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Fixing Leg Numbness, Back Pain, Flank Pain, Knee Pain, Nerve Pain, Three Unhealthy Surgeries, Part I
In this post, Bernie, an 80 year old retired photographer tells how he was signed up to take my "fix your back pain" workshop in 2005, but was convinced by his doctors that nothing but surgery would help. After "completely successful" surgery, his...
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Hyperbarics for Diabetic Foot Injury
It is estimated that every 30 seconds someone in the world has their foot amputated because of a diabetic foot ulcer. Reduced blood supply to the feet and lower legs in people with diabetes delays wound healing and increases infection and chance o...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 5.2 - Medicine and War
Thank You Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 2, guest hosted this week by Monash Medical Student.The theme was posts concerning "Medicine and War."In a hospital Grand Rounds is a lecture to instruct physicians. On the web, it is a post with a collection of t...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 5.1
Thank You Grand Rounds 5.1, guest hosted this week by Dr. Val Jones at KevinMD and Emergiblog. This Grand Rounds was "The historic, 5th year anniversary of Grand Rounds."Grand Rounds is a web collection of notable medical posts from the previous w...
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Asian Fitness and Exercise
Tomorrow in the early morning, we leave to go home to Asia. For the next two months I will be posting on healthy exercise for long flights, better stretches for long sitting and travel, the training exercises of Thailand's national sport Muay Thai...
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Thank You Grand Rounds 6.13 - Coming Together
Thank You Dr. Nancy Brown, our own Healthline Teen Health blogger, for hosting Grand Rounds Vol 6 number 13 this week, and including my Fast Fitness Contest for Children (and Everyone) To Learn What They Live.On the web, Grand Rounds is a collecti...
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Simulation Suit To Feel the Pain of Osteoarthritis
A BBC news article reported on a suit that gives wearers a "real life" insight into the pain and impaired quality-of-life associated with osteoarthritis (OA). The suit costs £20,000 and was developed by Loughborough University. They wrote: "The JO...
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Common Exercises Teach Bad Bending
I teach martial arts, yoga, and other classes at gyms on evenings and Saturdays. This morning I watched the class before mine. The music was loud. I remembered the saying "If it's too loud, you're too old."When you read the following, remember tha...
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Sixteen Miles of Cold Water
A physician in New Zealand wrote that he is preparing to swim Cook Strait, the body of water separating the north and south islands of New Zealand, next February. The Strait is 26 km wide (16 statute miles). It may take him anywhere from 8 to 15 h...
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Hamstring to Quadriceps Ratios Not the Answer in Knee Injury
A common myth is that injury comes from "muscle imbalance" in the thigh from too much strength in the quadriceps muscles over the hamstring muscles.Early studies showed poor ratios of quad to hamstring strength. It was concluded that because of th...
