Dietary Remedies for Spleen Qi Deficiency
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spleen qi deficiency refers to your body's inability to obtain qi, or life energy, from food. A healthy balanced diet is recommended.
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The Average Weight for Leg Press Exercises
The average weight a person can press on the leg press depends on gender, size and training. Only test your limits in the presence of a spotter.
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Calcific Tendonitis Exercises
Calcific tendonitis happens when calcium deposits in the shoulder cause one of the tendons to become inflamed, which limits range of motion and may be painful. You may experience calcific tendonitis in both or just one of your shoulders.
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How to Calculate Total Cholesterol Formula
Everyone knows that high cholesterol is bad. But that's a myth. In fact, there are two types of cholesterol to look out for.
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Headaches Caused by Lack of Protein
Headaches are a common problem that everyone experiences at some point or another. For some people, headaches are a constant interference with their lives. An imbalanced diet is a potential cause of headaches. Even migraines, which are more severe than regular headaches, may be related to diet and protein consumption.
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Hand and Finger Stretches
Unless you are a juggler or pianist, you probably don't consider stretching your hands and fingers. But their muscles can become tense and lose range of motion like any other muscles, especially after an injury.
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Exercises for Bedridden Patients
People who are bedridden need to exercise to prevent their muscles from atrophy and shortening. Muscle atrophy occurs when the muscles become thin and weak. The muscles shorten when they are not stretched or moved.
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Stretches For the Sternocleidomastoid
The sternocleidomastoid muscle, or SCM, is one of the largest muscles of the neck. When the SCM muscle is tight, the jaw protrudes forward. This pulls the head out of its correct alignment. Stretching gets the muscle to relax and return to its normal length so the jaw can stay in its correct position.
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Boils While Breast-feeding
Soreness and cracked skin around the nipples during breast-feeding is normal, but cracks in the skin open the way for breast infections. Developing an infection typically happens within the first six weeks of breast-feeding, though it is possible to get an infection during weaning.
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Double Vision Eye Exercises
Eye exercises are somewhat controversial and may even offer false hope for eye conditions such as glaucoma and cataracts. Double vision, however, may be improved with eye exercises. An issue such as convergence insufficiency or a palsy of the third or fourth cranial nerves, or diplopia may all lead to double vision.
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Flat Back & Posture
A flat back is known as posterior pelvic tilt. This is a postural deficiency that causes poor posture and improper alignment of the pelvic that could lead to problems. Corrective exercises that extend the lower back backward and strengthen the hip flexors improve the condition of a flat back.
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How Hanging Upside Down Affects the Body
Many people are drawn to the idea of hanging upside down to relieve back pain or improve posture, which it can. Always, however, ease into hanging upside down. Use an inversion table, which allows you to control the degree to which you invert.
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Swollen Ankles at Nighttime
Swollen ankles are common during pregnancy or immediately following an injury, but if your ankles are swelling mainly at night, you may have an underlying medical condition.
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Correct Sleeping Posture
There are two approved methods of sleeping recommended by the American Chiropractic Association: sleeping on your side and sleeping on your back. Sleeping on your stomach is not only the least desirable position to sleep in, but it could damage your spine and nervous system.
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How to Remove Swelling in the Hands
Swelling in the hands can have many different causes. If only one hand is swollen and you recently injured it, there's a possibility that one or more of the 27 hand muscles is broken. See a doctor if you think this is the case. Swelling indicates increased fluid retention between the cells of the hand.
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Male Breast Massage Techniques
Women's breast tissue gets in the way of working some of the pectoral muscles of the chest, but massage therapists have no trouble working on men. Although going to a massage therapist to have an oil massage done is one option, you can also work on yourself.
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Can an Inversion Table Help With Bulging Disks?
The spine is the part of your body most affected by the force of gravity. Due to gravity pulling down on the spine, the disks that rest between your spinal vertebra are at risk for compression.
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Altitude Sickness & Joint Aches
Altitude sickness is range of related conditions that can affect you when riding on a plane as well as hiking up a mountain. Living in high altitudes can cause you to get sick, too. Altitude decompression sickness causes achy joints and pain among other symptoms.
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The Time to Digest Food for Fuel
The time it takes for food to digest varies per person and is affected by how much food was eaten, the combination of foods, physical activity and metabolism.
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Stretches for Tension Headache Relief
Tension headaches occur in as many as 78 percent of the population, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Tension in the muscles of the neck and scalp lead to these painful headaches.
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