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How to Treat Tennis Elbow
submitted by: admin on 10/11/2017
Tennis elbow is a repetitive stress injury that results from improper stroke technique and occurs in the lateral epicondyle for backhands and the medial epicondyle for the serve and forehand. All too often the joint is treated with a cortisone injection and physical therapy and the person is told to return to playing tennis when the pain is resolved....
HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
HRT has been exposed as a dangerous treatment through the Women's Health Initiative Study. HRT is associated with an increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and thromboses. Natural hormone replacement is discussed. The specific problems with HRT are reviewed and a rational approach for using hormones is presented.
HRT: Stopping It Lowers the Risk of Breast Cancer
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
Women who cut back on HRT are at lower risk for developing breast cancer within a year! Estrogen sensitive tumors are very responsive to estrogen. HRT and bio-identical hormones are contrasted and discussed in relation to the risk of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and thromboses.
Hypertension: Basic Principles
submitted by: admin on 10/08/2013
You've just found out you have hypertension, what do you do now? What hypertension is, how you measure it and what the numbers mean, and how you make the diagnosis is reviewed. White coat syndrome is a very common cause of elevated blood pressure.
Hypnosis Helps Hot Flashes
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
According to an article in the October issue of the journal Menopause, hypnosis can help cut hot flashes by as much as 74%. Women had five weekly sessions where they received suggestions for images of coolness, a safe place, or relaxation and received an audio recording of a hypnotic induction. The control group received all but the recording. At 12...
Ibuprofen Proven To Cause Heart Attacks
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Ibuprofen has been associated with an increase incidence of heart attacks. It also causes an increase of GI bleeds and perforations, strokes, and kidney failure. Over the last 10 years there have been over 400,000 deaths and 4 million hospitalizations caused by NSAIDS.
Imagery
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Our thoughts have a profound effect on our neurochemistry. Imagery is a very powerful tool for changing habits and modifying our responses to stress. It is related to many stress-induced illnesses such as ulcers and heart attacks.
Indigenous Lifeways and Healing with Phillip Scott
submitted by: admin on 10/19/2019
This half hour interview with Chief Blackhorse (Phillip Scott) of the Lakota tribe explains some of the highlights of the Native American Tradition. Philllip discusses the roles of science, spirituality, ceremony, community cooperation, in the way of the ancestors and how it contrasts with the way of modern civilization.
Inflammation and Sports Injuries
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Inflammation has now been shown to promote healing, so using anti-inflammatory analgesics, while they control pain and swelling, retard healing. Injuries stimulate the production of IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor) and the body manages a symphony when it comes to regulating inflammation and healing. Steroids are the ultimate example of reducing inflammation...
Infrared Light As Medicine with Maurice Bales
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Infrared light therapy is perhaps the most impressive new scientific modality that spans many decades of medical breakthroughs. Its ability to improve or eliminate pain, often in minutes, is shocking. This treatment uses near infrared light to increase circulation, provide an increased supply of ATP (the energy to run the body), reduce inflammation, increase...
Infrared Light Therapy
submitted by: admin on 07/12/2017
Infrared light therapy is a very powerful new technology that relieves pain from most conditions including neuropathic pain. The use of an infrared scanner to monitor skin thermal changes in real time is essential to achieve safe and effective treatment. This video gives examples of its application and the article below describes it. Its use in the treatment...
Inpatient Sleeping Drug Quadruples Risk of Falls
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
According to a Mayo Clinic study published in November of 2012 in the journal, Hospital Medicine, the use of sleeping pills such as Ambien (zolpidem) quadruple the risk of falls. These drugs, which stimulate GABA brain receptors, have side effects such as dizziness, ataxia, hallucinations, and even sleep walking, may be much of the reason why. Falls...
Insomnia
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
Sleep is one of the most important lifestyle factors. Prolonged insomnia leads to inflammation and a whole host of illnesses that include hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, overweight, and suppressed immunity. There are hormonal imbalances as well, that include insulin, leptin, ghrelin, adrenal hormones and neurotransmitters that cause profound...
Insomnia Overview
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
A good night's sleep is absolutely essential for good health and most of us need between 7-8 hours every night. Lack of sleep leads to a state of inflammation and high levels of stress hormones that lead to a wide range of diseases that include type 2 diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, obesity and much more. It...
Insurance Company Thinking
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Insurance companies depend on our being sick to make a profit. Physicians released the purse strings of medicine to the insurance industry. Now they control the practice of medicine. MDs need to take back this financial authority..
Integral Healing with Elliott Dacher, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Integral healing involves not only our self, but also how our health relates to our whole life story that includes our families, community, nation, planet, and universe. The composite of what makes a human being includes everything about us: our body, mind, emotion, spirit, and appreciates that we are inseparably connected to all that there is. Developing our...
Integrative Medicine and Health Disparaties with Davi Pakter, MD
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Health care disparaties are common and as a society we are only as healthy as our weakest link. We also need to be in harmony with our environment, and many medical treatments pay no attention to this. Mayor Newsome has created a program called "Healthy San Francisco," that provides a beginning program of integrative health care for the indigent. Diet,...
Introduction for Managing Heart Disease
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Arteriosclerotic heart disease is defined by reduced blood flow caused by cholesterol plaques, with or without blood clots, in one or more blood vessels of the heart. This situation can lead to insufficient nutrient delivery to the downstream tissues that can cause these very important complications.
Congestive heart failure...
Introduction to Somatic Therapy with Nirinjan Yee
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Somatic means embodiment of who we are physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We have natural healing mechanisms that keep us in a healthy balance. Where the life is in each person is very valuable information needed to begin the healing process. When we stop fighting there is a relaxation and silence and not knowing that allows what we don't...
Intuition Medicine
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Intuition can be developed into a powerful tool for insight and healing. We can learn to access our intuition through training and use it to find solutions to health care issues. Being present helps us to have access to our intuition.
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