Category: Medicine

Many conventional drugs used today to treat various illnesses originated from the natural healing properties found in herbs. A good example is aspirin, which was originally derived from willow bark for its salicylic content. Through the years, scientists found ways to isolate beneficial compounds found in medicinal plants and create them synthetically in a lab. This was done for multiple reasons. It was more cost effective, as plants vary in potency depending on where they are grown, as well as the growing conditions, which, when these compounds are simplified and copied, can be controlled. With synthetic production, risk of contamination from wrongly identified plant specimen or even contamination from pesticides and other conditions can also be eliminated. And most important, it was economically advantageous to isolate and patent individual components of the medicinal herbs seen as beneficial to combating illness.

However, with the introduction and predominant use of synthetic drugs on the market, other unforeseen issues cropped up. The main drawback to these synthetics is its very unpleasant and frequently dangerous side effects that range from mild allergic reactions to poisoning the bodys systems to the point of shutdown. The culprit is usually the result of synthetic medicines using potent compounds that were initially isolated from plants, but were not copied over in entirety. (Remember the patent approach). A simplified example is vitamin C, which has only recently been found to work incompletely within the body because, among other things, was missing flavonoids. Scientists still are far from having a complete understanding of the human body, and as a result, synthetic medicine can have unforeseen and long-lasting destruction on the body. The best that medicine can be expected to do at this time is manage the effects of disease and illness, with the hope that enough of the negative cells and bacteria are eliminated before the whole body system collapses.

The holistic approach centers on prevention and identifying at-risk areas of health before it becomes a problem. Conventional medicine has become little more than disease management. Conventional medicine may be beneficial for acute injuries, such as a car accident, broken bones, heat stroke, frostbite, and the like; however chronic conditions such as the flu, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer can all benefit from a more holistic approach that incorporates herbal remedies into a regimen of care.

It sounds scary doesn’t it: internal medicine doctor. Most people hear the phrase, coming from their family doctor’s lips and they panic. It can’t be a good thing to be referred to a medical professional who is known as a doctor’s doctor can it? Actually it’s not as scary as it might sound. An internal medicine doctor is also known as an internist, not to be mixed up with a doctor in training known as an intern.

An internist is highly skilled and trained to diagnosis and treat adult diseases. This is the doctor who specializes in one area of your health and can generally figure out symptoms that can stump your family doctor who does not specialize in one area of the body. Think of Dr. House on the television series and you are on the right page to understand what an internist does.

Your internal medicine doctor will generally not be as vague as Dr. House with a specialty though. Many internists specialize in one subspecialty such as a cardiologist who is a heart doctor or a doctor who only treats infectious disease or geriatrics. There are as many sub specialists as there are diseases and body parts to treat and way too many to list here.

So a referral to an internist shouldn’t be anything to panic you now that you realize that an internal medicine doctor can be someone with the specialty skills and training to treat very specific health issues such as heart disease or infectious disease.

Once you get a referral however you should do your own due diligence to make sure the doctor you have been referred to is the doctor you want to see. A simple check can give you information about your internist’s training, education and skills and help you feel more confident that this is the doctor to help you.

If however you don’t feel the referral is a good match after you have seen the doctor, be sure to contact your family health professional and request the names of a few other doctors as well. You are perfectly within your rights to get a second or even a third opinion if you are unhappy with your diagnose or the treatment options presented to you.

However, you should also remember that an internist is a specialist and they usually know what they are doing and what they are looking at. So if you are getting the same information from your second opinion as you got from your first opinion it may be time to accept a diagnoses and stop looking for a new internist to give you a third or fourth opinion and start working on your treatment plan.

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Sports physiotherapy is important for any athlete because it addresses the root of the problem and hastens the recovery process. After the athlete is diagnosed and treated by a sports doctor, physiotherapy is usually the next step to help the player get back into the game. This rehabilitative programme is customised for individuals based on their injuries.

The most common sports injuries that are seen among athletes are joint and ankle sprains, hamstring pulls and Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tears. Most people who play contacts sports that involve running and turning with one foot are likely to get sprains and ligament problems.

Often, ice therapy and Interferential Current (IFC) therapy are administered by the sports physiotherapists to help reduce swelling and treat sprains. The physiotherapy sessions also involve soft tissue massages to relieve pain; joint manipulation or mobilisation for realignment; exercises to strengthen muscles; and programmes to rebuild core stamina endurance.

However, although the possibility of reconditioning the body back to the pre-injury level of fitness with regular and disciplined physiotherapy is about 90 per cent, it is dependent on several other factors – level of injury, the player’s fitness level, weight and nutrition.

Many people have the misconception that you should not exercise after sustaining an injury but this is not true. Not doing an appropriate amount of exercise will slow down the process of muscle recovery.

Though it is important to stay active despite the injury, this is a process which cannot be rushed. You have to be disciplined and patient during the physiotherapy process. Being over eager will just make things worse and this is also the greatest challenge for sports physiotherapists working with enthusiastic and dedicated players.

Athletes are no strangers to sports-related injuries but even weekend ‘sports warriors’ need to careful to avoid hurting themselves. Non competitive players are often eager to play and they forget all about strength, flexibility and their fitness level. However, not having proper training will also mean you’re more likely to get injured if you don’t exercise with caution.

Intermediate frequency penetration of micro-Chinese medicine.

1> Intermediate frequency electric current can increase the permeability of the tissue membrane and cell membrane. Thereby, the medicine molecules can permeate into the human body and form medicine molecules heap on focal skin.

2> Medicine molecules heap can stimulate intracutaneous nerve ending, collateral channels and acupuncture points, so it has the function of treating focally and far apart.

3> After entering the lesions through targeted osmosis, the medicine can give play of unique treatment function in the focal tissues.

4> It is the medicine molecules that enters by intermediate frequency penetration. It is beneficial to the integrity of the compound Chinese traditional medicine, and can give full play of the synergetic effect thus ensuring the therapeutic effect.

2. Micro-Chinese medicine phonophoresis.

1> Ultrasonic wave promote the material movement in the cells and tissues and can produce a kind of imperceptible massage. It can increase the permeability of the cells and promote the metabolism of the cells.

2> Ultrasonic wave can dissolve the deposition of the waste in micro blood vessels and increase the permeability of the vessels walls and the speed of blood flow.

3> It can remove the remaining hyperplasia tissues, waste and small stones in the tubules, the walls of calyces renales minors and pelvis.

4> Cavitation reaction and convective transportation can produce thermal response and mechanical action that can permeate micro-Chinese medicine into the body and make it play the role of anti renal fibrosis such as anti inflammation, invigorating blood circulation, blocking renal fibrosis and rebuilding renal function.

3. Chinese herb bath therapy.

1> The medicine arrives directly at the lesions through collateral channels. Medicated bath acts on the texture of the subcutaneous flesh, and the medicine runs along the main and cholesterol channels through acupuncture points and then arrives the organs. It proceeds from the outside to the inside, and effect the function of promoting blood and qi circulation and regulating yin and yang so as to treat the disease.

2> Collect the quintessence of the plants by bath. The medicines used for medicated bath are always aromatic medicine, activating yang medicine with acrid flavor and medicine that promoting blood circulation and removing obstruction in channels. These medicines have strong smell, and the medicine gas is easy to be released after boiling and hot-water soak. It enters the human body through the texture of the subcutaneous flesh and play multiple roles of clearing and activating the channels and collaterals, promoting flow of qi and blood circulation, eliminating stasis and obstacles and arriving directly at the lesions.

3> Medicine and bath acts together to sweat and drive out pathogenic factors.

Sweating method is one of the most common treatments for removing pathogenic factors in Chinese medicine. Heating bath itself makes people sweat, and with the help of medicine efficacy, the pores will be widely open, so the patient sweats more thoroughly. The pathogenic factors will be driven out along with the sweat. After removing the pathogens, the body will get right, so we achieve the goal of recuperating ones health.

A woman who was already forty years old gathered her guts and came to the local university?s college of literature, science and the arts in her plain farm clothes and asked to be admitted as a student. A convent educated farm wife, fresh off a chicken ranch, this woman said she wanted to be a doctor. Before approving the lady?s application, the university?s admission head sent her to the psychologist for he was so skeptical.

Ten years later in the time of spring, this old lady has achieved something that is unlikely to be equaled, states the university spokesman. They also emphasize how this woman raised 10 kids with her husband during the time that she struggled to complete her degree and doctorate requirements.

This lady physician still needs to cover one year for her local hospital internship followed by an application for a 3 year residency at an eastern medical center for internal medicine practice. A flourishing career is what she wants to achieve. Twenty five years would be the life span of a medical career but I am resolute to be in this career more than those years.

In the year 1964, her husband, after 15 years of being a 145 acre chicken farm, decided that he wanted to overhaul his source of revenue and also motioned for his wife to find sources of income for their big family. He wound up as an electronics instrumentation specialist at the local research laboratory. The wife on the other hand attended school but also worked in a blood processing laboratory at her university to get some income.

While she shares everyone asks me this, she asserts that it?s not all that tough to be a mother of ten along with being a working student. We have become more mindful with our money and we just get by with a little. But without me even asking for it, all of them pitched in. The kids did their part alongside their extremely helpful father. Because I don’t like to cook, I only do the dishes. There are times that I’d cook and do the dishes and it would be smooth.

This hard driven lady was able to attain a 3 point 2 average in her premed program and while she waited to be accepted in a medical school, she enrolled herself in graduate biology class on a part time basis. She shares her belief on how medical school changed not just her but their whole family too. For example, they would get to meet many people in their home, from faculty members to medical students. They met tons of outstanding individuals and learned to understand people across incomes and statuses.

My daughter, one of them, was asked how it feels to have a mom who was absent most of the time. Her answer was that their mom wasn’t just a mom but also a person. Of their 10 children, only 2 remain at home. These are their youngest kids, both boys where one is 17 and has graduated from high school recently while the other is 14 years old and is still studying at the local junior high school. It is their the eldest boy, aged 29, who stays in touch as he lives nearby and manages his own budding enterprise, a motorcycle sales shop. Towards her medical education, the lady doctor maintains that she firmly believes the secret was learning to acknowledge the role of a doctor without trailing behind as a woman. This successful woman saw it as a matter of personal growth and the importance of fulfilling a duty.