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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.
Tightness and Contractures in Cerebral Palsy: An Overview
Cerebral Palsy is a non-progressive motor disorder that occurs in about 2 to 3 live births per 1000. Patients will experience a variety of motor symptoms over their lifespan, as well as difficulties with speaking and swallowing. In particular, several children experience tightness and contractures in their limb muscles, which requires special treatment for Cerebral Palsy, to restore functionality. Here’s a quick guide as to what that may look like.
By Albertalice4 years ago in Longevity
Best natural way to cure hamstring injury
Changing the ice and heat after a muscle injury is an effective way to reduce inflammation and inflammation, promote blood flow, and speed up the healing process. Delaying ice treatment can lead to long-term recovery and cause the growth of tissue around the injury, preventing the entire range of movement of the injured muscle or muscle. During the first 24 to 48 hours, ice packs placed at least four times on the injured or dislocated muscles not only reduce inflammation and pain but also speed up the recovery process.
By Rashmi Dahal4 years ago in Longevity
Multiple Sclerosis And Depression: Decoding The Connection
Neurological disorders such as Autism, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neuron Disease, and Multiple Sclerosis have the potential to render a patient totally dependent on others. While providing that much-needed attention, caregivers usually focus on the physiological aspects of a disease, often ignoring the accompanying psychological needs of the patient. In this article, we will explain how Multiple Sclerosis, commonly known as MS, could also lead to depression. Let us start by understanding MS and its major symptoms.
By Albertalice4 years ago in Longevity
Facts Vs Fiction: Breaking 5 Myths About Autism
Imagine you’re lost in a foreign country. All you have on you is a guide book, but it’s written in a language you don’t understand. You try to ask people for directions, but most people don’t understand what you want. The ones who do tell you to refer to the guidebook, because everything you need to know is in there. It sounds pretty scary and frustrating, right? This is similar to how people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience the world every day. ASD is a spectrum of cognitive disorders related to brain development that starts in childhood and affects how a person perceives and understands the world around them. Because people with ASD experience the world in a unique way, they exhibit abnormal social behaviors and often have difficulty communicating with others. People who don’t have the condition may find it difficult to understand what it’s like living with ASD. This lack of understanding has lead to a lot of misinformation around the disorder. So let’s take a minute to clear the air, and bust five myths surrounding ASD — from Savant Syndrome to Stem Cell Therapy for Autism.
By Albertalice4 years ago in Longevity
Shocking Truth About Female Hair Loss
When you talk about genetic hair loss most people think about the most common form of hair loss: male-pattern baldness. This is the type of hair loss that is passed on genetically to offspring from their mothers. Most often the recipients of this type of hair loss are men, but sometimes the gene can result in female hair loss.
By optimuSPrime4 years ago in Longevity
8 Best Source Of Protein
Protein is an important part of a healthy diet. Proteins are made up of chemical 'building blocks' called amino acids. Your body uses amino acids to build and repair muscles and bones and to make hormones and enzymes. They can also be used as an energy source. Protein is found throughout the body—in muscle, bone, skin, hair, and virtually every other body part or tissue. It makes up the enzymes that power many chemical reactions and the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood. At least 10,000 different proteins make you what you are and keep you that way.
By optimuSPrime4 years ago in Longevity
5 Reasons Why Should You Eat Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate (also known as sour chocolate) is a form of chocolate containing cocoa solids and cocoa butter, without the milk or butter found in milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is stacked with supplements that can emphatically influence your wellbeing. Produced using the seed of the cacao tree, it's perhaps the best wellspring of cancer prevention agents you can discover. Studies show that dark chocolate can work on your wellbeing and lower the danger of heart disease. Dark chocolate contains phytonutrients called flavonoids, which are plant chemicals that act as antioxidants and may play a role in weight loss.
By optimuSPrime4 years ago in Longevity
Pulmonary Fibrosis, Ethnicity, and the Need for Organ Donation
This year marks the 25th anniversary of National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month, created to educate multiethnic communities about organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation, and encourage donor registration and family conversations about donation. People from communities of color make up nearly 60% of people who are waiting for lifesaving organs in the U.S., but only a third are registered donors.
By Jose Vazquez4 years ago in Longevity
Eliminate the Psychological Barrier in Chronic Prostatitis Ptients
Chronic prostatitis accounts for more than 30% of male genitourinary system diseases. Generally, it is difficult to cure the disease in a short time. Because it is harmful not only to the body but also to mental health, so, chronic prostatitis must be treated actively.
By Amanda Chou4 years ago in Longevity
How Loneliness Changes Across Your Lifetime
Request that somebody relate a period they felt desolate, and they'll without a doubt have a story to share. You may catch wind of the school green bean away from home interestingly. Or on the other hand the new mother taking care of her child in obscurity tranquility of 4 a.m.
By Mashud M Alfoyez 4 years ago in Longevity
