Back pain relief

Back pain relief : A 2013 meta-analysis of 10 randomized controlled trials found “strong evidence for short-term effectiveness and moderate evidence for long-term effectiveness of yoga for chronic low-back pain.” In fact, since 2007, the American Society of Pain guidelines have urged physicians to consider recommending yoga to patients with long-term pain in the lower back.

People with back pain who did two 90-minute sessions of yoga a week for 24 weeks experienced a 56% reduction in pain, as reported in the journal Spine,. They also had less disability and depression than people with back pain who received standard care, such as pain medication. The results also suggested a trend toward the use of less pain medication in those who did yoga. When the researchers followed up with the participants six months after the study, 68% of the people in the yoga group were still practicing yoga an average of three days a week for an average of 33 minutes per session.

In a 2015 study, women with rheumatoid arthritis reported improvements in their physical health, walking ability, pain levels, energy, and mood, and had significantly fewer swollen and tender joints, after doing two hour-long yoga classes a week for eight weeks.

Children, who develop inflammatory bowel disease, are at an increased risk of death, both in childhood and later in life, according to the journal Gastroenterology. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the ongoing inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract.

Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death from gynecologic tumors in the United States. Worldwide, about 100,000 women die of the disease every year.

Antibiotic-resistant infections kill around 700,000 people annually around the world. Antimicrobials and antibiotics are increasingly misused and overused by the global population.

Federal health officials said this past week that 62 cases of acute flaccid myelitis have been confirmed in 2018 in USand 65 more possible cases are being investigated. Experts at the US CDC say they still don’t know what causes the syndrome.

Zika Update: Eight new patients were diagnosed with Zika virus in Jaipur on Saturday taking the total number of Zika patients in the pink city to 117. Out 117, 98 patients have recovered. Most of the Zika virus cases have been found in Shastri Nagar, Vidhyadhar Nagar, Sindhi Camp and New Sanganer Road. At least 10 of the cases were diagnosed at the Rajput hostel which was quarantined and students were held in confinement … (India Today).

20 Nobel Prizes that changed medicine forever: William Einthoven (1924) “For his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram” Through the advances he made in ECG technology, specifically his invention of the spring galvanometer, William Einthoven provided clinicians with the first reliable means to depict the heart and its functions and illnesses. His instrument recorded five electric potentials of the heart in waves, which Einthoven named P, Q, R, S and T.

In a first, WHO calls global meet to tackle pollution: Alarmed at the rising levels of pollution causing growing burden of diseases and deaths, WHO has called health and environment ministers of all countries including India, global leaders and experts from academia and scientific community for the first time to devise a strategy to combat pollution and its impact on health. The high-level three-day meeting, slated from October 30 to November 1 in Geneva, is likely to determine ambitious targets for countries, mainly those where morbidity and mortality is higher.

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Dr KK Aggarwal
Padma Shri Awardee
President Elect CMAAO
President Heart Care Foundation of India