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HEALTHBEAT SHOW NOTES .... Episode #115 - Recorded September 21, 2007Hello
and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s
Health, News and informational Podcast. In
this week’s news:
We’ll Look At –
For HealthBeat, This is Dr. Todd Eglow. Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #115, recorded September 21, 2007. HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health. This week’s Episode is sponsored by DaVinci Laboratories. Please surf to our web site at www.ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the DaVinci link for your Health and Nutritional needs. If you are interested in creating personalized Healthbeat podcasts for your office or website, to help attract new patients, please surf to our web site and send us an Email …. …. or Skype us by typing in “healthbeat”, all in small letters. Next, we would like to send out a big Thank You to those of you who are linking our Podcast to your home pages.... We do request that you also include a link to our main Podcast Page at www.ChiropracticRadio.com Finally, Chiropractic OnLine Today has always provided our news and education content for free and plan on continuing this policy. However, we do request that if you are enjoying these podcasts, that you surf to ChiropracticRadio.com and consider clicking on our PayPal link to make a donation to keep these Podcasts airing. We thank everyone for their continued support. And Now for some news …. Neck flexor muscle
fatigue in adolescents with headache A study in the October 2007 issue of the European Journal of Pain looked at muscular disorders of the neck region possibly being of importance for the etiology of tension-type headache. However, in adolescents, there are no data on the association between neck muscle fatigue and headache. This study had the aim to study differences in fatigue characteristics of the neck flexor muscles in adolescents with and without headache. The intensity of discomfort in the neck area was assessed with the visual analogue scale (VAS). This preliminary finding from this study shows that increased neck flexor muscle fatigue in adolescents seems to be associated with tension-type headache. Surf to our Show Notes for a Link to this Study - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WF3-4N0XNVK-1&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=6&_fmt=summary&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info(%23toc%236783%232007%23999889992%23664740%23FLA%23display%23Volume)&_cdi=6783&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=12&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=f704490704e225576654de6e73bbdbcd Survey
Finds Elevated Rates of New Asthma Cases Among WTC Rescue and Recovery Workers New Findings from the World Trade Center Health Registry Indicate That Respirators Helped Reduce the Risk of Developing Asthma NEW YORK CITY – August 27, 2007 – Findings released today by the Health Department shed new light on the health effects of exposure to dust and debris among workers who responded to the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. The data, drawn from the World Trade Center Health Registry, show that 3.6% of the 25,000 rescue and recovery workers enrolled in the Registry report developing asthma after working at the site. That rate is 12 times what would be normally expected for the adult population during such a time period. The paper was published today in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and is available online at www.ehponline.org The Health Department has collaborated with clinicians from WTC Centers of Excellence to develop and distribute treatment guidelines for WTC-related respiratory condition. The guidelines are available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/chi/chi25-7.pdf Surf to our Show Notes for a link to this Article - http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2007/pr074-07.shtml Obesity
and Birth Defects According to an eNews message from the National Council on Strength and Fitness, a new study suggests that women who are obese prior to becoming pregnant have a higher risk of giving birth to babies with birth defects than women of a healthy weight. Research analyzed nearly 15,000 women, finding abnormalities of the spine, heart, arms, legs, and abdomen were more likely to occur in babies born to obese women than average weight women. The study’s lead author explains that, obese women should not be overly alarmed by these findings because their absolute risk of having a child with a birth defect is low, and the case of the majority of birth defects is unknown. Of significant concern, are findings from the same study that suggest about 4% of women who were obese before their pregnancy will have babies with major defects, as opposed to the 3% for women of a healthy weight. The risk of having a baby born with spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect in the U.S., where the spinal column fails to close properly, is twice as likely to occur in babies born to obese mothers. Obese women are more likely to have babies born with protruding organs, heart defects, abnormal sized arms or legs, and several gastrointestinal deformities. Surf to our Show Notes for a link to this article discussing this study - http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/55/08-06-2007/8bb6001a01815384.html Diagnosis
and Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome According to an article from the September 1, 2007 edition of the British Medical Journal, data from other countries indicate that chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or myalgic encephalopathy) is relatively common (affecting at least 0.2-0.4% of the population), although good epidemiological data for the United Kingdom are lacking. Many different potential etiologies for chronic fatigue syndrome have been investigated, including neurological, endocrine, immunological, genetic, psychiatric, and infectious, but the etiology cannot yet be fully explained. Chronic fatigue syndrome can cause prolonged illness and disability and substantially affect patients and their families. Although most patients have mild or moderate symptoms, some have severe chronic fatigue syndrome and are housebound or even unable to move from their bed. Uncertainties about diagnosis and management may exacerbate the impact of symptoms, and patients often encounter delays in diagnosis and difficulty accessing information, support, and potentially helpful therapies. Surf to our Show Notes for a link to this article for summaries of the most recent guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence on diagnosing and managing this condition - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7617/446?etoc As always, please surf to our Podcast Show Notes at ChiropractiRadio.com for a full listing of web references mentioned in today’s show. And remember - COT’s Healthbeat always recommends discussing any nutritional or exercise lifestyle modifications with a qualified healthcare professional. Thank you for listening…. As always, We Want to hear from you. Please send us emails…. Simply surf to our Web Site at ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the Email link. You can also leave us Voice Mail…. Simply open up your Skype and type in “healthbeat”, all in small letters. If you have an idea for a future Health Segment, please feel free to contact me directly via email …. The address is: healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com We also would appreciate your votes both at Podcastalley.com and at podcasts.yahoo.com. If you are enjoying these podcasts, please surf to our HealthBeat homepage and click on the Podcast Alley link and Yahoo links. If you have a Web Site for your practice and you would like to add content to help attract more patients, please consider adding a Personalized HealthBeat segments to your site. Many listeners are finding this a useful content addition to an Office’s Web Site. For more information, please send me an Email at healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com While at our Web Site, please remember to consider making a donation to help keep these Podcasts airing. Listener support such as yours, via our PayPal link, does help in allowing us to bring these Podcasts to you weekly. And please remember to support our sponsors by clicking their links located at ChiropracticRadio.com Finally,
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