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What Is Muscular Dystrophy?

There are several different types of muscular dystrophy, diseases characterized by progressive muscle weakness and expense.

Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy primarily affects the muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles) and heart muscle. The earliest symptoms are joint deformities called contractions that restrict the movement of the elbows, ankles and neck. Affected individuals also experience muscle weakness and progresses slowly spending the upper arms and lower legs and moving your shoulders and hips. Before adulthood, most people with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy have heart problems. These come from abnormal heart rhythms and defects with electrical signals that control the heartbeat. Untreated, these heart problems may lead to a slow heartbeat, fainting, increased risk of stroke, and increased risk of sudden death.
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What is progressive muscle relaxation?

It’s a relaxation technique that is based on the principles of Jacobson, who found that stress and systematic relaxation of various muscle groups almost completely eliminates muscle contractures, and a feeling of deep relaxation. While it is particularly indicated in psychosomatic disorders such as Lamaze or preventive habit may be recommended to almost everyone to deal with stressful situations of everyday life.

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In recent years the words “tension“, “anxiety” and “stress” have entered our everyday language to describe certain states often suffer disturbing, especially those who live in big cities.

Tension and anxiety are normal psychophysiological mechanisms that are activated for our body and mind to be alert so that we can meet our daily activities, you can even say that the need for life. “Stress” is a controversial term, but it could easily be defined as an altered state resulting from imbalance between the demands of the environment, whether real or subjective, and resources available to us to face them.
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Who has not heard of the famous lace? Who would not have ever hurt your knees, shoulder or other body part after having begun to exercise after a long period of inactivity? It’s what I call “collateral damage” in exercise or sports. I’m going to focus on breaking down the myth of “soreness”. We will try to explain why they occur and how we can avoid them.

Most of the population that has made exercise at the amateur level in high performance even suffered what is commonly called “soreness.” But what are they?, “Lactic acid crystallized as some say?. Do not be fooled.

The “braid”, also called DOMS (soreness Delayed Onset Muscular) or DMT (delayed muscle pain) are sore muscles that appear just hours after completing the exercise and reach a peak of pain between 24 and 48 hours later. These pains are due to overuse that involves eccentric activity type preference (when the muscle lengthens) in subjects not accustomed to it. Usually the pains are located in areas where the muscle has been stretched more and more stress endured during contraction, causing destruction microstructural level muscle (muscle tissue).
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Cramp, jerk, that I up the ball, which I mounted the muscle. We have heard and experienced many times that hateful feeling: The Cramp. And there are many factors that may cause its onset, overheating, dehydration, muscle fatigue, loss of electrolytes, insufficient training and not stretching, as the Sport Life magazine. A wide variety of conditions associated with muscle cramps. There are some induced by certain drugs or medications (such as salbutamol, alcohol), other electrolyte disturbances generated (due to vomiting and diarrhea), as well as a symptom of some neurological diseases and nerve root compression. However, the most common are produced by heat and those occurring in athletes, caused by exercise, explained from Universia.

A) Internal factors:

The following parameters must be balanced to avoid risks:

- Balance of salts and electrolytes.
- Existence of energy reserves in muscle (glycogen).
- Balanced nutritional state before and during sports.

It should also consider:

- Perform heating and stretching of muscles, focusing specifically on areas of greatest need and taking into account the type of activity performed.
- Proper posture: A refined technique when performing the tasks and exercise and perform correctly supports eliminates chance of injury.
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There are two types of exercises:

1) Respiratory:

Lying on your back, knees bent. Place one hand on the chest and one in the gut. It seeks to work a deep breath for this, just hand the chest should rise, and shall note the elevation of the hand located on the gut, this is the way to verify the correct execution of the exercise.

2) Stretching:

It is essential, as is stressed in any exercise stretching does not reach the threshold of pain during the execution thereof, only for a small stretch sensation.

2.1 .- Stretch 1:

Lying on your back with knees bent, take air, take your knees to your chest until you feel the stretch in your lower back as he let it out, grabbing air halfway through if necessary – It is important to stand in the time to take a breath and breathing out while advancing the stretch.
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Low back pain is considered an indefinite pathology encompasses different types of disease located in the lower back. Its diagnosis is often very common and widespread, but the term itself does not provide information beyond mere semantics “lumbar pain” without explaining the cause, motive or the exact location of the lesion.

Backache
The lumbar area is situated on the lower back area and consists of five free vertebrae articulate with each other, with the exception of the fifth lumbar (L5) articulates with the sacrum. On the top is built with so-called twelfth dorsal vertebra (D12). In addition to these vertebrae, the area is made up of muscle complex in what stands out for its volume, power and importance, the quadratus muscle located on either side of the column, which generates the movement of the area.

The lumbar spine allows flexion, extension, rotation and lateral flexion. Houses the final part of the spinal cord, called “horsetail”, hence the 5 lumbar disk start by the side holes of each vertebra to the bones, muscles, ligaments and skin of the inguinal, lumbar and members lower.

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1. Oral diseases that may cause injury

1.1) Malocclusion
a) Definition: This is defined as a degree of inappropriate contact between the teeth of the upper and lower jaw or mandible.

b) Problems arising: Can cause problems with bite, gum tissue, jaw joint, speech and aesthetics. Can cause imbalance at the level of the temporomandibular joint, and this is directly related to the spine. Differentiating also in trouble not only in this structure but those associated with the lower limbs. Increasing the risk of spraining or pathologies caused by that imbalance is higher.

1.2) Caries
a) Definition: A disease of destructive nature that affects the structure of teeth, one of the most common pathologies in any adult human being. This caused by a bacteria called cariogenic, which have the capacity to adhere to tooth surfaces and produce acids capable of degrading the parts, causing erosion cracks.

This type of bacteria are favored in their development by foods rich in sugars. The outside of the teeth is made of a hard layer of enamel, while inside, which is soft, are the vessels and nerves. When the decay reaches the nerve, is the sensation of pain, and may even be necessary to extract the tooth.
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Cholesterol
Cholesterol is a fatty substance from two sources: their own body and some foods. The liver makes the cholesterol necessary and sufficient for the normal functioning of the body.

The body uses cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that help digest fat. It takes only a small amount of cholesterol in the blood to meet these needs.
Cholesterol is the main sterol in the human body and precursor of all other steroids body. It is part of cell membranes, lipoproteins, bile acids and steroid hormones.

Cholesterol is an important constituent of gallstones, but its main pathological feature, is for the production of atherosclerosis of vital arteries causing heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease.

The animal-derived foods are rich in cholesterol, especially eggs, dairy and meat. Most of this is in esterified form.

The body absorbs about half the cholesterol content in the diet. Plant sterols are poorly absorbed by the body.

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About Asthma

Asthma is a respiratory illness that is manifested by periods during which the airways constrict. During a crisis, opening airways is reduced because of inflammation and contraction of the muscles of the bronchial wall. A crisis is often a dry cough, followed by difficulty breathing, which causes wheezing clearly audible.

Two periods of life seem more conducive to asthma: the childhood and early forties. People with asthma have an incentive to monitor their treatment and to adjust their lifestyles accordingly. Poorly controlled asthma symptoms can transform sporadic in permanent symptoms.

Symptoms

For some people, asthma is distinguished only by a persistent cough which often occurs at bedtime or after exercise.

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