PTalert

Varicose veins              “Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.” Veins are blood vessels carrying de-oxygenated blood towards heart. Their might occur vascular abnormalities leading to venous defects, causing several bodily problems. This article is aimed at providing some basic information about the disease called “varicose veins”. Before moving towards the topic, let’s have an overview on what veins actually are, and what functions do they perform in our body. Veins carry oxygen-depleted blood from tissues and organs to the heart. Veins can be deep (running below the fascia), superficial (running above the fascia) and perforating (running between deep and superficial). Veins are not as thick and elastic as the arteries, hence they do not hold their shape under compression and might get torn when overstretched. The blood pressure in the veins is lower as compared to the arteries, therefore it’s difficult for the blood to run ...

Fight Cancer. Strength grows in the moment when you think you can’t go on, but you keep going anyway. Thank you for making a thousand people stop for a while and have a look at the lives they have been living carelessly. The harm that the body was tolerating, and people were not aware of it, until their body screamed louder. That is a body’s way to tell that something terribly wrong has happened to it. Something that might bring you back to your life that you once lived or it just may not. But we always have hope. To get up and come back. Cancer is an abnormal cell growth in the body which maybe benign or malignant. Benign – which doesn’t spread to other parts of the body and malignant which spreads to the other parts as well. According to the studies there are more than 100 types of cancers. Each one has its own symptoms according to the affected body part. When a person is diagnosed of cancer, it is difficult for him or her to accept what just happened. A person...

“Who is sitting on that empty chair?” We all spend time sitting on different chairs, at home, in office, coffee shops, and class rooms every day. We are sitting for various time durations. People working in offices, tend to sit a little more while working on computers, or there are some other jobs requiring sitting for long hours. People sitting for prolonged hours and working often complain of pain in back. Therefore, they choose the best chairs for them, more comfortable, cushiony, something that feels soft on our backs and comfortable on our buttocks and might trouble us a little less. Ergonomics says, there are certain angles of knees or elbows that should be attained while sitting on chair and working. According to ergonomics, the posture that is attained after adjusting the measurements imposes lesser stresses on our body and is less harmful and relieves pain. We often use cushions, back rests or arm rests that modifies our chairs and looks much more comfortable. Th...

7 Myths about Physiotherapy. The word “myth” is derived from a Greek word “mythos” meaning “story”. It expresses a culture, which has been followed since ancient times, an old practice, thoughts and values. These are the stories which are now considered to be exaggerated. It often includes the misconceptions about something which is being continued to believe even today. Physiotherapy is an old practice, which came into existence in 460 BC by physicians like Hippocrates. They introduced the idea of manual manipulation, hydrotherapy and massage therapy. Per Henrik ling, known to be “Father of Gymnastics”, founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics in 1813 and introduced exercise. By the end of 19 th century, modern physiotherapy was established. Myth #1- Physiotherapy is all about massage. Most of us believe that “physiotherapists are the massage therapists”. Hold on there! “Physiotherapists” are “physiotherapists” specialized in physical medicine a...

  THE TRIGGER POINTS image from google You might be thinking about how knots can even be growing inside your muscles. Is this possible for a muscle to develop knots inside? Well, Yes! These things are for real. You do sometimes have knots in your muscles usually called as the MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS, in medical terms. Recently I have been doing a research as a partial fulfillment for my BPT course, and I found some really good results and learnt a lot of new concepts. My research was based on the management of trigger points, a comparative study between two treatment protocols. So, here I decided to share with you my experience throughout the research and also I’ll try to explain you in brief what these points actually are. TRIGGER POINTS (Tying up of the muscles). Trigger points (muscle knots) are the small hyperirritable nodules often found in a tight band of muscle fibers. These knots are sometimes palpable as a considerably big round knot found d...