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Parkinson's Disease Symptoms: These feet problems can be an indicator of the nervous system disorder Parkinson's disease is a disorder of the nervous system that affects the movement. In this disorder the dopamine producing neurons of the brain are affected. When dopamine levels decrease in the brain, abnormal brain activity, leading to impaired movement is seen in an individual and this is one of....

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Breathing Exercises For Lungs: Chest physiotherapy for clearing airways and strengthening your lungs This makes it crucial to take the necessary step to strengthen the lungs and clear the air passage when suffering from COVID-19 and post-infection.

Possible “Red Flags”:

A person with ASD might:

🔹Not respond to their name by 12 months of age
🔹Not point at objects to show interest (point at an airplane flying over) by 14 months
🔹Not play “pretend” games (pretend to “feed” a doll) by 18 months
🔹Avoid eye contact and want to be alone
🔹Have trouble understanding other people’s feelings or talking about their own feelings
🔹Have delayed speech and language skills
🔹Repeat words or phrases over and over (echolalia)
🔹Give unrelated answers to questions
🔹Get upset by minor changes
🔹Have obsessive interests
🔹Flap their hands, rock their body, or spin in circles
🔹Have unusual reactions to the way things sound, smell, taste, look, or feel

What is Autism?

Autism is a complex, lifelong developmental disability that typically appears during early childhood and can impact a person’s social skills, communication, relationships, and self-regulation.

Autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors and is a “spectrum condition” that affects people differently and to varying degrees.

Pediatric Physiotherapy :

Signs to watch for during development of child and indicators of developmental delay.
In case of these signs one should always seek for medical help.

Early rehabilitation is necessary to prevent further secondary complications and also to maintain and restore normal movement patterns.

Your baby's developmental milestones Find out about your little one's journey during the first two years of life

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Why to act FAST after knowing signs of stroke?

Early treatment reduces chances of more damage to the brain and reduces mortality.

Early Physiotherapy treatment reduces chances of further secondary complications and results in better movement outcome results hence early recovery.
So Act FAST !

स्ट्रोकची लक्षणं दिसल्यानंतर त्वरित उपचार का करावे?

लवकर उपचारांमुळे मेंदूचे अधिक नुकसान होण्याची शक्यता कमी होते आणि मृत्यु दर कमी होतो.

लवकर फिजिओथेरपी उपचारामुळे पुढील दुय्यम लक्षण दिसण्याची शक्यता कमी होते आणि परिणामस्वरूप व्यवस्थित हालचाली होऊन चांगले परिणाम मिळतात.

स्ट्रोक हा सर्वसाधारणपणे उतारवयात होण्याचा आजार असला, तरी अलीकडे तरुण वयातही स्ट्रोक येण्याचं प्रमाण वाढलं आहे.
उच्च रक्तदाब, मधुमेह, हृदयविकार, उच्च कोलेस्ट्रॉल, धुम्रपान, मद्यसेवन या कारणांमुळे स्ट्रोक येण्याची शक्यता वाढते.

स्ट्रोक अर्थात पक्षाघात या आजारात शरीराची एक बाजू निकामी किंवा कमजोर होते.

स्ट्रोकचे प्रकार :
सर्वसाधारणपणे स्ट्रोक दोन प्रकारचे असू शकतात.

१) इश्केमिक म्हणजे मेंदूचा रक्तपुरवठा कमी झाल्याने (रक्तवाहीनीत गाठ (थ्रोम्बस) तयार होऊन रक्तपुरवठ्यास अडथळा निर्माण होतो).

२) हेमरेजिक म्हणजे मेंदूत रक्तस्त्राव झाल्याने आलेला स्ट्रोक. सर्वसाधारणपणे उच्च रक्तदाब हे अशा स्ट्रोकचं महत्त्वाचं कारण असतं.

स्ट्रोकची कोणतीही लक्षणं दिसून असल्यास त्वरित हॉस्पिटल मध्ये नेणे अत्यंत महत्त्वाचे आहे.

काही विशेष काळजी, जीवनशैलीत बदल व व्यायाम यामुळे आपण स्ट्रोक टाळू शकतो.

Happy World Stroke Day to all the brave stroke survivors !

CEREBRAL PALSY & OSTEOPOROSIS :

Osteoporosis is a secondary complication of cerebral palsy. But it can be prevented by regular inclusion of exercises such as weight bearing exercises and strength training.

सेरेब्रल पाल्सी आणि ऑस्टिओपोरोसिस:

ऑस्टियोपोरोसिस हे सेरेब्रल पाल्सी मध्ये दिसून येणारे एक दुय्यम लक्षण आहे. परंतु काही विशिष्ट व्यायामाचा नियमित समावेश करून हे प्रतिबंधित किंवा टाळता येऊ शकते.

Osteoporosis causes bones to become weak and brittle — so brittle that a fall or even mild stresses can cause a fracture.

🔹Symptoms:

There typically are no symptoms in the early stages of bone loss. But once your bones have been weakened by osteoporosis, you might have signs and symptoms that include:

▪️Back pain, caused by a fractured or collapsed vertebra
▪️Loss of height over time
▪️A stooped posture
▪️A bone that breaks much more easily than expected

🔹Causes:

Your bones are in a constant state of renewal — new bone is made and old bone is broken down.
When you're young, your body makes new bone faster than it breaks down old bone and your bone mass increases.
After the early 20s this process slows, and most people reach their peak bone mass by age 30. As people age, bone mass is lost faster than it's created.

How likely you are to develop osteoporosis depends partly on how much bone mass you attained in your youth. Peak bone mass is somewhat inherited and varies also by ethnic group. The higher your peak bone mass, the less likely you are to develop osteoporosis as you age.

🔹 Risk Factors:

Non-modifiable:

Some risk factors for osteoporosis are out of your control, including:
▪️Gender: Women are much more likely to develop osteoporosis than are men.
▪️Age: The older you get, the greater your risk of osteoporosis.
▪️Race: You're at greatest risk of osteoporosis if you're white or of Asian descent.
▪️Family history: Having a parent or sibling with osteoporosis puts you at greater risk, especially if your mother or father fractured a hip.
▪️Body frame size: Men and women who have small body frames tend to have a higher risk because they might have less bone mass to draw from as they age.

Modifiable:

▪️ Hyperthyroidism
▪️ Low Calcium intake
▪️ Long term use of some medications such as steroids and anticonvulsant
▪️ Sedentary lifestyle
▪️ Excessive alcohol consumption
▪️ To***co use
▪️ Less exposure to Sunlight

🔹 Prevention:

Good nutrition and regular exercise are essential for keeping your bones healthy throughout your life.

Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue, which can lead to increased risk of fracture.

Known as the “silent thief”, bone deterioration can occur over a number of years without any symptoms.

Unfortunately, by the time affected bones break or fracture, the disease is already fairly advanced and less treatable. The most common fractures associated with osteoporosis are in the hip, spine, wrist, and shoulder.
ऑस्टियोपोरोसिस ह्या आजारात हाडे ठिसूळ होऊ लागतात, ज्यामुळे फ्रॅक्चर होण्याचा धोका वाढू शकतो.

“मूक चोर” म्हणून ओळख असणाऱ्या या आजारात, हाडांचा बिघाड बर्‍याच वर्षांमध्ये बऱ्याचदा कोणत्याही लक्षणांशिवाय होतो.

दुर्दैवाने, ज्या वेळेस फ्रॅक्चर होतात तेव्हा हा रोग आधीच बराच प्रगत आणि कमी उपचार करण्यायोग्य झालेला असतो.

ऑस्टियोपोरोसिसशी संबंधित सर्वात सामान्य फ्रॅक्चर हे खुबा, मणका, मनगट आणि खांदा येथील हाडांमध्ये होतात.

Today is Global Handwashing Day. From this day let's wash our hands in correct way and let's protect us from getting infected with various infections.

Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission. Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent various infections including COVID-19.

So following are the steps for washing our hands and keeping them germ free.
Scrub your hands at least for 20 seconds and wash them often with soap and water.
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Role of Physiotherapy in Covid-19 Care

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What is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)?

Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, which means that your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake, causing inflammation (painful swelling) in the affected parts of the body.

RA mainly attacks the joints, usually many joints at once. RA commonly affects joints in the hands, wrists, and knees. In a joint with RA, the lining of the joint becomes inflamed, causing damage to joint tissue. This tissue damage can cause long-lasting or chronic pain, unsteadiness (lack of balance), and deformity.

RA can also affect other tissues throughout the body and cause problems in organs such as the lungs, heart, and eyes.

What are the signs and symptoms of RA?

With RA, there are times when symptoms get worse, known as flares, and times when symptoms get better, known as remission.

Signs and symptoms of RA include:

🔹Pain or aching in more than one joint
🔹Stiffness in more than one joint
🔹Tenderness and swelling in more than one joint
🔹The same symptoms on both sides of the body (such as in both hands or both knees)
🔹Weight loss
🔹Fever
🔹Fatigue or tiredness
🔹Weakness

While you may worry that exercising with osteoarthritis (OA) could harm your joints and cause more pain, research shows that people can and should exercise when they have osteoarthritis.

In fact, exercise is considered the most effective, non-drug treatment for reducing pain and improving movement and overall function in patients with osteoarthritis. And it also delays the progression of arthritis into next stage.

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Arthritis is very common but is not well understood. Actually, “arthritis” is not a single disease; it is an informal way of referring to joint pain or joint disease.

There are more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions. People of all ages, sexes and races can and do have arthritis, and it is the leading cause of disability. More than 50 million adults and 300,000 children have some type of arthritis.

It is most common among women and occurs more frequently as people get older.

Common arthritis joint symptoms include :
swelling,
pain,
stiffness and
decreased range of motion.
Symptoms may come and go. They can be mild, moderate or severe. They may stay about the same for years but can progress or get worse over time.
Severe arthritis can result in chronic pain, inability to do daily activities and make it difficult to walk or climb stairs.

Arthritis can cause permanent joint changes. These changes may be visible, such as knobby finger joints, but often the damage can only be seen on X-ray.

Some types of arthritis also affect the heart, eyes, lungs, kidneys and skin as well as the joints.

Some Facts about Cerebral Palsy

Early diagnosis and treatment of Cerebral Palsy helps in avoiding secondary complications and hence results in better outcomes.

On WORLD CEREBRAL PALSY DAY we want to introduce you to some MYTHS and FACTS about Cerebral Palsy.
So here they are....
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