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• September 24, 2024

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Dove Dash this weekend to fundraise for traumatic brain injuries care

• September 24, 2024

Ryan’s Reach and the High Hopes Head Injury Program will host the annual Dove Dash on Sept. 28, a walk/run event in Trabuco Canyon.

In 2001, Ryan Corbin fell through a skylight, severely injuring himself and suffering a traumatic brain injury. Since then, the Ryan’s Reach foundation has raised some $1.2 million for people with traumatic brain injuries and their families through various fundraisers, including with the annual Dove Dash.

There are two routes that participants can partake in, a 1K and a 5K, both of which start at Dove Canyon Drive. The 5K begins at 8 a.m. and the 1K begins at 8:45. There are also virtual versions offered.

Entry costs $49.64 per adult and $33.63 per kid. Each entry comes with a free T-shirt.

Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions will also provide a pancake breakfast to all in-person runners. And there will be vendor booths and a DJ. Participants can sign up here.

People can also participate as a team to support various causes. Teams can consist of any number of racers (of any demographic) from the 5K and Family 1K races. Note: teams cannot register on the day of the race. There will also be prizes for the largest team and the fastest team.

People can also donate to the cause. So far, the Dove Dash has raised $2,800 in 2024 and hopes to raise $25,000, according to its website. The organization says funds raised will be used for scholarships for the High Hopes Head Injury Program to help with rehabilitation for those with tramatic brain injuries, strokes and Multiple Sclerosis.

Participants can sign up online or in-person. For last-minute sign-ups or packet pick-up, go to the Trabuco Canyon Water District at 32003 Dove Canyon Drive between 2 and 5 p.m. on Sept. 27 or 6:30 and 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 28.

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Dana Hills football follows emerging standouts to sizzling start

• September 24, 2024

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Dana Hills’ football team hasn’t slowed after capturing its first outright league championship last season.

Several players have raised their performance level to spark the Dolphins’ 4-0 start, the best under fourth-year coach Tony Henney.

“(The) kids are playing hard,” said Henney, whose team plays host to St. Margaret’s (2-2) in a nonleague game on Friday. “They’ve been resilient to adversity and are getting better each week.”

Dana Hills, which claimed the Pacific Coast League title last fall, is averaging about 36 points behind an offense led by quarterback Vanden Dugger, running back Radley Geiss and wide receiver James Leicester.

Dugger is completing 68 percent of his passes, a striking improvement from his 57 percent ratio last season at Sunrise Mountain in Arizona.

The 6-foot-2, 200-pound senior has passed for 889 yards and eight touchdowns and rushed for another 235 yards.

Geiss, a 5-foot-8, 160-pound junior, has started the season with four consecutive 100-yard rushing games after posting one in 2023. He enters Friday with 543 yards and seven TDs.

Geiss has received the bulk of the carries as Dana Hills has played without running back Owen Walz (shoulder).

Henney said Geiss had a “great offseason” in adding 15 pounds of muscle and more speed.

Dana Hills quarterback Vanden Dugger, left, completed 17 passes, 13 to receiver James Leicester, right, in Dana Hills’ 21-7 victory over Laguna Hills on Friday, Sept. 6. (Photo by Martin Henderson)

Leicester, a 6-foot-2 junior, leads the squad with 30 receptions for 347 yards and three scores. He recorded a school-record 14 catches — three more than his total last season — against Esperanza.

One of the keys to the trio’s production has been the offensive line. Henney credits the play of sophomores Logan Day (6-5, 210) and Issaias Amaya (6-3, 300), junior Sean Aguilar (6-0, 225) and seniors Preston Mayer (5-10, 260) and Luka Rios (5-10, 205).

“Our first-year line coaches Joe Murray and Randy Reynoso are doing an outstanding job,” Henney said.

The defense has been led by Thompson Foulger, a junior linebacker whose 62 tackles ranks second in Orange County to Crean Lutheran linebacker Carter Jones (64 in five games).

Foulger (5-8, 165), who had 49 tackles last season, has emerged as an anchor this fall for a unit with nine new starters.

Dana Hills isn’t the only team from the new Foxtrot League playing well. Laguna Beach (5-0) and Northwood (5-0) are undefeated. Aliso Niguel is 4-1 while Orange (0-5) and Fountain Valley (1-4) have played challenging schedules.

“I knew it was going to be this way,” Henney said of the league’s competitive outlook. “Buckle up.”

The league games begin Oct. 4.

MATER DEI UPDATES

Mater Dei (4-0) discussed playing Northern California power Folsom (4-1) this week in a nonleague game but decided to take its bye, Monarchs coach Raul Lara confirmed. The Monarchs will play a nine-game regular season.

In other Mater Dei news, junior wide receiver Chris Henry Jr. recently had surgery, Lara said. The Ohio State commit was injured against Bishop Gorman of Nevada on Sept. 6.

“Chris is recovering from surgery,” Lara added.

SHORT ROUTES

Northwood senior Cole Hidalgo scored all of the Timberwolves’ points in a 20-6 victory against Portola. …

Beckman (5-0) is off to its best start in school history. …

Khryztopher Entrala has emerged as Laguna Hills’ top running back after Ryan McKevitt suffered a season-ending collarbone injury. The junior rushed for 278 yards and four TDs last week in a 35-28 win against Canyon and has 733 yards overall. …

Anaheim senior Eduardo Guardado rushed for a season-high 191 yards and four TDs in a 53-18 win against Savanna. …

In his first start, Newport Harbor junior QB Jake Meer completed 21 of 25 passes for 218 yards and three TDs in a 28-7 win against St. Augustine. …

Santa Margarita played without wide receiver Trent Mosley and defensive linemen JJ Hanne and Tonga Uhila due to injuries in a 14-13 loss at Leuzinger, Eagles coach Anthony Rouzier confirmed. …

Mission Viejo announced the nominees for its Konrad Reuland Hero Award. The players are Hinesward Lilomaiava, Jaden Williams, Cash Semonza, Matthew Cox, Jackson Hamby and Jack Baldi. ….

San Clemente (3-2) won’t not face QB Bear Bachmeier when it plays at Murrieta Valley (3-1) on Friday. Nighthawks coach George Wilson said Tuesday that the Stanford commit, who has been dealing with injuries, “is not ready.”

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Dana Point home, controlled by integrated tech and AI, seeks $10.7M

• September 24, 2024

A Dana Point home so “smart” that the great room’s motorized pocket doors open to the backyard by voice command is on the market for $10.695 million.

The 4,626-square-foot, down-to-the-studs remodel that was recently completed features four en suite bedrooms, five bathrooms and state-of-the-art smart-home technology throughout.

“In fact, the entire estate has smart tech incorporated well beyond many homes today and is designed to work far into the future,” said listing agent Tim Smith of Coldwell Banker Realty in a video home tour.

To prove his point, Smith asks Josh.ai, an AI-powered smart home control platform, to open the left Fleetwood slider, and it does.

Records show the property previously belonged to Franco Fieramosca, the former Gucci and Prada footwear executive who died in January 2021 at 81, and his wife, Cristina Nannelli. The couple sold their home a year earlier to the current owner for $3 million.

Multiple listing service photos posted five years ago show the property has been updated with cutting-edge design and technology, befitting its affluent location.

The custom luxury home, situated on a third-acre cul-de-sac lot in 24-hour, guard-gated Estates at Monarch Beach neighborhood to take advantage of sunsets, boasts views of the Pacific and the fairways at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort and Club.

A pivoting glass entry door opens into the great room. There’s a modern linear fireplace flanked by built-in bookcases, anchoring the living area in that open-concept space. It connects to the dining space, highlighted by a glass-enclosed, temperature-controlled 30-bottle wine wall.

The eat-in kitchen includes marble surfaces, a suite of Miele appliances, a spacious island with seating, and a casual dining area. Both the kitchen and the butler’s pantry are equipped with custom Italian cabinetry that opens using hidden electronic push button technology instead of handles and features interior LED lighting.

Knock on the dishwasher, tap on the refrigerator and these paneled appliances open, too.

The glass walls open to extend the interior with the backyard saltwater pool and spa. There’s a patio with a fireplace and a built-in barbecue bar with a full-sized wood-burning pizza oven and a 36-inch Twin Eagles grill.

On the second level is a terrace with a fire pit overlooking the backyard. It connects to the game room with a wet bar, the media room and the primary suite.

A highlight of the primary bedroom is one of its two custom walk-in closets, which features a chute to the laundry room in the garage below and an app-controlled LG studio Styler Steam Steam Closet.

“But the smart technology doesn’t end there,” Smith said in the video, ticking off the Nest thermostats, Lutron HomeWorks lighting control panel, Vivint security cameras and Samsung Frame TVs that display artwork when it’s not in use and integrate with the Control4 home automation system.

Not to mention Josh.ai.

A seller-owned 25-panel Solaria solar-power system, a solar energy storage backup battery and a JuiceBox EV charger are included in the sale price.

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Former FTX executive Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison for fraud

• September 24, 2024

By Larry Neumeister | The Associated Press

Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after she apologized repeatedly to everyone hurt by a fraud that stole billions of dollars from investors and customers of what once They seemed like a groundbreaking company in an emerging financial industry.

Also see: Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Ellison’s cooperation in the case was “very, very substantial” and praised her testimony, saying he saw no inconsistencies with documents shown to the jury or things she had previously told prosecutors.

But he said a prison sentence was necessary because she had participated in what might be the “greatest financial fraud ever perpetrated in this country and probably anywhere else” or at least close to it.

He said in such a serious case, he could not let cooperation be a get-out-of-jail-free card.

“I’ve seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years here. I’ve never seen one quite like Ms. Ellison,” he said.

She was ordered to report to prison Nov. 7.

Ellison, 29, pleaded guilty nearly two years ago and testified against Bankman-Fried for nearly three days at a trial last November.

At sentencing, she emotionally apologized to anyone hurt by the fraud that stretched from 2017 through 2022.

“I’m deeply ashamed with what I’ve done,” she said, fighting through tears to say she was “so so sorry” to everyone she had harmed directly or indirectly.

In a court filing, prosecutors said her testimony was the “cornerstone of the trial” against Bankman-Fried, 32, who was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Asking the court for a lighter sentence, Ellison’s own lawyers cited both her testimony at the trial and the trauma of her off-and-on romantic relationship with Bankman-Fried — although they also stressed that she wasn’t trying to evade responsibility for her crimes.

“Caroline blames no one but herself for what she did,” her lawyers wrote in a court filing. “She regrets her role de ella deeply and will carry shame and remorse to her grave de ella.”

FTX was one of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, known for its Superbowl TV ad and its extensive lobbying campaign in Washington, before it collapsed in 2022.

US prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried and other top executives of looting customer accounts on the exchange to make risky investments, make millions of dollars of illegal political donations, bribe Chinese officials and buy luxury real estate in the Caribbean.

Ellison was chief executive at Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency hedge fund controlled by Bankman-Fried that was used to process some customer funds from FTX.

Her work relationship with Bankman-Fried was complicated by her romantic feelings for him, her lawyers wrote in a court filing.

“From the start, Mr. Bankman-Fried’s behavior was erratic and manipulative. He initially professed strong feelings for Caroline and suggested their liaison would develop into a full relationship. But after a few weeks, he would ‘ghost’ Caroline without explanation, avoiding her outside of work and refusing to respond to messages that were not work-related,” her lawyers said.

As the business began to fail, Ellison disclosed the massive fraud to employees who worked for her even before FTX filed for bankruptcy, her lawyers wrote.

Ultimately, she also spoke extensively with US investigators.

“Ellison cooperated at great personal and professional cost, enduring harsh media and public scrutiny and attempted witness tampering by Bankman-Fried,” prosecutors wrote.

They said she was forthcoming about her own misconduct and was “uniquely positioned to explain not only the what and how of Bankman-Fried’s crimes, but also the why.”

“In his many meetings with the Government, Ellison approached his cooperation with remarkable candor, remorse, and seriousness,” they wrote. “She dedicated herself to extensive document review that helped identify key corroborating documents in an investigation hamstrung by Bankman-Fried’s systematic destruction of evidence.”

Her testimony at the trial, they said, was credible and compelling.

Since testifying at Bankman-Fried’s trial, Ellison has engaged in extensive charity work, written a novel and worked with her parents on a math enrichment textbook for advanced high school students, according to her lawyers.

They said she also now has a healthy romantic relationship and has reconnected with high school friends she had lost touch with while she worked for and sometimes dated Bankman-Fried from 2017 until late 2022.

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AQMD offers up to $250 to replace gas mowers, other lawn tools with electric models

• September 24, 2024

The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Residential Electric Lawn & Garden Equipment Rebate Program has been expanded to go beyond offsetting costs for lawn mowers, giving residents the opportunity to replace other gasoline-powered tools with electric models.

AQMD officials on Friday announced that the rebate program for residents in the South Coast Air Basin will now include leaf blowers, trimmers and chainsaws. Trimmers can include weed whackers, edgers and brush cutters.

The program offers a rebate of up to $250 for each piece of eligible equipment from authorized retailers, with a limit of three per person.

“Using a gas-powered lawn mower for just one hour emits the same amount of pollution as a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas,” South Coast AQMD Executive Officer Wayne Nastri said in a statement. “By expanding the program, we hope more residents will make the switch to electric lawn and garden equipment, that will reduce their carbon footprint and improve air quality.”

Since 2017, the original Residential Electric Lawn Mower Rebate Program has achieved emission reductions in the South Coast Air Basin of approximately 1.4 tons per year of volatile organic compounds and 0.28 ton per year of nitrogen oxides, according to South Coast AQMD.

Rebates are provided on a first-come, first-served basis, and the destruction of the old gasoline equipment at a certified scrapper is required. The new equipment must be cordless and include a battery and charger to receive the rebate.

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Applications can be submitted online for the rebates, overseen by South Coast AQMD, which is the regulatory agency responsible for improving air quality for large areas of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, including the Coachella Valley.

South Coast AQMD also offers an existing Commercial Electric Lawn & Garden Equipment Incentive & Exchange Program that offers up to an 85% discount for commercial gardeners and landscapers.

For more information about the expanded Residential Electric Lawn & Garden Equipment Rebate Program, visit www.aqmd.gov/lawnmower. For questions about the program, email lawngarden@aqmd.gov or call 888-425-6247.

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Suicidal ideation is terrifying and isolating. This survivor is ‘living proof’ recovery is possible.

• September 24, 2024

Mary Lawal was 8 years old the first time she tried to take her own life.

Time has blurred the details for Lawal, now a 22-year-old psychology student at Prince George’s Community College. She doesn’t remember the circumstances that led up to her attempt — Did she have a fight with her parents? An argument with her siblings? — or how, as a child, she even knew suicide was possible. She has only a vague memory of feeling lonely and unlovable.

“I don’t think I had a full understanding of what I was doing,” she said.

In the last two decades, overall suicide rates in the U.S. have risen by more than a third. They are also up for children ages 8 to 12 — especially among young girls. Nearly 1 in 10 Maryland high school students reported having attempted suicide at least once in the year leading up to fall of 2022, according to results from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.

But there are reasons to be hopeful. For two years, in Maryland and across the country, the 988 suicide and crisis hotline has made it easier to ask for help. And earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, introduced legislation that would create a federal grant program to support evidence-based models for stabilizing people with serious thoughts of suicide. Raskin lost his son to suicide in December 2020.

While suicidal ideation — thinking about or formulating plans for suicide — can be terrifying and isolating, research shows it also is treatable through psychotherapy, medication, family and social support, and other treatments. Nine out of 10 people who attempt to take their own lives do not die during that acute period of crisis, and do not go on to die of suicide in the future. Research shows that most people who make one attempt do not try to end their own lives again.

But Lawal did try again. After her first attempt as a child, she tried to take her own life four more times, most recently in 2021.

Lawal survived. And today, after several years of intensive treatment, hospital stays, medication and therapy, she considers herself to be in recovery from suicidal ideation and self-harm. She’s now an outspoken mental health advocate who shares her story with thousands of people on her Instagram, as well as with lawmakers, mental health workers and educators as a volunteer and youth adviser for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

She wants to bring people in crisis the message she so desperately needed when she was younger — that there is hope of getting better.

“I’m living proof that recovery is possible,” Lawal said. “Mental illness does not have to be a death sentence.”

Mary Lawal has survived five suicide attempts and is now a mental health advocate committed to sharing her story with others and spreading a message of hope. Lawal is a student at Prince George’s Community College. (Kenneth K. Lam/Staff)

Lawal remembers struggling with her mental health from the time she was little. She spent her childhood moving between Bowie and Nigeria, where her dad grew up and ran a business. She switched schools four or five times while growing up, sometimes in the middle of the school year.

Ezekiel Adegbola met Lawal while they were both in high school in Nigeria. He remembers her as someone who quickly adapted to the “Nigerian way of life” and was very bright and funny. They quickly became friends, Adegbola said, and stayed close even after Mary returned to Maryland.

But inside, Lawal felt like she didn’t belong anywhere — like nobody truly understood her. At 13, she began to self-harm. She knew she needed help, but she didn’t know how to put what she was feeling into words. Mental health wasn’t something her teachers or classmates talked about at school.

“I felt as though I was just in this cycle of doom,” she said.

When it comes to preventing suicide — and most other public health crises — it’s key to implement upstream interventions, said Holly Wilcox, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. That means tackling the first seeds of the problem before it becomes a crisis, and teaching people about how to recognize those seeds and what to do when they spot them.

Suicide may seem like too big and scary of a topic to broach with children, but there are age-appropriate — and effective — ways of doing so, Wilcox said. She and other researchers are currently testing out programs in Maryland schools, where kids are given tools for approaching sensitive situations and conversations with their friends, and taught when to involve a responsible adult.

“One thing we’ve been noticing is that students, even as young as middle school, really like having the space and time to talk about mental health,” said Wilcox, who has spent her career advancing public health approaches to suicide prevention.

“By allowing them to talk about it, our hope is that it addresses mental health stigma,” Wilcox said. “They can learn practical skills and learn about different mental health conditions. That should help them when they or someone else in their lives are facing any type of mental health problem or crisis; they’ll have something to draw from to be able to work toward a solution.”

Without a similar program in her school, Lawal turned to YouTube and social media to learn about mental health. Hearing others share experiences similar to her own was helpful, but she still wasn’t sure how to get better. While living in Nigeria, she considered walking to a nearby pharmacy to ask for help.

“I wanted to ask the pharmacist,” she recalled, “‘Do you guys have something for depression or suicidal ideation? Something to help?’”

When she got up the nerve to tell her parents how much she was hurting, they didn’t understand. They were a family of faith — Why couldn’t she trust that God would take care of her?

Lawal’s father, Wasiu Lawal, said he initially attributed his daughter’s mental health struggles to her youth. But things got worse, not better, as she got older, he said. Eventually, even though he didn’t understand therapy — mental health was never something people talked about when he was growing up in Nigeria — he knew his daughter needed serious intervention.

“I was willing to do anything that would help her,” Lawal said.

Toward the end of Lawal’s high school years, her mental health got even worse. In her lowest moments, she would scream and cry to her mother, asking her why she had brought her into the world.

But when Lawal was 19, after years of suicide attempts and terrifying intrusive thoughts regularly sending her to the hospital, a doctor suggested a partial hospitalization program to her family. For several weeks, Lawal spent hours each day participating in group and individual therapy. A few months later, she did the program again. This time, even though it was virtual, Lawal felt more prepared to be open with others in the program — to share her experiences and add her input during group therapy.

After several years of treatment and learning about mental health, it felt like everything clicked, Lawal said. She left the program with a deeper understanding of herself that became even deeper as she explored her relationship with her faith. She came to believe that everything she had gone through had a purpose — to help her understand others who were struggling and help them feel less alone.

“God, he had me then. He has me now,” she said. “In my darkest moments, in my darkest times, where I felt lonely, I felt like I had no one, he was still there with me and the reason why I’m still alive today.”

Rolly Orebote, a preacher and spiritual mentor based in London, remembers meeting Lawal through Instagram about four years ago. She could tell how much the young girl was struggling, she said, but over the past few years, she has been amazed at the person she has become.

“When I first met Sister Mary, she was a totally different person. Someone that was not understood, someone that didn’t have confidence in herself,” Orebote said. “I can’t really say how impressed and how proud of her that I am, because she’s grown so much in such a short space of time.”

Now, Lawal is well-practiced at sharing her story. In 2023, she addressed lawmakers in the Maryland General Assembly to ask them to fully fund the 988 hotline. She’s also helped facilitate support groups for NAMI and regularly volunteers to speak with journalists about mental health issues. As a psychology student at Prince George’s Community College, she’s not quite sure yet whether she wants to continue her studies and become a therapist or stay in advocacy.

Whatever Lawal decides to do, her father said, she is going to help many people. She’s taught him a lot about mental health, he said. Now, when he meets a parent whose child is struggling with their mental health, he knows how to talk to them about it — and helps them figure out how to support their child.

“She is amazing. Amazing,” he said of his daughter. “She can tell her story anywhere. She is not ashamed. She’s bold. I’m really proud of her.”

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How to prevent or at least slow developing ‘dead butt syndrome’

• September 24, 2024

Morayo Ogunbayo | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — Its name might sound funny, but its long-term effects are no laughing matter. “Dead butt syndrome,” an affliction that once targeted athletes, is now a major cause of pain and discomfort among people who sit at a desk for hours a day.

The name refers to a serious weakening in one of the gluteal muscles, and while the early symptoms can lead to pain in the lower back and muscles, which in the long term can affect quality of life.

What is ‘dead butt syndrome’?

Gluteus medius tendinosis, often referred to as gluteal tendinopathy, is a tendon disorder that manifests in the hip and buttocks area, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The condition causes tendon tissue to break down or deteriorate and is a common cause of hip pain.

Although it can affect anyone, it is more in women past the age of menopause. Runners, skiers and dancers are also more prone to this affliction.

It is most typically caused by putting too much pressure on those tendons through physical activity or through tendon compression from an accident.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, excess pressure from weight gain or obesity can also aid in gluteal tendinopathy.

The cause of the condition, however, is underuse of these tendons through inactivity or a generally sedentary lifestyle.

How do you know if you have ‘dead butt syndrome’?

Symptoms of “dead butt syndrome” most commonly manifest as moderate hip pain, according to the Cleveland Clinic. This pain may occur while walking upstairs or up an incline, lying on your side, sitting for a prolonged time, or standing on one leg.

One alarming sign may be if you start to feel hip pain while getting out of bed each morning.

Gluteal tendinopathy can be diagnosed through a symptom evaluation with a health care provider, which may lead to an MRI or ultrasound to check the affected area.

What are the long-term effects?

Long-term, gluteal tendinopathy may cause common signs of aging earlier than you would like, including severe and chronic pain in the lower body, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Fatigue and irritability are also possible if the chronic pain begins to affect your sleep each night.

How can it be prevented or stopped?

The good news is there are ways to prevent this from happening to you. Avoiding repetitive activities that focus on the hips is a good way to start, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Even in common exercises like running or hiking, it is good to take a break when you feel undue pain in that region of your body.

The Cleveland Clinic also recommends lifting weights to strengthen the hips and prevent this condition in the long term. Yoga and other stretching exercises are a good idea to keep the lower body flexible.

Another tip is to change the way you sit each day during work or even just while relaxing. According to Dr. Robert Trasolini, an orthopedic surgeon, posture is important.

“Sitting with an arched back or slouching at your desk can put significant pressure on your deep butt muscles as well as your lower back,” he told People magazine.

If these symptoms have already begun for you, Trasolini has advice on how to slow or stop the condition. He recommends getting up every 30 minutes at work and going for a quick walk, just to reset the lower body.

“Set an alarm every 30 minutes, get up stretch every hour, take a short walk for between three and five minutes. Those allow the muscle to respond and get this thing stronger,” he told People.

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