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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Potsure can affect your health!
How does posture affect your health?
Stand up straight! Stop slouching! We’ve all seen someone slouched over with their head forward and a hump back, but having good posture does more than help us look fantastic! It’s also a big part of our health. So what’s the big deal?
Good posture is more than just standing up straight. It consists of ideal alignment of the hips, spinal joints, shoulders, neck and head. When working well, this allows the force of gravity to travel down the body evenly. On the flip side, poor posture is when your spine strays from this ideal alignment. This begins to stress the muscles, bones and ligaments of the spine and causes the brain to work harder to hold you upright! For every centimetre your head moves forward, 2kg of effective weight is added to your head. In practice, this commonly causes strain on the muscles, joints, ligaments and nerves of the neck and shoulders. This can also result in the onset of tension like headaches as well as many other aches and pains. Unfortunately, in the long term, poor posture can promote accelerated aging of the spinal joints.
And it’s not just muscles and ligaments that are damaged with poor posture. With forward head carriage (where the head is in front of your shoulders), you can lose up to 30% of your vital lung capacity (the amount of air you can breathe in). Not the best if you’re an athlete or someone who breaks a sweat.
The good news is that good posture is more energy efficient and less demanding on the muscles, and has also been linked to increased mental performance, attention, memory and thinking.
Can posture improve your mood and how you feel each day?
Yes! Our brain is wired up so that our posture reflects how we feel, and how we feel can be seen in our posture. Let me explain this; Shoulders rounded, head forward and slumped. This type of posture actually causes your brain to think you’re unhappy (even if you’re not). Interestingly, if you are unhappy, you are also more likely to adopt this slumped posture. On the up side of this, if you have a posture that is upright, you are more likely to feel happier and better about yourself (not to mention, look happier as well). So if you’re feeling down, try to pull your shoulders back, put your chin up and you will find that you can trick you brain to help you feel better again. Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion?
How important is good posture?
Totally important! Sitting and standing with ideal alignment lets the body work with less
fatigue and strain on your body’s ligaments and muscles. Good posture also helps us look and feel better about ourselves! Being aware of our posture, especially at an early age helps prevent the permanent changes that can occur if poor posture is left uncorrected for many years.
What are posture’s main benefits?
1. Less work for our joints, muscles and brain
2. Improved mental wellbeing
3. Better strength and flexibility
4. Fewer postural related injuries
Dr Ryan’s Hot Tips!
Roll your shoulders back, raise your chin and elongate your neck. This is a great break from school work or when you’ve been at the computer for a while.
The most powerful mood effects take place when you use both facial expressions and posture. So stand up straight and smile. You’ll feel great!
Submitted by Dr Ryan Hislop – Chiropractor.
Stand up straight! Stop slouching! We’ve all seen someone slouched over with their head forward and a hump back, but having good posture does more than help us look fantastic! It’s also a big part of our health. So what’s the big deal?
Good posture is more than just standing up straight. It consists of ideal alignment of the hips, spinal joints, shoulders, neck and head. When working well, this allows the force of gravity to travel down the body evenly. On the flip side, poor posture is when your spine strays from this ideal alignment. This begins to stress the muscles, bones and ligaments of the spine and causes the brain to work harder to hold you upright! For every centimetre your head moves forward, 2kg of effective weight is added to your head. In practice, this commonly causes strain on the muscles, joints, ligaments and nerves of the neck and shoulders. This can also result in the onset of tension like headaches as well as many other aches and pains. Unfortunately, in the long term, poor posture can promote accelerated aging of the spinal joints.
And it’s not just muscles and ligaments that are damaged with poor posture. With forward head carriage (where the head is in front of your shoulders), you can lose up to 30% of your vital lung capacity (the amount of air you can breathe in). Not the best if you’re an athlete or someone who breaks a sweat.
The good news is that good posture is more energy efficient and less demanding on the muscles, and has also been linked to increased mental performance, attention, memory and thinking.
Can posture improve your mood and how you feel each day?
Yes! Our brain is wired up so that our posture reflects how we feel, and how we feel can be seen in our posture. Let me explain this; Shoulders rounded, head forward and slumped. This type of posture actually causes your brain to think you’re unhappy (even if you’re not). Interestingly, if you are unhappy, you are also more likely to adopt this slumped posture. On the up side of this, if you have a posture that is upright, you are more likely to feel happier and better about yourself (not to mention, look happier as well). So if you’re feeling down, try to pull your shoulders back, put your chin up and you will find that you can trick you brain to help you feel better again. Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion?
How important is good posture?
Totally important! Sitting and standing with ideal alignment lets the body work with less
fatigue and strain on your body’s ligaments and muscles. Good posture also helps us look and feel better about ourselves! Being aware of our posture, especially at an early age helps prevent the permanent changes that can occur if poor posture is left uncorrected for many years.
What are posture’s main benefits?
1. Less work for our joints, muscles and brain
2. Improved mental wellbeing
3. Better strength and flexibility
4. Fewer postural related injuries
Dr Ryan’s Hot Tips!
Roll your shoulders back, raise your chin and elongate your neck. This is a great break from school work or when you’ve been at the computer for a while.
The most powerful mood effects take place when you use both facial expressions and posture. So stand up straight and smile. You’ll feel great!
Submitted by Dr Ryan Hislop – Chiropractor.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Breathe For Better Health- How?
Did you Know?
Breathing correctly is essential for life. Proper breathing is readily observed in the newborn but as we grow older, day to day stressors and tension in our lives hamper this normal pattern, resulting in a chronic and largely unfavorable breathing pattern.
How on earth do we manage to do something so vital, so poorly and detrimental?
Ideal breathing is due to the contraction and relaxation of a sheet of muscle that extends across the bottom of the rib cage known as the diaphragm. As the diaphragm relaxes and contracts (this can be easily seen by the rising and falling of the abdomen when we breathe) air is pulled in and pushed out of the lungs. When humans undergo stress, (physical, biochemical or emotional stressors) their breathing pattern changes. Often this is seen by us using our chest and shoulders, rather than our diaphragm to breathe, which over time causes the body to develop this poor pattern.
This altered pattern is known as paradoxical breathing (or reverse breathing). This is ultimately considered a form of moderate hyperventilation which results in the disequilibrium between oxygen and carbon dioxide in our body. The decrease in carbon dioxide causes the nervous system to become over excitable, hence it is not uncommon to hear complaints of an increase in feelings of stress or anxiety which cause muscular tension and spasm, fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations and insomnia for example. Along with these signs and symptoms, it is also understood that there is an increased sensitivity of the pain receptors which, in addition to the aforementioned signs and symptoms, is a major contributor to the development of chronic pain syndromes.
Muscles in the neck and shoulders were designed for the sole purpose of movement, thus the much smaller and less efficient muscles of respiration in the upper chest, shoulders and neck having to work 10 to 20 times per minute fatigue quickly. We see this commonly leading to pain and tightness in these muscles.
The phases of inspiration and expiration has a natural relaxing effect. Deep and slow breathing increases blood oxygenation and furthermore allows for the reduction in levels of muscle tension, anxiety and fatigue. At Hands On we teach you how to breathe in this efficient manner so you can use this during your week to control and reverse the negative effects of stress on the body.
If patterns of breathing have been altered for any length of time, our clinical experience suggests that correcting the musculoskeletal regions associated with the breathing process may be required before the correct patterns of breathing can be restored. To have your breathing assessed or to simply learn more about correct breathing techniques and the benefits they can offer your general health and well being, simply ask any of the practitioners at Hands On, or feel free to contact us to arrange an appointment.
Ryan Hislop- Hands On Chiropractor
info@handsonsydney.com.au
Breathing correctly is essential for life. Proper breathing is readily observed in the newborn but as we grow older, day to day stressors and tension in our lives hamper this normal pattern, resulting in a chronic and largely unfavorable breathing pattern.
How on earth do we manage to do something so vital, so poorly and detrimental?
Ideal breathing is due to the contraction and relaxation of a sheet of muscle that extends across the bottom of the rib cage known as the diaphragm. As the diaphragm relaxes and contracts (this can be easily seen by the rising and falling of the abdomen when we breathe) air is pulled in and pushed out of the lungs. When humans undergo stress, (physical, biochemical or emotional stressors) their breathing pattern changes. Often this is seen by us using our chest and shoulders, rather than our diaphragm to breathe, which over time causes the body to develop this poor pattern.
This altered pattern is known as paradoxical breathing (or reverse breathing). This is ultimately considered a form of moderate hyperventilation which results in the disequilibrium between oxygen and carbon dioxide in our body. The decrease in carbon dioxide causes the nervous system to become over excitable, hence it is not uncommon to hear complaints of an increase in feelings of stress or anxiety which cause muscular tension and spasm, fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations and insomnia for example. Along with these signs and symptoms, it is also understood that there is an increased sensitivity of the pain receptors which, in addition to the aforementioned signs and symptoms, is a major contributor to the development of chronic pain syndromes.
Muscles in the neck and shoulders were designed for the sole purpose of movement, thus the much smaller and less efficient muscles of respiration in the upper chest, shoulders and neck having to work 10 to 20 times per minute fatigue quickly. We see this commonly leading to pain and tightness in these muscles.
The phases of inspiration and expiration has a natural relaxing effect. Deep and slow breathing increases blood oxygenation and furthermore allows for the reduction in levels of muscle tension, anxiety and fatigue. At Hands On we teach you how to breathe in this efficient manner so you can use this during your week to control and reverse the negative effects of stress on the body.
If patterns of breathing have been altered for any length of time, our clinical experience suggests that correcting the musculoskeletal regions associated with the breathing process may be required before the correct patterns of breathing can be restored. To have your breathing assessed or to simply learn more about correct breathing techniques and the benefits they can offer your general health and well being, simply ask any of the practitioners at Hands On, or feel free to contact us to arrange an appointment.
Ryan Hislop- Hands On Chiropractor
info@handsonsydney.com.au
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Hydrate for healthy life
Ensure you are consuming an adequete amount of water daily, urine colour can be a good indication of hydration levels, dark urine can indicate that you are dehydrated.
Drink fresh juices or teas if you find water a little 'boring'. In addition increase your intake of fresh fruit and vegetables that contain a high water levels. Obvious factors can mean you will need to increase your water intake, exercise, weather...
How much water are you drinking daily?
Drink fresh juices or teas if you find water a little 'boring'. In addition increase your intake of fresh fruit and vegetables that contain a high water levels. Obvious factors can mean you will need to increase your water intake, exercise, weather...
How much water are you drinking daily?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
What is Hepatitis
Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar (ἧπαρ), the root being hepat- (ἡπατ-), meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation" (c. 1727).[1] The condition can be self-limiting (healing on its own) or can progress to fibrosis (scarring) and cirrhosis.
Hepatitis may occur with limited or no symptoms, but often leads to jaundice, anorexia (poor appetite) and malaise. Hepatitis is acute when it lasts less than six months and chronic when it persists longer. A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide, but it can also be due to toxins (notably alcohol, certain medications, some industrial organic solvents and plants), other infections and autoimmune diseases.
For more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis
Hepatitis may occur with limited or no symptoms, but often leads to jaundice, anorexia (poor appetite) and malaise. Hepatitis is acute when it lasts less than six months and chronic when it persists longer. A group of viruses known as the hepatitis viruses cause most cases of hepatitis worldwide, but it can also be due to toxins (notably alcohol, certain medications, some industrial organic solvents and plants), other infections and autoimmune diseases.
For more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis
Thursday, July 14, 2011
What is Diabetes?
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease. This means that it lasts for a long time, often for someone's whole life.
For our bodies to work properly we need to convert glucose (sugar) from food into energy. A hormone called insulin is essential for the conversion of glucose into energy.
In people with diabetes, insulin is no longer produced or not produced in sufficient amounts by the body.
So when people with diabetes eat glucose, which is in foods such as breads, cereals, fruit and starchy vegetables, legumes, milk, yoghurt and sweets, it can’t be converted into energy. Instead of being turned into energy the glucose stays in the blood. This is why blood glucose levels are higher in people with diabetes.
Glucose is carried around your body in your blood. Your blood glucose level is called glycaemia.
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/
For more information go to http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/
Diabetes is a chronic disease. This means that it lasts for a long time, often for someone's whole life.
For our bodies to work properly we need to convert glucose (sugar) from food into energy. A hormone called insulin is essential for the conversion of glucose into energy.
In people with diabetes, insulin is no longer produced or not produced in sufficient amounts by the body.
So when people with diabetes eat glucose, which is in foods such as breads, cereals, fruit and starchy vegetables, legumes, milk, yoghurt and sweets, it can’t be converted into energy. Instead of being turned into energy the glucose stays in the blood. This is why blood glucose levels are higher in people with diabetes.
Glucose is carried around your body in your blood. Your blood glucose level is called glycaemia.
http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/
For more information go to http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/
Monday, June 27, 2011
Diabetes rates on the increase in the Western World
Our lifestyles are evolving more rapidly than our human being. Great health takes a dedication and NOW is the time to be absolutely committed. Learn more with the following example...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/26/3253811.htm?site=news
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
NSW Health Recognises Schizophrenia Awareness Week!
NSW Health Director of Mental Health David McGrath said Schizophrenia Awareness Week is part of an overall commitment to improve the lives of people living with schizophrenia.
“We are committed to providing easy and supportive access to treatment and services for people with schizophrenia,” Mr McGrath said.
“We’ve invested significant levels of funding to support the Schizophrenia Research Institute drive a proactive research agenda to prevent and cure schizophrenia.”
NSW Health provides funds to the Schizophrenia Research Institute to support world renowned schizophrenia research led by Professor Cyndi Shannon-Weickert.
“Professor Shannon-Weickert’s research focuses on the developmental biology of schizophrenia, including clinical trials examining whether the use of hormone therapy can improve outcomes for people with schizophrenia,” said Mr McGrath.
For more infomation click the link below
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/2011/20110517_00.html
“We are committed to providing easy and supportive access to treatment and services for people with schizophrenia,” Mr McGrath said.
“We’ve invested significant levels of funding to support the Schizophrenia Research Institute drive a proactive research agenda to prevent and cure schizophrenia.”
NSW Health provides funds to the Schizophrenia Research Institute to support world renowned schizophrenia research led by Professor Cyndi Shannon-Weickert.
“Professor Shannon-Weickert’s research focuses on the developmental biology of schizophrenia, including clinical trials examining whether the use of hormone therapy can improve outcomes for people with schizophrenia,” said Mr McGrath.
For more infomation click the link below
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/2011/20110517_00.html
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Bowel cancer kills almost 80 people a week
Bowel cancer is a malignant growth that develops in the lining of the large bowel. Most bowel cancers develop from tiny growths called ‘polyps’. Not all polyps become cancerous.
Over time some polyps can become cancerous. Cancer can narrow and block the bowel or cause bleeding. In more advanced cases, the cancer can spread beyond the bowel to other organs.
As most bowel cancer start as polyps, all polyps should be removed to reduce your risk of developing the disease. Almost all polyps can be removed without an operation during the procedure of colonoscopy
Once removed from the bowel, the polyp can no longer develop into cancer. Even if a polyp develops into cancer, in its early stages it can be cured by surgery.
Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods –
•eat plenty of vegetables, legumes (dried beans, peas or lentils), fruits & cereals (breads, rice, pasta & noodles), preferably wholegrain.
•include lean meat, fish and poultry.
•include milks, yoghurts and cheeses. Reduced fat varieties should be chosen where possible.
•drink plenty of water.
Take care to -
•limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake.
•limit your intake of red meat and processed meat.
•choose foods low in salt.
•limit your alcohol intake if you choose to drink.
•consume only moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars.
And -
•quit smoking
Read more
http://www.bowelcanceraustralia.org/bca/
Over time some polyps can become cancerous. Cancer can narrow and block the bowel or cause bleeding. In more advanced cases, the cancer can spread beyond the bowel to other organs.
As most bowel cancer start as polyps, all polyps should be removed to reduce your risk of developing the disease. Almost all polyps can be removed without an operation during the procedure of colonoscopy
Once removed from the bowel, the polyp can no longer develop into cancer. Even if a polyp develops into cancer, in its early stages it can be cured by surgery.
Enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods –
•eat plenty of vegetables, legumes (dried beans, peas or lentils), fruits & cereals (breads, rice, pasta & noodles), preferably wholegrain.
•include lean meat, fish and poultry.
•include milks, yoghurts and cheeses. Reduced fat varieties should be chosen where possible.
•drink plenty of water.
Take care to -
•limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake.
•limit your intake of red meat and processed meat.
•choose foods low in salt.
•limit your alcohol intake if you choose to drink.
•consume only moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars.
And -
•quit smoking
Read more
http://www.bowelcanceraustralia.org/bca/
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