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10 Health & Wellness Benefits of Selenium Selenium is an essential mineral that plays a significant role in health. A balanced plant-based diet should provide enough selenium to keep you well. However, some circumstances deplete the body's selenium levels, including smoking, drinking alcohol, taking oral contraceptives, and having certain health conditions like ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. Find out the incredible health and wellness benefits of selenium below. Then, reap the…

When working in a care setting, especially with service users with physical disabilities, workers need to acknowledge that the service users are vulnerable to abuse. This is because people with physical disabilities are so much more dependent on care givers to supply them with the support they need in order to live clean and healthy lives. Two of the main types of abuse that care workers will face when working with vulnerable and disabled service users are physical abuse and neglect. NSPCC…

According to Stem Cell Reviews, it is estimated that as many as 128M individuals in the United States, or 1 in 3 people might benefit from regenerative medicine. Those statistics are eye-opening for the nurse life care planner because regenerative medicine will eventually become a viable treatment modality for so many of those individuals with whom the nurse life care planner is called upon to assist with preparation of a future care plan. Regenerative medicine is the process of creating…

CBD oil has a number of benefits. It has been shown to help treat a number of conditions, such as arthritis, seizures, pain and nausea. However, if you are thinking about using CBD oil, then there are a number of things that you will need to know beforehand. What You Should Know Before You Use CBD Vape Oil It Should Not Be Used As A Substitution For Any Medical Treatment Many people use CBD oil to treat an illness. While CBD oil can be effective, you should not stop taking any treatment that…

When looked back at, this may have been due to Simpson having a problem with rheumatoid arthritis due to his previous professional football career. (Huizenga, 1995) It was stated by Robert Kardashian in “The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story” that O.J Simpson had stopped taking his rheumatoid arthritis medication one month before being asked to put the gloves on during the trial. This would have made the knuckles on his hands inflamed.…

Bob Mortimer Family and Biography With his hilarious jokes and whimsical act, he cracked up everyone he ever came across. He is none other than the greatest comedian of all time Robert Renwick Mortimer, popularly known by his stage name Bob Mortimer. He is widely known for his stand-up comedy in his native land England and as well as internationally. The 57 year old comedian started his first comedy programme along with his long time business partner, comedian Vic Reeves in 1986. Mortimer’s…

osteonecrosis of the femur. If the patient is showing signs of hematoma, loss of pulses, and pallor, a vascular injury is likely (McMillan, 2016). Any muscles in the hip region may also be stretched, torn, or otherwise damaged in a hip dislocation. Arthritis is a common long-term complication of hip dislocation due to damage of the articular cartilage. Myositis ossificans, the growth of bone tissue inside muscle tissue, can occur from soft tissue damage (Gammons,…

how they feel day to day, and more. In the article “Marijuana Has Been Proven to Effectively Treat Many Medical Conditions” it states that “Cannabis provides both analgesia and anti-inflammatory relief for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, complex sympathetic dystrophy and restless leg syndrome” (Bearman, David 4). Analgesia and anti-inflammatory dieses get in the way of everyday tasks, medical marijuana has proven multiple time to help with everyday illness, that…

Disease prevention is crucial to sustain good health and well-being. The best way to stop disease is to prevent it from occurring to begin with. With early detection of diseases, we increase the overall possibility of treatment and recovery. Taking on a wellness approach is a great step in disease prevention because it allows an individual to look at the underlying cause of a disease and then make the necessary lifestyle changes to optimize their overall existence. Understanding and applying the…

Spinal Stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal or of the spaces between the vertebrae where spinal nerves pass through. The narrowing can typically be caused by arthritis or injury. The vertebrae can form bone spurs. These are bony growths that pinch the spinal cord or the nerves branching from the spinal cord (Spinal Stenosis). The discs can shrink and make the space between the vertebrae smaller. This can cause the vertebrae to pinch the nerves that pass through them (Spinal Stenosis).…