Effective tips to relieve stress and to avoid it
Most occur painful tension in the shoulder-neck region or in the lumbar area and are related with cramps and overexertion of muscles. In the treatment, it is important above all to break the vicious cycle of tensions, relieving postures and resulting new tensions in time. Among the most common causes of painful tension include not only one-sided stress and bad posture, such as occur for example by prolonged computer work, but also stress, drafts and poor sleeping conditions. The overexertion of certain muscle groups leads to a spasticity and stiffness of affected muscles that respond to strain with pain. By relieving postures in which the painful movements are avoided, those affected try the pain within limits. However, this posture often leads to even more painful tension. Here then often helps just going to the doctor, who treated with anti-inflammatory...
Read MoreTinnitus – ringing in the ear when making sick
Many people have experienced tinnitus. Usually they disappear just as quickly as they occur. The whistling, rattling or pinging nests in one ear, an ENT doctor should immediately be consulted. If an organic cause is found, the tinnitus can be removed relatively quickly. Sometimes you can not determine specific causes and day and night suffer from noise, which can only hear themselves.It called subjective tinnitus disease, but it is not a disease as such, but merely a symptom of unknown origin. Especially at night and at rest pollute the unexplained ear noises that can be roughly broken down into four different severities: Grade 1: The ears are indeed perceived, but not significantly affect. Grade 2: In the silence, the bothersome ringing in the ears, which are aggravated by stress or other loads. Grade 3: The ears are so disturbing,...
Read MoreHypertension causes
Unfortunately, neither sex nor boys offer safe protection against hypertension. The most insidious thing about this now became called endemic disease, when is that early warning signs absent. Although the risk for high blood pressure with age significantly increases, elevated blood pressure values may also much earlier, occurring already in childhood or adolescence. In this case also the type of hypertension plays a role. Suffer from the so-called primary hypertension, among which about 80 to 90 percent of patients who can no direct unique Hypertension Cause identify. However, there are a number of risk factors such as genetic predisposition, obesity, diabetes, high salt intake and unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity. In contrast, at 10 to 20 percent of all cases another underlying disease before, which has a secondary hypertension result. Adrenal disorders and hormonal disorders, certain medications such as...
Read MoreHeel spurs – help specific exercises
If the first steps in the morning after getting up from the pointed, stabbing pain in the foot are accompanied, a heel spur may be the cause. This usually only a few millimeters long, spine-like bone exostosis of the heel bone can be found in approximately one in five adults over 50. However, the heel spur itself is not cause of the pain that will be felt by many of those affected, as if they had entered into a nail or glass. Only when the Bone exostosis leads to inflammation of the surrounding tissue, the pain set and force a break or toe walking. Most the heel spur forms on the underside of the heel bone due to overload, stress faced or wrong shoes. Not only under the heel, but also at the base of the Achilles tendon can...
Read MoreTension headaches – which helps fast and what the long term?
Whether suffered under heavy mental stress, when noise, due to lack of sleep or a cramped position, almost all of us have from tension headaches. We’re talking about the dull pressure or pain that slowly but steadily spreading over the entire head. As a rule, are particularly stressful days when a clear head is needed. But just then make the pulling or pressing pain , and it is believed the head was stuck in a vise. Here is quick help asked. Often used as the first-line non-prescription painkillers from pharmacies. In addition to drugs such as aspirin or paracetamol and naproxen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, or a combination of aspirin, acetaminophen and caffeine act quickly and well to tension headaches. However, the use of these funds is not without risk, because like any medicine also painkillers have side effects. In addition,...
Read MoreGlaucoma – threatened blindness
Glaucoma is still a dreaded cause of blindness in US. Diagnosed by physicians as glaucoma can be completely painless recognized and treated by an examination by an ophthalmologist. But even accidental damage to the optic nerve is extremely dangerous. Generally, Glaucoma is a group of various eye diseases referred associated with the intraocular pressure and the destruction of the optic nerve. The most common form of glaucoma, is the open-angle glaucoma, making themselves for a long time no noticeable, when symptoms don’t show up. Only when the optic nerve is already severely damaged, it comes to visual field or a reduced contrast sensitivity. Trigger for the destruction of the optic nerve is usually a over the years increased intraocular pressure. This pressure is built up by the aqueous humor in the eye, which was formed in the posterior chamber...
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