he announced plans