Posted by admin on February 20th, 2010
The injuries we pick up when playing sports fall into two main classes. In contact sports, there are serious risks of broken bones, torn tendons or ligaments, or strains. The other less physical sports leave it to the players to damage themselves by repeating the same muscle movements excessively. So tennis, badminton and squash players find repetitive strain injury to their elbows. Runners damage their knees. Focussing on the muscle injuries, strains and tears always have the same pattern. You damage the tissue in the muscles or ligaments, and this produces inflammation. Pain, swelling and loss of function follow. For a professional athlete, being unable to turn out for the team or to play the next big tournament can have serious financial implications. Doctors who specialize in sports injuries are therefore employed by all the top teams in football, baseball and soccer. The plan is always to get the stars back on the field again as quickly as possible. Except this can be controversial because, sometimes, treatment is accelerated for a particular match rather than for the benefit of the player’s long-term career. Many top players have had their careers cut short by knee injuries when their teams owner’s were too ambitious for success. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2010
There are a greater number of people who are choosing to take marijuana nowadays. This is even more common for younger individuals. However, more people are also taking marijuana to alleviate their chronic pain symptoms. Whether you choose to take marijuana to help you overcome pain or strictly for pleasure, you may be required to pass marijuana drug testing at some point in your life. That’s why it’s important to learn how to pass a drug test.
Marijuana includes an active component called tetrahydrocannabinol or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is stored in your system. They are stored within your fat cells, and will appear if you take a marijuana drug test. Hence, it’s essential that you learn how to flush all of the THC from your system in order to successfully pass marijuana drug test options. This may not seem like an easy task, given that traces of the drug can remain in your body for up to 2 months.
The first step is to include some of the popular home remedies that supposedly help people pass a marijuana drug test. Many people claim that drinking lots of water will remove the THC from your system. The recommendation is often as much as 2 quarts of water daily before taking the drug test. The problem is that this is not a viable solution. Even though the levels of THC will be lower, traces of it will remain in your fat cells. You may also talk to people who recommend drinking a lot of iced tea, vinegar, green tea, coffee or cranberry juice. The problem is that these methods just don’t work, and they will not guarantee you the results you want. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 17th, 2010
This is one of the “mystery” diseases or disorders. Those that have it report exhaustion and a constant dull ache but, no matter how many tests are performed, your doctor says there’s nothing wrong with you. The tests come back “normal”. This is frustrating and annoying because the traditional view is then to class you as a psych case. Like that’s a constructive response. So let’s start with what we know. No-one knows what triggers it. People say it comes on after both physical injuries and emotional traumas. Some researchers speculate that people can be genetically predisposed to develop it. Others believe it is a viral disease. No matter what its cause, the result is greatly increased sensitivity to pain. It’s as if the brain is overreacting to pain signals.
Once it appears, it’s a chronic condition with long-lasting pain in the muscles, ligaments and tendons. It particularly affects the back of the head, the neck, shoulders and upper chest, and the major joints in the arms, hips and legs. Your body is also likely to develop tender spots where even the slightest of touches causes pain. You lose stamina, feeling exhausted after any form of activity, no matter how trivial. Sleep is disrupted and people wake not feeling properly rested, There seems to be a gender difference with women more likely than men to develop the disorder. Estimates of the number of people who have this set of symptoms varies but the best guess is that it affects about 2% of the adult population in the US. Read the rest of this entry »
