How Sleeping Well Affects Our Well Being
How important is sleeping? We spend almost 1/3rd of our entire lifetime doing nothing but laying still, sleeping. Our lives have become extremely fast-paced and time-dependent, as they say, “Time is money” so, is it really worth it to spend that much of time doing nothing but sleeping? It is better to dream or to …
How Cold Weather Affect Your Joints & Mood
It’s common to feel lazy & stiff whenever the winter arrives, it becomes harder to leave your cozy blanket behind and move on, do things you could easily do before but it doesn’t do you any good being in bed the whole day in fact people having chronic health problems like hypertension, asthma, arthritis, etc. …
Silent signs you have a Pelvic Floor Disorder
The pelvic floor consists of various structures, including muscles, ligaments, and tissues around the pelvic bones. The muscles support the pelvic floor from all sides. The patient may be asymptomatic initially, and especially, women may find reluctant to visit a healthcare professional. Nearly 41-50% of >40 yrs of age women demonstrate pelvic floor prolapse, however, …
How neck pain could be bad for your blood pressure?
The blood pressure is one of the major brain functions controlled by the brain along with many other functions, and neck musculature helps in controlling the blood pressure by sending neural signals to the brain. The blood pressure changes as we change positions from lying to sitting or standing position and vice versa. In neck …
Tendinitis Treatment and Physiotherapy
Tendon is a tissue that attaches muscle to the bone. It is flexible, tough, and fibrous and can withstand tension. Tendinitis is inflammation or irritation of a tendon. It can occur when a person overuses or injures a tendon while playing a sport. Usually linked to an acute injury with inflammation, Tendinitis can occur at …
No More Painful Steps: Arthritis a Joint Disorder
What is Arthritis? “Arthritis” means joint inflammation. Arthritis is often used to refer to any disorder that affects the joints. There are many types of arthritis, including osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, gout, juvenile arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis is the commonest one caused by wear and tear of joints especially weight-bearing joints. The older …
Sports Medicine: Niche and Unexplored
What is Sports Medicine? A specialty of medicine that is underutilized and unexplained to many. Sports Medicine is an amalgamation of various aspects of being physically and mentally fit. The wide field of sports medicine not only caters to the athletes but also to the young and old weekend warriors. It’s a fine blend of …
Why are young people suffering from Lower Back Pain?
More and more youngsters, aged between 18 and 24, are falling prey to back pain incidences. With the number of spine specialty appointments among the young working population of India rising from 25% to 31%, low back pain is no longer considered an ‘old person problem’ and has become a major health bane for the …
This friendship day gift yourself a new friend
We are the millennials, those who live less on food and more on technology. With the growing indispensability of technology at work, it is also becoming an intrinsic component of our daily lives where this generation literally wakes, bathes, eats, drives, and even sleeps (sic; which is minimal) with technology all around us. Nowadays, from …
How to Take Care of Life After Stroke
Stroke is becoming a critical cause of death in India, and those who survive this devastating brain injury, continue to live with disabilities. Rehabilitation care becomes of the highest importance for stroke patients to regain independence and quality of life. The effects of a stroke vary a lot from person to person. They range from …