Posture and exercise rank at the top of the list when you are talking about good health. They are as important as eating right, exercising, getting a good night's sleep and avoiding potentially harmful substances like alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
Good posture means your bones are properly aligned and your muscles, joints and ligaments can work as nature intended. Your vital organs are in the right position and can function at peak efficiency. Good posture helps contribute to the normal functioning of the nervous system.
Without good posture, your overall health and total efficiency may be compromised. Long-term effects of poor posture can affect bodily systems (such as digestion, elimination, breathing, muscles, joints and ligaments), and a person who has poor posture may often be tired or unable to work efficiently or move properly.
Exercise programs have been proven to be beneficial in the prevention and treatment of muscle and skeletal injuries. Maintaining flexibility through stretching, and gaining muscle tone through strengthening exercises are important aspects of an exercise routine, and will protect and support the body structure to better prevent an injury. When an injury does occur, it will often leave the body in need of reconditioning. A body that was strong prior to the injury will usually respond faster to the healing process.
At Natural State Healing Arts, treatment of new injuries focuses on reducing inflammation, restoring spinal alignment, and postural training, stretches and exercise instruction right from day one.
Dr. Adrian Sturdevant, Arkansas Chiropractic and Acupuncture
Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS) is a disorder that occurs in women during the last part of the menstrual cycle. PMS is quite common. Between 50% and 70% of women, or more than 1 in 2, suffer from PMS. One woman in 20 suffers so severely that their lives are...
Fibromyalgia & Acupuncture According to the American College of Rheumatology, fibromyalgia affects three to six million Americans, or about 2 percent of the population. What is Fibromyalgia? Fibromyalgia is a syndrome, a recognizable constellation of...
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Posture & ExercisePosture and exercise rank at the top of the list when you are talking about good health. They are as important as eating right, exercising, getting a good night's sleep and avoiding potentially harmful substances like alcohol, drugs and tobacco...
Acupuncture Offers Benefits in Alleviating Breast Cancer Treatment Side-Effects
by: Dave Gabriele, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) A 2008 American study, which appeared in the September issue of The International Journal of Radiation Oncology, examined the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating women coping with the side effects of conventional breast cancer medicine. Eleanor Walker, M.D., a radiation oncologist at the Henry Ford Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology in Detroit, led a team of researchers to compare acupuncture treatment with the common anti-estrogen treatment used to control breast cancer therapy side effects. The side effects, such as hot flashes and depression, affect about 80% of women treated for breast cancer and are usually treated by the pharmaceutical anti-depressant venlafaxine (Effexor). Many breast cancer patients refuse venlafaxine because of its own set of negative side effects.
A combination of Chinese herbal medicine and laparoscopy is the most effective way to treat endometrial ovarian cysts and increase reproductive function.
A study was carried out in Beijing to compare 3 different treatment methods for endometriosis. A group of 152 women with endometrial cysts, were divided into 3 groups: a combined Chinese herbal medicine and laparoscopy group (combination group), a Chinese herbal medicine only group, and a Danazol group. The clinical effectiveness, side effects and reproductive hormones were then compared. The shrinkage and disappearance rate of the cysts, as well as the pregnancy rate were highest in the combination group, and there were few side effects noted. The study concluded that way to treat endometrial ovarian cysts, increasing reproductive function a combination of laparoscopy and Chinese herbal medicine is an effective and causing very few side effects.
Wu Y Hua L (Clinical study on endometrial ovarian cysts treated by integrated laparoscopy and Chinese herbal medicine) Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi, 2000 March, 20 (3): 183-6.
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Posture and exercise rank at the top of the list when you are talking about good health. They are as important as eating right, exercising, getting a good night's sleep and avoiding potentially harmful substances like alcohol, drugs and tobacco.
