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Title :	Muscle Weakness after Unilateral Knee Replacement
Content :	Knee and thigh muscles show weakness after unilateral knee replacement at ten months after surgery and probably longer. Researchers writing in Physical Therapy have investigated muscle strength and the cross-sectional size of the thigh muscles after this operation. At ten months post-operatively ... More

Title :	Chronic Pain is Nerve Pain
Content :	Chronic pain, such as low back pain, neck pain or leg pain, can set in train a negative series of events which include poor sleep, depression, work loss, limited activity, over medication and loss of mental sharpness. Chronic pain can develop in conditions such as diabetes where the nerve are compromised ... More

Title :	Are Children "Exercising Less"?
Content :	The British Heart Foundation has surveyed the activity levels of a thousand children and concluded that only one out of eight is getting in their recommended sixty minutes of activity per day. Apparently a fifth thought you only needed to do exercise if you were fat. The article was reported in the ... More

Title :	Lower Back Pain, Is There A Walking Cure?
Content :	Back pain is very common and results in significant amounts of pain, disability and cost throughout the population of most if not all states. New forms of therapy are continually being introduced into this very active market, offering lower back pain relief. One of the latest, reported in the ... More

Title :	Physiotherapists Focus On Unfit Children
Content :	Large numbers of children do not do enough exercise to keep themselves healthy and so face poor health as adults, according to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy report "Fit for the Future - How healthy and active are our children?" The findings indicate that about 30 percent of children are ... More

Title :	Fibromyalgia Pain and Neurological Signs
Content :	Fibromyalgia is a puzzling pain syndrome which affects mostly females and occurs in around two to four percent of the population. Typical symptoms of fibromyalgia are chronic widespread pain, tenderness, fatigue, poor sleep and intolerance of exercise. A recent study published in Arthritis and Rheumatism ... More

Title :	Exercise For The Elderly To Stay Healthy
Content :	Dr Marilyn Moffat, president of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy, has been in Bermuda recently, spreading the word about how exercise is essential for people of all ages to reach and maintain their potential. Dr Moffat suggested that elderly people who want to take up an exercise regime should ... More

Title :	Heavy Backpacks Can Cause Lower Back Pain
Content :	Backpacks are very common in schoolchildren and students but a significant number of students report neck and back pain due to the use of rucksacks of varying kinds. Ergonomic experts have set a level for the weight of a backpack at no more than 15% of the weight of the child. Heavier items should ... More

Title :	Pelvic Floor Exercises - National Continence Awareness Week
Content :	Urinary incontinence is an important issue affecting mostly, but not exclusively, women after childbirth. In the UK the National Continence Awareness Week is from the 21-25 September 2009. A DVD has been produced, featuring Nell McAndrew the model, demonstrating the pelvic floor exercises. Some physiotherapists ... More

Title :	Improve your bone density? Exercise by walking.
Content :	Walking as an exercise can improve the bone density in the femoral neck in women after menopause, although it has no real effect on the spine, a highlighted paper has shown. The paper, published in Bone in September 2008, reviewed and analysed many research papers on the subject on bone density, exercise ... More