This week's weather has been (and continues to be) particularly brutal for those who work or play outdoors. If you must be outside in this heat/humidity wave, make sure you take frequent breaks and drink plenty of water.
It's about this time of year that young high school athletes begin to prepare for upcoming seasons. It might be worth reminding your children or their coach about practical safety issues. The National Athletic Trainer's Association has four good common sense tips to keep the young people safe and healthy during practice:
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A friendly reminder published by the Peoria City/County Health Department:
The Peoria City/County Health Department is reminding the public about the risk of extremely hot weather which can cause serious health problems for everyone. Peoria City/County Health Department Administrator Greg Chance says, "With extremely high temperatures expected this week, it is important to check in with family, friends, and neighbors who may be affected by this extremely high heat. Cooling centers are open in our area to offer people relief from the heat. Individuals who have no access to a cool environment should use cooling centers during a heat wave." Cooling centers in the Peoria area include the following:
For more information on heat-related illness, please contact the Peoria City/County Health Department at 309/679-6131. For more information on other public health issues, visit our website at www.pcchd.org. Since a headache (ache in the head) is such a generic term, it can be surprisingly difficult to define. Many conditions and circumstances can cause your head to ache, which also means that no two headaches are created equal. If you have a headache, it's always wise to consult with your doctor instead of self-medicating and "hoping it goes away." Most headaches are relatively minor, but some can be downright deadly.
Headaches can result from a wide variety of causes: - muscular imbalance in the neck; - side effects from many drugs, even birth control pills; - blood flow problems; - allergies or reactions to any number of chemicals such as cleaning agents, cigarette smoke, or caffeine (or the withdrawal symptoms from caffeine addiction); - menstruation or hormone imbalances; - temporomandibular joint disorders; - mood changes such as anxiety or depression or panic disorder; - head trauma or concussions; - dangerous life-threatening conditions such as bleeding inside the head, stroke, brain tumors, or a heart attack; - diseases as diverse as meningitis, diabetes, Celiac Disease, Lyme Disease, food poisoning, and more; - working at the computer; - or eye strain. How do you know whether your headache is simple or actually life-threatening? In all cases, consult with Dr. Johnson. Can you think of any other causes for headaches? Shoes are news, again. The first time around it was because special shoes were being marketed as exercise machines. Now it's because the shoes might not live up to their billing.
From The New York Times: Dr. Mercer, a professor of biomechanics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was talking with a friend who runs an athletic shoe store. The friend told him that customers were coming in and requesting toning shoes, which are soft sneakers, often with a rocker-shaped sole, that promise to exercise and tighten muscles in the calves, thighs and buttocks... The store owner carried various models of the toning shoes. But, he told Dr. Mercer, he was uncomfortable recommending them to his customers, because he didn’t know if they actually functioned as claimed. Dr. Mercer didn’t know, either. So he recruited a group of healthy young female students (toning shoes are marketed almost exclusively to women) and had them walk on a treadmill for 10 minutes at a time while wearing, alternately, a walking shoe or a toning shoe — in this case, the Skechers Shape-ups. He and his colleagues attached sensors to the women’s legs to measure the electrical impulses generated as their muscles contracted. They also determined the women’s oxygen consumption, to see if they worked harder and burned more calories with one shoe rather than the other. But as it turned out, according to results presented in June at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, muscle activation and oxygen consumption were almost identical whether the women wore walking shoes or Shape-ups. The finding “was a little surprising,” Dr. Mercer said, since his volunteers commented that the toning shoes, with their bowed, unstable bottoms, felt different underfoot from the walking shoes. But that difference didn’t change how they moved in the various models, he said. Dr. Mercer’s study joins a small but growing body of science about toning shoes, much of which does not support the makers’ claims. A study conducted last year by exercise physiologists at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, for instance, found that muscle activation and calorie burning did not change whether people wore ordinary athletic shoes or any of three different models of toning shoes. “There is simply no evidence to support the claims that these shoes will help wearers exercise more intensely, burn more calories or improve muscle strength and tone,” the authors concluded. Click here to read more. Your Nerve System is the ultimate sponge, soaking up all the experiences, sensations and stresses you encounter every day. Like a sponge, it can only absorb so much before it becomes over-saturated and spills stress into your body. The result… PAIN, SICKNESS and WEAK PERFORMANCE! The best thing you can do to prevent Nerve System Over-Saturation is to get checked by your Chiropractor regularly and adjusted when necessary. Adjustments gently “wring out” accumulated tension in your Nerve System before it has a chance to build up and affect your health negatively. If you're feeling super-soaked from the stress of Life, bring your saturated nerves to the Chiropractor for some TLC. You'll experience more energy, improved sleep and a better overall feeling of wellness if you do. Content provided by Principle33. |
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