If you have ever broken an arm and had to wear a cast or splint for a few weeks, you will be familiar with the alarming loss of muscle and uneasy feeling of weakness experienced after removing your cast. Image: In a research study, students with an immobilized left arm who trained their opposite wrist...
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Broke your arm? Exercise the other one to strengthen it
If you have ever broken an arm and had to wear a cast or splint for a few weeks, you will be familiar with the alarming loss of muscle and uneasy feeling of weakness experienced after removing your cast. In a research study, students with an immobilized left arm who trained their opposite wrist completely preserved both the strength...
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The Digital Pickwick Club: A Nursing Home of the Future
Social companion robots, chatbots, telemedicine, digital tattoos, gamification – the necessary accessories of a nursing home of the future. Do you shake your head in disagreement thinking that’s science fiction and not the natural habitat of your grandma? Our short story of Dickens’ 21st-century reconstruction, the digital Pickwick Club will convince you otherwise. In Santa...
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Study: Immediate compression could help prevent complications after deep-vein thrombosis
Study supports use of this simple, low-cost intervention even for patients without symptoms AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (WASHINGTON, September 20, 2018) — People with deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) can substantially cut their risk of potentially debilitating complications by starting adequate compression therapy in the first twenty-four hours of DVT therapy (known as the acute phase of...
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Slaying the couch-potato mindset
(HealthDay)—There’s no shortage of creative excuses people come up with to stay stuck on the sofa, but three of them top the list. Here’s how to hurdle the obstacles standing between you and getting in shape. “I’m too tired to exercise.” Being too tired to work out is a common theme among procrastinators. And while...
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People who walk just 35 minutes a day may have less severe strokes
People who participate in light to moderate physical activity, such as walking at least four hours a week or swimming two to three hours a week, may have less severe strokes than people who are physically inactive, according to a study published in the September 19, 2018, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of...
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Exercising with rheumatoid arthritis
(HealthDay)—Different from osteoarthritis, which is the wear-and-tear breakdown of joint cartilage experienced over time, rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune disease that causes both pain and intense fatigue. When you’re in the throes of a flare, exercise may seem like mission impossible and you might be advised to rest until it passes. But exercise...
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Muscle Clocks Play a Role in Regulating Metabolism
Researchers untangle the multifarious nature of muscle aging. So far, the only reliable treatment is exercise. In the early 2000s, Stefano Schiaffino, a muscle physiologist at the University of Padova in Italy, was faced with puzzling results: two seemingly identical experiments involving hind leg muscles in rats had yielded different findings. Schiaffino and his team...
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Exercise could delay progression of type 1 diabetes when first diagnosed
The findings of a study led by the University of Birmingham suggests that exercise during the first few months of diagnosis of type 1 diabetes could delay the progression of the condition. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Study participants who continued an active exercise regime after type 1 diagnosis extended their partial remission, also known as the ‘honeymoon’...
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Adjusting Breakfast And Dinner Times Aids Fat Loss: Study
Watching what one eats is an important part of most diets, but can the time of the meal also be an affecting factor? Researchers of a new study finds that adjusting breakfast and dinner times can actually increase weight loss. When Not Just What With so many diet plans available for anyone to follow, people...