Tag: distance

National campaigns, health practitioners and even major corporations are encouraging Americans to walk longer.Unfortunately, many sedentary individuals who start walking programs quickly develop foot issues.Almost sixty million Americans have foot problems and many grow them after starting a new exercise regimen.A foot injury can take weeks, even months to heal and many will gain more weight during this healing period...

Distance education isn't new, and can be traced as far back as the first century.The Apostle Paul wrote to the early Christian churches, instructing them from a distance (even when he was under 'house arrest' in Rome).This was probably the first type of'correspondence course', which was the sole way of learning at a distance until the advent of the telephone.Today, distance education and in particular online medical assistant instruction calls upon an impressive range of technologies to enable medical assistant instructor and the medical assistant student who are separated by distance to communicate with each other either in real time (synchronous) or delayed time (asynchronous)...