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Music can improve an athlete 's performance, by changing the tension in their muscles. Listening to music helps to release muscle tension, which in turn improves the body’s movement and coordination (How Music Affects Us And Promotes Health). When the muscles are loose, the body can perform action with less difficulty. During the rehabilitation of people with movement disorders, music can “play an important role in developing, maintaining and, restoring physical functions (How Music Affects Us…

Pets are often considered beloved members of our family. Besides being adoring friends that live in our homes, pets are also known to have beneficial effects on our health. One particular area of research that is being expanded is the effect that pets have on our mental health, as well as their usefulness as a form of therapy. We are already seeing service animals trained to deal with specific types of mental illness, but even animals undesignated to service seem to provide benefits just by…

What is cholesterol ? Cholesterol is a fatty substance (lipid) that has a waxy appearance and found in the body cells of humans and animals, particularly the brain, kidneys, and liver. High amounts of cholesterol in our diets and blood can be viewed negatively because it is associated with coronary heart disease. 1 However, it is important to recognize that our bodies need cholesterol in many different ways. Cholesterol is a member of a large group of substances called steroid, which include…

ANEQ 305 Muscles in Racehorses There are many ways in which researchers can examine muscles of thoroughbred racehorses. They can look at the amount of, and different types of muscle fibers found in thoroughbreds, the muscles ability to adapt to high intensive exercise, the effects from changing the inclination the horse is exercising on, and if age and gender affect the way the muscles react. The thoroughbred horse stems back to a founder stallion that makes up 95% paternal and 9 to 10…

actually helping us get better qualified work done, the quality of our work is actually lower than if we were to be doing it one at a time . A study at the University of London also adds how multitasking raises the production of a hormone called cortisol, or the stress hormone, which leaves us tired out, and lowers our work…

The term allostatic load has been used as an indicator of the burden that the human body withstands throughout their life experiences and also how it adapts to such challenges. By focusing on this term, we can begin to understand how social and environmental factors impact the physiological response in the human body. My research has been focusing on chronic diseases and its risk factors, one of them is metabolic syndrome. This syndrome parallels the concept of allostatic load because it serves…

Music therapy is the one of the most important study field in the today’s medicine. It through utilizes the sound frequencies and rhythm to treat patient as physical therapy. Different types of music have different function for the patients during their treatment. In the article entitled Music as Medicine post in November 2013, Amy Novotney express how music therapy can improve patients’ health and state a series of function of music in the current medical. This essay will explore that music…

is increased with every race completed, and was up to 30 per cent higher for those who competed year-on-year for a period of five years. Exercise intensity also affected results; those who finished fastest were at higher risk for arrhythmia. When cortisol is in the bloodstream, more bone tissue is broken down than is deposited. This means that exercise addicts, whose bodies remains in a chronic state of stress, put themselves at higher risk of fractures and breakage (Hodges, 2017). Studies into…

(Saladin 66). This will cause the body to be stimulated to internally produce more cholesterol. Cholesterol is needed by the body in many ways. It is used to synthesize other steroids in the body such as progesterone, testosterone, estrogens, and cortisol. It also synthesizes bile salts used to digest fat. Cholesterol also helps to build cell wall membranes and make vitamin D.…

This is an introduction into use of music therapy used in cognitive and medical rehabilitation. Used very extensively in Europe most notably studied in detail by the university of Oslo in Norway. Looking at the methods of the studies using the scientific method for forming a theory that music has a beneficial effect on rehabilitation and improving cognitive function in children and patients with severe neurological and cognitive disorders. In fact, it is being used as a method of pain management…