Your bones are the foundation of your body. Protecting your bones is an important step to avoid osteoporosis and maintain a healthy spine. Osteoporosis is also commonly called the “silent disease” because most people don’t know they have it until the disease has really progressed. There are many factors like race, age, gender, family history, type of the body, menstrual history, lifestyle and history can make anyone susceptible to osteoporosis with aging. Check out these osteoporosis myths and facts to keep your foundation strong.
If you have an ageing parent or a grandparent, chances are they have had a UTI or urinary tract infection at some point in time in life. But the risk of UTI is greater when a person is frail thus increasing their odds for delirium, hospitalization and death.
The month of November is the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month and we atOrthomed are here to provide awareness. The pancreases are glands which are about 6 inches long lying between the stomach and spine. The pancreas has two main jobs in the body which are to make juices enabling the breakdown of food and to make hormones such as insulin and glucogen helping to control blood sugar levels.
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning to such as extent that it interfered with a person’s daily life and activities get affected. The functions may include memory, language skills, visual perception, problem-solving, self-management and the ability to focus and pay attention
Back pains are something that people would never forget in their life time. Some suffer due to the demand in their respective profession, while others suffer of improper postures during routine lifestyle or at the time of physical activity. There are whole lot of hospitals in Chennai treating patients for Back pain and related complications.
Stress! The most common problem of the 21st century. Are you or your loved one at loggerheads? If the answer is Yes! Read on. More and more people often complain of problems remembering familiar names, phone number or where they have put their glasses, keys etc.
Fractures of the body are common and a stress fracture is a small crack in a bone that is a result of the repetitive force that happens due to overuse. They are common in the lower legs and the feet, not due to the only weight-bearing bones of the entire body but due to constant and repeated shock absorption from activities such as running, jumping and even walking.
