Wednesday, 10 December 2014

NEUROSPINAL HEALTH

1.Science which deals with brain,spinal cord and peripheral nerves such as motor nerves and sensory impulses and autonomic nervous system,etc,are comes in neurology and its health is most important to maintain a happy life with mental,physical and social well beings.The main diseases of nerves and spinal cord and the brain are the stroke,Parkinson's disease,fits,cerebra spinal injury due to road transport accidents and diseases.etc.

2. Avoidance of stroke.Maintain a healthy body weight and life style.Keep your body mass index always between 18 to 25.To find out your BMS,see your weight and divide it by your height in meter square. Exercise aerobically 4 times in a week for 10 to 40 minutes.Eat lot of fruits,vegetables and high fiber diets.Avoid fats especially saturated fats found in meat,butter and beef shortening.Measure your blood pressure and see whether it is high or not.High blood pressure makes the heart and blood vessels work harder.Treat high blood pressure as told by your doctor.

3.Check your cholesterol and maintain it in normal level.Test your blood sugar.Chronic high blood sugar is harmful to the arteries.Free blood sugar is often tested at clinics,laboratories and pharmacies.Ask your doctor to check your blood sugar level high hematocrit,High hemotocrits make a person more prone to strokes.Stop smoking.Nicotine causes the blood vessels to narrow and constrict which impedes circulation,and reduce or eliminate drug and alcohol intake.Abuse of either can cause strokes even in teenage and young adults.Avoid constipation.Straining to more our bowels is hard on our heart and blood vessels.Reduce your stress.Chronic stress and strain causes the blood vessels to narrow,which makes the blood pressure rise and the heart work harder than normal.Relax.with yoga class,read a good book to your beloved one,pray,meditate or do whatever else relaxes you.and increase your sense of being.

4.To avoid Parkinson's disease take anti-inflammatory medicines with medical advice.It is a result  of an inflammatory process.Keep your cholesterol level under control.A study reports that a high cholesterol level can increase Parkinson's.Anti inflammatory Parkinson medication may reduce and curb the disease in many patients.Maintain a healthy diet and exercise regularly to keep your cholesterol level in normal status.Take supplements. As per studies supplements are effective and efficient in combating neuro degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and parkisons diseases.The preventive health website states that taking antioxidant can improve your brain health for the diseases of parkisons and Alzheimer diseases.Vitamin c and fish oil supplements can also promote healthy brain activities.

5.To avoid migraines,wake up in the same time each day,disrupting your natural sleep patterns encourages your migraines.Avoid fatigue and have plenty of rest.Avoid sudden bright flashes of light which triggers migraines in some persons. Breathe deeply,high dozes of oxygen and exercise aerobically at least 4 times in a weeks 20 to 30 minutes each time. Specially hormonal active women are more at risk of developing migraines.Regular brisk exercise keeps hormone in a better balance.If steps mentioned above do not keeps you from getting migraines see your doctor for a medical advise.

6.The excessive use of Laptop is causing lot of people to suffer from back and shoulder and neck pain.For sustained periods of work,use a laptop with a docking station.Place the laptop on a stable base and not on your lap and take regular breaks and walk for at least one minute or more in your office to relieve upper body tension.Sit up straight with your lower back supported.In order to achieve a full and faster recovery of a back injury,oxygen is an important nutrient in the healing process of tissues of the back-must be present.In addition to the broad harmful effects of smoking causes reduced levels of oxygen to reach the discs and spinal tissues.Diminished oxygen levels cause early degeneration and weakness of disc and can take more time for healing process from a spinal injury or disease.

7.Swimming provides a better cardio-vascular activity.Many people suffering from chronic neck and back pain have a difficult time with lots of forms of exercise.Swimming is ideal.because the water counteracts the force of gravity and takes pressure off the spine and the back muscles.This helps strengthen the neck,abdominal and back muscles which you need to protect your back,by lightening of load always relieves certain forms of back pain.It is also very important to get a mattress that provides sufficient back support.Have a medium firm mattress rather than a very firm or very soft mattress to ease back pain.A healthy back is the working combination of nerves,muscles and bones and more,but over weight puts pressure on these structures.If you keep a healthy weight for your height,you can decrease your risk of back pain.

8.Poor lifting and carrying loads are most common and easily avoidable, causes of back pain.Never carry loads that are so heavy and can not lift alone.Work places are furnished to provide correct equipment for you to carry out your work.If you think you may have trouble by lifting  something,get help.Do not risk back injury.Good posture and regular exercise help in minimizing chronic back ailments.Regular exercise is good.But it is necessary not to strain your back.Walking and cycling help your muscles to function well.If you do not have already disc complaints,you can take yoga classes.Many of the exercises strengthen your abdominal muscles and your back,which can us to stand straighter.Remember to take advice from your doctor if you have back with or with out leg pain and you are worried or doubts about new forms of exercise.

9.Eating nutritious foods,keep you healthy and may help slow down spinal complaints.Nutrition will decide how strong your bones and connective tissues are.Eat lot of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables and whole grains,include sea foods.poultry and low fat or non fat diary products in your daily diet.Drinking sufficient amount of water is also essential and also getting enough sunshine exposure that give you vitamin D,an important vitamin to help build stronger bones.What you eat during your whole life will determine how able you are to repair bones,muscles,cartilage,tendons and ligaments.Try to move every 30 minutes-even walking inside the office for less than one minute can help to stimulate your back muscles.That is all,at present,think twice that your health is your wealth.
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