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Choosing between the two: Yoga or physiotherapy? Many of us often wonder, what could be the best method that we can adapt in order to live a healthy lifestyle. We think of a number of ways to inherit physical activity in our daily routine. Whenever we discuss such issues with our family, friends and society everyone has their own opinions to offer. Some believe gym is the temple, where as some others go for dancing, or maybe boxing or martial arts on some higher levels. But the most common advice we get to receive these days is about yoga. Yoga is considered to be one of the best ways to keep your mind and body free from illness. There is one more scenario where people, particularly patients who are undergoing a physiotherapy treatment often ask about what is better to do while recovering and continue to keeping your body well in the long run, “yoga” or “physiotherapy”? Sometimes people don’t understand the difference between the two, “because physical activity is physical activity...

Gender equity in Healthcare Sector. image from google A medical school comprises of one-third of the male population. Rest of the seats are all occupied by the females. If you are a medical student, you’ll relate with me. Girls are in majority, in every healthcare profession including but not limiting to Physicians, Dentists, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Psychologists, nurses. But how often do you see a female surgeon? Or a female medical superintendent? As per the population, a team of doctors must include 7 female doctors out of 10 members. But this isn’t what happens. More females are graduating every year from a medical school but how many of them are employed by the health care systems? Except for the nursing profession which has a majority of female employees in India, other branches of medicine lack female workers especially in head roles. According to a study by WHO, 70% of the women make up the health work force but only 25% are on senior positions...

 The mechanism of postural control As we all know muscles of the body play a major role in attaining both dynamic and static postures but, there is a contribution of some other body systems working simultaneously in co-ordination with the muscles. There is a center governing the simultaneously working systems of the body. Let us discuss all the important elements of postural control and their mechanism. 1.             The governing system of nervous control: The maintenance and adaptation of a posture is controlled by the system of nervous control. The system works on a give and take mechanism of receptor organs (eyes, ears, muscles and joints) giving the afferent stimuli and effector organs (muscles) receiving the command to perform the actions. All that is required for a brain to change a position is an input to produce an output. The input can either be environmental (push, pull, jerk, hit etc.) or internal (bra...

Introduction to posture: Posture is a state or attitude attained by the body either during work or during rest. How a person is standing, sitting or even lying is determined by the posture adapted by the individual. But in all the above mentioned situations the person’s body is at rest. Postures attained during a movement or a series of movements also depends on the action of group of muscles helping the body to attain such rapidly changing positions along with stability. The simplest example can be of walking, the mechanism of gait is governed by several small portions of movements making up a chain of movements called as gait. Let’s have a deeper look at what is the difference between these types of postures. Types of postures: Postures can be broadly classified into two types: 1. Active postures: The posture assumed by the body when the person is active. Meaning, that the body’s muscles are at work and are contracting to keep the body stable and to achie...

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...