One of the major health related problems in older population is fall. With aging the eyesight deteriorates, reaction time (ability to quickly respond) gets affected and the muscle strength reduces making the elderly prone to fall.
Do you remember Jaadu from Koi Mil Gaya? The cute alien had superpowers which made Rohit’s (Hritik Roshan) muscles powerful, bones stronger, and healed his dysfunctional nervous system.
Here are some exercises that you can easily perform to prevent or treat forward head and rounded shoulder posture. These are pretty safe for everyone and don’t need any other equipment other than your wall. The first exercise is pectoral
This is in stark contrast with four-legged animals whose heads, shoulders, and hips are aligned in one horizontal line. Pig is one prime example of this.
How Shashi Tharoor helped me to lose weight:
My yearning for fitness was genuine but the processes I was trying could not excite me enough to continue for a long time. Once the initial excitement was over I would fall back to my old routine, initially with guilt which soon gave way to indifference.
Text neck syndrome: Finally a solution that works (This blogpost is the third instalment of a 60 part series. In case you have missed the previous ones, the First part talks about strategies to improve water intake, the second part:
One of my all-time favourite books is ‘Atomic habits’ by James Clear. In this book the habit expert explains various strategies to build good habits and easily discard the bad ones. One of the strategies that I find particularly useful
In my clinical practice I usually get a few techies regularly with aches and pains because of poor ergonomics during work from home. In the present situation with Corona virtually anyone who works on a computer is working from home.
Let’s look into a bit more detail on what exactly is happening here and how best to address this problem. Too much too soon Primary reason these injuries happen is because of unaccustomed sudden stress. I see most of these
Osteoarthritis of knee is the commonest of the joint diseases in India. Even conservative estimates put the prevalence rate at 22% and the number goes up to 70 percent in age specific population (above 65 years). How do our people