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You feel pain in the knees, back, hands, elbows or shoulders, Orthotic products are designed to restore mobility and improve performance. When the joint is in motion, they offer a therapeutic massage and support. This stimulates blood circulation and promotes the healing process. Whether you're a professional athlete or someone looking for an active and healthy life, you will appreciate the quality, excellent comfort and therapeutic efficacy.


Orthotics are used primarily to control, stabilize or immobilize an articulation. Orthotics provide maintenance and support and help to restore and maintain mobility. orthotics can be used as stationary or mobile, depending on your medical treatment.

Acute stress reactions can occur:

1. the psyche
Increased attention
Anxiety/anger
The short-term improvement of learning ability and memory

2. the immune system
Strengthening the defense of the immune system
Increased flow of blood

3. the lungs
Increased respiratory function (more oxygen in the blood)

4. Heart
High heart rate, increased blood pressure
Dilation of blood vessels for muscles
Narrowing of the blood vessels of the body surface

5. the digestive tract
Diminished activity in order to save energy

6. the muscles
Greater muscle tension
Better reflexes

7. the metabolism
(in the liver, kidney and fat deposits)
Energy is made available to the muscles and brain

Persistent load-possible damage

1. the psyche
Sleep Disorders
Depression
Anxiety Disorders
Memory problems/failures
Difficulty Concentrating
Irritation

2. the immune system
Overreaction in the form of allergies and neurodermatitis
Auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis)
Weakening
Frequent infections
Probably also impaired function in the NK-cells that fight cancer cells

3. the lungs
Asthma

4. Heart-/karsystemet
High blood pressure
Cardiac Infarction
Brain Hemorrhage
Atherosclerosis

5. the digestive tract
Inflammation of the stomach lining
Belly-/tarmproblemer

6. the muscles
Chronic pain
Fibromyalgia

7. the metabolism
Elevated blood glucose level
High blood cholesterol levels
Diabetes

 New research results show that by changing lifestyle in a positive direction can increase the activity of the enzyme telomerase, which is responsible for the maintenance of the body's Telomeres.

Telomeres are DNA-protein complexes, which sits on the end of our chromosomes and helps to keep them stable. A sufficient Telomere-Length is of crucial importance for the maintenance of the cells, among others such as immune defence.

A group of men were asked to change their diet, so they ate less fat and refined carbohydrates and plenty of grains, fruits and vegetables and took supplements of soy, fish oil, vitamin C and E and selenium. In addition, test participants are asked to begin to exercise and try to avoid the stress of everyday life.

At the end of the test was the contents of telomerase increased, and one could also observe a reduction in LDL-cholesterol content, mental stress, BMI, waist circumference and blood pressure. "The importance of this trial is not limited to men," write the authors. "Comprehensive lifestyle changes can increase telomerase and Telomeres, which can benefit the population in General".

"I'm starting to take Glucosamine and fish oil because of osteoarthritis in my knees. Since I just started to take these products, I have not marked any effect yet. Now I have read several places that one must take MSM together with Glucosamine, so I would like to know something more about.

We live in a House with three floors, and I'm going to go backwards down the stairs. I have asked my doctor if it would be advantageous to move to a one-level House, but he just replied that the fact that there are stairs, da keeps me going. Can you tell me about if this could worsen the condition in my knees."

Answer: the Stairs might be hard for the knee joints, especially if you weigh too much. Just think how many kilos that presses on the knee joints, and then you have to move those kilos many meters upwards, when you go up a flight of stairs, and when you go down them together with pressing against the cartilage. So it will definitely be an advantage for you to move to the ground floor or an a-plan House.

If you weigh too much, it often goes beyond the knee and hip joints. Only twenty kilos overweight is similar to that of you walking all the time with a bucket full of water in each hand. It is hard for your joints to cope. So it is fine, the doctor has advised you to lose weight so you must.

It's fine that you take Glucosamine, which helps your cartilage in the joints to get it better and attenuates the pain in the cartilage. But for Glucosamine to be able to work, it must go to the joint cartilage, and it gets there via joint fluid. You need to keep active for your body to create joint fluid (when moving its joints), so it is important that you use your knee joints but without overloading them. your doctor is right in saying that it is important that you keep yourself active.

The best thing you can do is to cycle two times twenty minutes daily on an exercise bike that you can have standing in your living room.

It is not necessary to take MSM together with Glucosamine or chondroitin sulphate, but if there pain, the MSM can work better pain reliever than the two other drugs. It's fine that you also take fish oil, also works for pain suppression. Other good things against osteoarthritis is rosehip powder, vitamin C and ginger.

You can also buy orthotic insoles that help as shock absorption and will put less strain on your joints when you walk. The orthotic insoles will also provide support and spread the pressure evenly that can build up on your heel. Orthotic insoles can be bought online quite inexpensively.
Orthotic insoles have built in arch supports as well which will also stop plantar fasciitis.

As you get older, there will be more and more things that give cause for concern, because the body's ability to repair itself changing. one of these things is osteoporosis. Fortunately, you can compensate for the body's failing ability to rebuild the bone tissue, which is the cause of this disorder. But unfortunately it is often what we choose-or perhaps rather not choose-to do these things that can help prevent it in youth, which has the greatest influence on how healthy our bones is when we get older. This is especially true for women. Thirty years ago the endocrinologist noticed Charles Dent, to "age-related osteoporosis is a pediatric disease". It was his way of saying that we are building up our bone Foundation early in life. This article sheds light on both the "prevention" that teens should be aware of, and the "treatment", which is available for those of us who are out of youth and development and growing years.

Osteoporosis: basic information
Osteoporosis is latin and means "porous bones". It is a progressive condition in which the bones gradually lose strength and density. Bones are living tissue, and as such will be constantly "transforming" in the the form of reconstruction, adjustment in connection with damage, etc. As with normal tissues will be replaced all bone tissue cells will also be replaced completely over time. There is a net loss of bone tissue, when the balance between the building and the destructive process tipper over against a loss of calcium and other bone components.

Approximately 1.3 million older Americans break bones every year as a result of osteoporosis. Wrist, hip and spine are the most vulnerable. And there are far more women among patients: Women account for approximately 80% of all the damage that happens as a result of osteoporosis. Nevertheless, a very large number of men also suffer from osteoporosis. This disparity between the sexes with regard to damage can partly be explained by the fact that the men from the start have larger and more compact bones and may need to lose more bone mass, before damage begins to occur. But it is not the whole explanation. By 65-year-old men on average have lost approximately 9% of their bone mass, whereas women have lost 26%. There is broad consensus that the decrease in the body's estrogen production in connection with menopause plays a big role for the high percentage of women.

Most discussions regarding Osteoporosis focuses on calcium loss. However, this is a serious analytical error. Although throughout the health sector the emphasis on calcium for maintaining healthy bones, because it constitutes a large part of the bone tissue, so is calcium perhaps not the most important thing to focus on in order to prevent problems from occurring? Bones consists of both inorganic mineral parts and organic parts. Osteomalacia is the medical term for the softening of the bones, which is the result of too little calcium in the diet and body. By osteoporosis, it is not only the contents of calcium and other minerals, but also the non-mineral component of bones made up of collagen and proteins, which is disturbed. This fact was thoroughly illuminated at an osteoporosis Conference, which was held last year. If you are interested in knowing more about minerals other than calcium as the instrumental cause of osteoporosis, you can read this article here.

Metatarsal pads have been developed for people suffering from foot pain. These pads that you place inside your shoes will help to cushion your heel and ball of your foot from harmful pressure and shocks. People buy metatarsal pads as a way to protect there heels and feet as many regular insoles do provide the right support and are flat with no orthotics designed into them. Metatarsal pads are relatively inexpensive but can be a sure way to help support your foot correctly. Dont risk getting such problems as plantar fasciitis or other foot problems that can cause heel and foot pain when a pair of metarsal pads or orthotic insoles can work to eliminate this problem from developing all together. If you decide to buy a pair be sure to get some in the right shoe size that fits comfortably, made out of a firm yet flexible material which have shock absorbing qualities and has been made so that the material can mold to the shape of your heel as well.
Metatarsal pads have been made specially to be able to stop any build up of pressure on the heel.. remember the heel of the foot is under a constant battle from gravity by spreading this pressure evenly throughout the heel and foot it can prevent lasting damage.

I have provided a link above to a online store which sells these pads along with other orthotic insoles that can help.

Some tests recently have been attempting to shows that moderate intake of alcohol is healthy for the heart. The publicized trials shows that when women occupy between ½ and 1 drink a day, dropping their risk of acute cardiac death by 36%. But if they double their intake to more than two articles per day, so increases the risk of acute cardiac death by approximately 15%.

"Several studies have shown that there is a correlation between alcohol and disease prevention in coronary arteries, brain hemorrhage and heart failure, but there is only very little researched in the correlation between alcohol and acute cardiac death," explains study leader Stephanie Chiuve, who teaches medicine at Brigham and women's Hospital in Boston. "In this experiment we would look at the correlation between moderate alcohol intake and the risk of acute cardiac death in women. We found that there is a U-shaped relationship, "says Chiuve. This means that too little or too much alcohol gives a higher risk for cardiac death than a moderate intake. "The women who choose alcohol, should drink about one subject per day. In this volume we saw the greatest health gain ", she says.

The results of the experiment were published in the October issue of the journal Heart Rhythm.

Even though the trial was not designed to determine how much alcohol it takes to prevent acute cardiac death, concludes Chiuve, that alcohol has a health-promoting effect on cholesterol levels and helps to reduce the amount of plaque that accumulate in blood vessels. They then emphasizes that they are not looking for a particular type of alcohol having greater impact than others, suggesting that it is the ethanol found in alcoholic drinks, as has the health-promoting effect.

But there is not only good news. Alcohol may also have what is known as pro-arrytmisk effect. It means that alcohol can cause irregular heartbeat. The effect is so well known that it has been nicknamed "Holiday Heart Syndrome".

Chiuves experiments included 85.067 women from the Nurses ' Health Study. None of the women suffered from a chronic illness at the start, and all the women answered questions about their alcohol intake every four years.

One drink contains according to Chiuve approx. 15 g of alcohol. And one drink is 3.5 dl beer, 1,2 dl wine or 0.5 dl spirits. The researchers found that women who drank between 5 and 14.9 grams of alcohol per day had the lowest risk of acute cardiac death. Those who had previously been drinking, had a 21% lower risk compared with people who had never drunk alcohol.

Women who drank 0.1-4.9 grams of alcohol had a 23% lower risk of acute cardiac death compared with those who had never drunk alcohol, while those who got 5-14.9 grams per day reduced the risk by 36%. Women with a consumption of 15-29.9 g alcohol per day had a 32% lower risk.


But when the amount of alcohol daily exceeded 30 g-IE. two drinks a day increased the risk of acute cardiac death-by 15% in comparison with the teetotal group.

Dr. Michael D, head of the Department for preventive cardiology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, is not surprised by the results. "There has always been talk about a U-shaped curve for alcohol's effect. Until a certain point, it is good for health, but when consumption exceeds this point drinking increases the risk of dying, "he says.

He notes that when he has patients with heart fibrillation, suggests to them to always to cut down on their alcohol consumption. But he added: "everyone is different, and alcohol tolerance is different from person to person, so if you can feel the heart flicker after just one drink, then it may well be that just one glass of alcohol is even one glass too much".