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How To Improve Your Total Knee Replacement Recovery
Recovering from total knee replacement surgery can be a time-consuming process, however, you can reduce the time you spend in recovery by following your physical therapist's plan of care and learning to listen to your own body. There are a number of areas that you should be aware of that can slow down your recovery, for instance, not managing your pain control during the rehabilitation process, and not controlling your edema or swelling in your knee due to over-activity by not elevating your affected leg for instance.
Diet and physical activity in preventing cancer - Lung, Breast and Prostate cancer
The term cancer is used generically for more than 100 different diseases including malignant tumours of different sites (such as breast, cervix, prostate, stomach, colon/rectum, lung, mouth, leukaemia, sarcoma of bone, Hodgkin disease, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma). Common to all forms of the disease is the failure of the mechanisms that regulate normal cell growth, proliferation and cell death. Ultimately, there is progression of the resulting tumour from mild to severe abnormality, with invasion of neighbouring tissues and, eventually, spread to other areas of the body (1,2).
Exercise prescription for the patients with Fibromyalgia
American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and Swedish Fibromyalgia Association have published summary paper on fibromyalgia (FM). Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex and chronic pain syndrome characterized by chronic widespread pain (axial plus upper and lower segment plus left- and right-sided pain), tende esss, sleep disturbance and fatigue. Pain is located particularly in muscles, but also in joints. The prevalence in the general population is about 2%, of which 80% are women (1, 2).