Is Lower Back Pain A Barrier To Your Fitness Routine?
Regular exercise is an important component of any balanced, healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, for many people chronic lower back pain makes exercise-or just about any other type of activity-painful and sometimes impossible. Lower back pain affects each of us at some point in our lives and is one of the leading causes for physician visits. According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons AAOS , approximately six million Americans each year see their physician because of lower back pain, and nearly 500,000 require hospitalization. However, as medical professionals learn more about the causes and effects of chronic back pain, their approaches to treatment are changing. For example, fewer doctors prescribe bed rest. Not only can that course of treatment result in stiff or weakened muscles, but physical inactivity can lead to more serious long-term problems, such as weight gain, heart disease and diabetes. Today s patients have a range of treatment options, with most encouraging at least some type of physical activity. Experts say that moderate exercise, three to five times per week, will not only improve overall fitness but will also decrease the...
posted by Ruby on July 1, 2009
Electronic Air Cleaners Low Maintenance For Big Improvements In Air Quality
Electronic air cleaners are a relatively inexpensive and low maintenance way of removing airborne particles from the atmosphere in your home. Using electrostatic technology to provide a sort of filterless air purifier, electronic air cleaners are a safe way to keep your air particle, fume and dust-free. These filterless air purifiers work by using the scientific principle of electrostatics. This law means that substances with opposite charges are attracted to one another, and electronic air purifiers harness the power of this principle by collecting the air and giving any particles gathered a charge. The charge emitted by electronic air cleaners is completely harmless to humans, but draws the collected particles to a plate within the cleaner, where they remain, safety extracted from your breathing air. Electronic air cleaners are ninety five percent effective in removing particles and fumes from the air in your home, collecting the offending substances on plates stored safely inside the purifier. Some people find the disadvantage of electronic air cleaners to lie exactly here these collection plates must be cleaned regularly in order to maintain the unit s...
posted by Luann on May 5, 2009
Courage
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne Courage is the clich hallmark attributed to the hero. I say clich because people talk about courage as if it is some mysterious force only a hero is born with. Courage is a vague and fleeting concept for many people because they lack it themselves. People lack courage because they lack knowledge. They have no idea where the true source of courage comes from. Even worse, they don t know it and continue to live in fear. As Socrates pointed out, People not only don t know, but they don t know that they don t know. This is why so many people on earth live in fear. Fear of death. Fear of life. Fear of living their nightmares. And fear of living their dreams. Most people are followers because they lack self-confidence and live in constant fear. Anyone who is brave and can show them how to overcome fear, they follow and respect. But...anyone that reminds people of their own fear, they attack and abuse viciously. This is human nature in its lowest, animal form. What is fear. Fear is the perception or misperception of the unknown. Perception of how we negatively view reality, but not reality...
posted by Elda on March 2, 2009