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I Am 50+, Is Running Too Much for My Back?
Regular running is an effective way to reduce your risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and obesity – especially if you are an older adult. However, you may be worried that running could, in some way, be too much for your back. Whether running is good or bad for your back depends on several factors that you need to weigh out. To help you understand how exactly running may impact your back, continue...
What Can You Do to Help Prevent and Manage Gout?
The word alone can sound intimidating. Gout, though not typically a life-threatening condition, is intimidating because it can be painful and have severe flare ups from time to time. Fortunately, gout is a well-understood disease. As a result, medical experts know of several ways to prevent and manage this unpleasant condition. So what you can do to prevent and manage gout? Strategy 1: Understand the Disease A form of arthritis, gout...
How Gut Bacteria Can Predict and Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis?
The role of gut bacteria has long been recognized as a major contributing factor in immune system functioning. Since rheumatoid arthritis is a disorder caused by a faulty immune system, researchers assumed that gut microbiota may play some role in the onset of rheumatoid arthritis. Veena Taneja, Ph.D., an immunologist at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine together with her colleagues set out to see if this was...
Best Joint Pain Supplements of 2016 Reviewed
Joint pain is most often a result of diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and other conditions affecting the joints. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 22,7% of people in the U.S. were told by a doctor to have some form of arthritis. But despite its high prevalence, treatment for arthritis is limited to relieving the symptoms such as Osteoarthritis and...
How Does Exercise Benefit Osteoarthritis?
It is not clearly known what causes osteoarthritis, but one thing is that being over the age of 60, being an overweight or being out of shape are some of the factors that accelerate the risks of developing this condition. If you are among those millions of people struggling with this condition, then you need to try doing some exercises to see whether they can alleviate that pain. Osteoarthritis: The Benefits of Exercise Starting an...
Why are Female Athletes More Prone to Knee Injuries?
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that female athletes taking birth control were less likely to suffer knee injuries. The findings were published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. There are many earlier studies linking female sex hormones with the higher frequency of ligament injuries in female athletes....
Everything You Need to Know about These 11 Arthritis Comorbidities
Arthritis is associated with a wide array of comorbidities. Comorbidity means that more than one condition or disease is present in the same person at the same time. Comorbidities usually include chronic and long-term conditions that are able to make a significant impact on person’s quality of life. Other names used to describe comorbidities include multiple chronic conditions and multimorbidity. In this article, we’re...
Exercise Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome is defined as a disorder indicated by extreme fatigue. According to RightDiagnosis.com about 500,000 Americans experience this condition. In most cases, the extreme fatigue is associated with some underlying medical problem. The cause of this syndrome is unknown and experts believe that combination of factors could be to blame. Factors that contribute to chronic fatigue syndrome include problems linked with...
How to Revive Your Shoulder, Hip, Knee and Elbow Pain?
The first sign of us getting older is that we have joint aches and pain. We tend to fall into a routine and we don’t move as much. All of the movements we perform are mostly repetitive and connected with our jobs and obligatory daily tasks. We get so tired when we come home from work that any form of exercising is far from our minds. Inevitably, our joints get affected. When our hips, knees and shoulders hurt, we avoid going for...
5 Most Common Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriatic arthritis is a joint disease associated with a skin condition called psoriasis. Psoriasis is a chronic skin and nail condition associated with redness, scaling rashes and thick, pitted fingernails. The children develop a characteristic swelling and pain of a finger or toe called dactylitis. The cause is unknown, but an autoimmune nature of the disease is suspected. 1. Pain Pain is the most common complaint in psoriatic...
