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Head Protection Helmets by Hulet Smith on 4/30/2012
With spring in full bloom and summer right around the corner, children and adults alike are making more time for their favorite outdoor activities like bicycle riding, roller blading, and skateboarding. Biking is the All-American pastime, but it also comes with its accompanying risks. Most head injuries resulting from bicycle riding occur in June, July, and August. And school'...
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What do these numbers mean?
In terms of a person's health they mean good, not too bad, and not too good, or put another way they mean normal, prehypertension, and stage 1 high blood pressure.
May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month. The first thing to know is that everyone has blood pressure and it is very important to know what your blo...
Spring and summer bring flowers, picnics, bugs....and extremely unpredictable weather. A broad range of natural disasters manifest in the United States every year. Natural disasters have a devastating effect on people and homes where sudden storms combined with higher temperatures and humidity can create natural disasters in the blink of an eye. Thunderstorms create lightening wh...
Allergy season is once again driving millions of Americans crazy, making breathing comfortably everyone's number one goal. Life starts and ends by taking a breath, and healthy breathing is obviously essential to everyone's quality of life. For those with asthma or other chronic respiratory illnesses, however, comfortable breathing is a year round or even lifelong challenge. Asthm...
In the USA, there are thousands of elderly family members living alone, or with their spouse, who do not want to leave their home and move in with a relative, or to a nursing home, regardless of their age or medical conditions. The elderly are resistant to change and it is very important to their quality of life to live where they feel content and secure in familiar surroundings. But l...
Remember when you were a kid, and you couldn't wait to get outside and swing?
It made little difference whether it was a tire swing or a full-scale playground at a park, nothing could beat the exhilaration of carefree swinging, or the relaxation of the repetitive motion and the mindfulness of it. Be truthful--- even as an adult, isn't it still hard to resist a swing? The wind in your hair...
Tactile sensory stimulation focuses on the sense of touch and triggers a lot of neuron action in the brain. Just imagining the gentle breeze, the feel of clothing on skin, and sand underfoot can relax an individual. Every beach-bound adult can vouch for the calming qualities of water and sand. Giving children interesting things to touch provokes tactile learning through multiple ...
Every parent struggles with taking the absolute best possible care of their child in every way. Bathing a child has long been a slippery slope, and many a parent have momentarily lost their unstable grip only to quickly grab their child's arm again right before they hit the water-all the while with mom's heart racing. Bathing a child with special needs is much more challenging because of the...
The gift of sight is priceless, and we only get one pair of eyes to last us a lifetime. However, healthy vision has been largely taken for granted. Prevent Blindness America has declared that March is Workplace Eye Wellness month, and it is even more important than everyone realizes. Prevent Blindness America was founded in 1908 and is America's leading volunteer eye health and safety ...