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January 6, 2020 |
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Modern health care has led to enormous gains in life expectancy and quality of life. However, rising health-care costs, increasing rates of chronic diseases, aging populations and the effects of advancing climate change are placing increasing pressures on our health-care systems.
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Cardiorespiratory exercise — walking briskly, running, biking and just about any other exercise that gets your heart pumping — is good for your body, but can it also slow cognitive changes in your brain?
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As our brains take in information about the world and use it to steer our actions, two key principles guide our choices: seek pleasure and avoid pain. Researchers have zeroed in on an information-processing hub in the brains of mice to discover how neurons there divide the labour to handle these opposing behavioural motivations.
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Although textbooks on the subject of Osteopathy have been in print for over 100 years, there is little material specifically addressing the treatment of adults over the age of 50, in spite of the increase in this demographic group.
This book is intended to provide a study of the biomechanics and physiology of somatic dysfunction as it relates to individuals over the age of 50.
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What if you were recovering from knee replacement surgery and you are just sitting comfortably, knitting, when you feel the outer side of your new knee burst into flame? You touch it to see if it is actually hot and a searing pain hits your cerebrum like a bolt of lightning. The lightest of contact, even tangentially, produces excruciating attacks of caustic pain. And it never gets better.
This is Florence’s story – I pegged her situation as a likely case of causalgia, also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).
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