Adaptive Footwear Can Aid Comfort and Joint Health While Helping You Prevent Falls
While the average person is unlikely to do high jumps or run marathons, even daily life can wear out our joints. Over time, this wear may become apparent through pain. Age aside, diseases such as arthritis can eat away at our joints and cause inflammation, as well. The result of these assaults can be damaged hips and knees, and malformed feet and toes. Wise people learn that supportive, adjustable footwear can make or break our day, and that’s where Silverts can help.
Extra wide for inflamed and non-aligned toes: The pressure of shoes on sore or twisted joints can force even people who once had narrow feet into sandals ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 28, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Does Surviving The Plague Mean You Will Eventually Contract An Autoimmune Disease?
BY MIKE MAGEE
This Fall, I am teaching a 4-week course on “How Epidemics Have Shaped Our World” at the President’s College at the University of Hartford. It is, of course a timely topic, but also personally unnerving as we complete a third year under the shadow of Covid-19.
Where does one begin on a topic such as this? Yale historian, Frank M. Snowden, in his book “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present”, made his intentions obvious. He would begin with the plaque. Why? His answer, “The word ‘plague’ will always be synonymous with ‘terror’”, and especially references:
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Source: The Health Care Blog - October 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Autoimmune. Disease Mike Magee Plague Source Type: blogs
What Could You Do With Cheap Genome Sequencing Now?
Genome sequencing does definitely not equal fortune telling: it cannot predict how long you will live or what your body mass index will look like. However, it can tell you a lot about your sensitivity to drugs, your family history or whether you are a carrier of monogenic conditions.
After the Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago (for a whopping $2.7 billion), the dream was to be able to sequence a person’s genome for 1000 USD. After this became feasible, the next dream was to make it even cheaper: now it costs around 200 USD after Illumina’s innovation came to life.
What is the next dream? To...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine DNA dna testing Genetic testing genetics Genome Healthcare Innovation gc3 genome sequencing Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 17th 2022
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 15th October, 2022.
This article uses the one that divides providers into groups depending on the life cycle stage the clinic is at the given moment. According to this classification, medical providers fall into three groups:BeginnersGrowing clinicsWell-established providersHealth care providers are business entities, so their life cycle, like that of any business, consists of the early stage or launch, growth and maturity. At each stage, providers have different priorities and goals, and the choice of medical software solutions should be made accordingly.Medical software for beginnersThe launch phase can be tough. At this stage, the profits ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Mitochondrial Stress Provokes Inflammation via Fragments of Mitochondrial DNA
A large body of evidence links mitochondrial dysfunction with chronic inflammation. These are both features of aging, but it appears that dysfunctional, stressed mitochondria are a meaningful cause of inflammatory signaling. Mitochondria can generate molecular fragments, such as pieces of mitochondrial DNA, that are recognized as potentially threatening by the innate immune system. These damage-associated molecular patterns are present in much greater amounts in old tissues, and the immune system reacts to them to produce lasting, unresolved inflammation, harmful to tissue function rather than protective.
In today's...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
How is thyroid linked to heart disease? Cardiology Basics
Disorders of thyroid gland can cause heart disease in multiple ways. Heart disease can occur with both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. In hyperthyroidism, heart rate increases and there is a hyperdynamic circulatory state which can lead to high output cardiac failure. Unlike in the usual congestive heart failure in which the extremities are cold due to vasoconstriction, in heart failure due to hyperthyroidism, the extremities are warm. Instead of a low volume pulse in usual heart failure, thyrotoxic heart failure has a high volume pulse.
Another important cardiac problem in hyperthyroidism is atrial fibrillation with ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Adaptive Footwear Can Aid Comfort and Joint Health While Helping You Prevent Falls
While the average person is unlikely to do high jumps or run marathons, even daily life can wear out our joints. Over time, this wear may become apparent through pain. Age aside, diseases such as arthritis can eat away at our joints and cause inflammation, as well. The result of these assaults can be damaged hips and knees, and malformed feet and toes. Wise people learn that supportive, adjustable footwear can make or break our day, and that’s where Silverts can help.
Extra wide for inflamed and non-aligned toes: The pressure of shoes on sore or twisted joints can force even people who once had narrow feet into sandal...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 30, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Why expand telemedicine for arthritis patients?
One in four Americans carry a diagnosis of arthritis, a significant cause of limitation from basic life activities to disability. One in ten adults has to limit their activities due to pain caused by this disease. Yet, a massive shortage of specialist physicians and geographical and licensure barriers restrict access to specialized medical care, especially
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Why expand telemedicine for arthritis patients? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Diana M. Girnita, MD, PhD Tags: Tech Health IT Mobile health Source Type: blogs
9 Tips to Manage Stress for Better Health
Photo credit Jared Rice
Stress is considered a risk factor for dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s. Stress is also a risk factor for stroke and heart attack as well as a trigger for many diseases from arthritis to psoriasis. Obviously, limiting stress in our lives is a good idea. But how? Simply living what we call modern life seems to make stress the norm. How can you adjust your life (just a little) to help manage stress? While much may be out of your control, some things can be managed, if only in stages.
See the complete slideshow on HealthCentral for tips on learning to manage our caregiving st...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 26, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Focus on the rheumatoid arthritis patient, not on their disease
Medical school, residency, and fellowship taught me pathophysiology, diagnosis, and the most advanced treatments for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. As an attending physician, seeing my own patients, I noticed that targeted therapy is not able to control the disease in all patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The results varied. I could not stop asking myself,
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Focus on the rheumatoid arthritis patient, not on their disease originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Diana M. Girnita, MD, PhD Tags: Conditions Rheumatology Source Type: blogs
Assessment of right ventricular diastolic function
Assessment of right ventricular diastolic function is often done by echocardiography, though not as commonly as for the left ventricle. An RV focussed apical four chamber view is used for the assessment of right ventricle. In RV focussed view, transducer is adjusted from the standard apical four chamber view to have right ventricle in the centre of the image than the usual image centered on the left ventricle. The left ventricular outflow tract should not come into the view and left ventricular apex should remain at the top of the image sector. In this adjusted view, the entire right ventricular free wall should be visibl...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 13, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Echocardiography Source Type: blogs
The key to living with less pain is understanding what relieves pain, why it works, and how to achieve it
An excerpt from The Pain Solution: 5 Steps to Relieve and Prevent Back Pain, Muscle Pain, and Joint Pain without Medication. In a one-year period, more than 54 percent of Americans report musculoskeletal pain, including arthritis pain, low back pain, and neck pain. The search for relief has created a different kind of epidemic. The opioids
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The key to living with less pain is understanding what relieves pain, why it works, and how to achieve it originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Saloni Sharma, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Adaptive Footwear Can Aid Comfort and Joint Health While Helping You Prevent Falls
While the average person is unlikely to do high jumps or run marathons, even daily life can wear out our joints. Over time, this wear may become apparent through pain. Age aside, diseases such as arthritis can eat away at our joints and cause inflammation, as well. The result of these assaults can be damaged hips and knees, and malformed feet and toes. Wise people learn that supportive, adjustable footwear can make or break our day, and that’s where Silverts can help.
Extra wide for inflamed and non-aligned toes: The pressure of shoes on sore or twisted joints can force even people who once had narrow feet ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 29, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
How To Communicate with Your Older Parents So They Hear You
“My mom is 81 and lives alone in her condo,” Judy Hanson writes. “Her arthritis is painful, but she gets around with a walker. Her mind is okay for now, though she is sometimes forgetful. I also feel that she is lonely.
“I’m worried about her safety and have been telling her for several years that she needs help,” she continues. “I’m not proud to say that I’ve stooped to yelling at her, but I have done it. I hate the thought of her falling and not having help, and I also think she’d be happier with more company. There’s a nice assisted living close by me so that’s where I want her to move. Will she...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 23, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
