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In a recent press release, Craig Ballantyne, a certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and fat loss expert and whose health articles frequently find space in Men’s Health and Oxygen magazines, revealed certain secrets to attain a flat tummy and Abs. As an expert trainer in the field of men’s health, Craig promises optimum results without spending long hours on workout.
He has enlisted certain abdominal exercises which could be done at the comfort of home to burn fat in the tummy area along with focus on lower Abs. Contrary to the popular belief, he says that spot reduction of fat and working out the lower abs could be easily done without visiting a Gym in time for summer. His amazing lower abs workout promises to give one utmost fat burning and body-sculpting results in minimum time. He has devised certain special abdominal exercises which could help in flattening the lower abs.
The researchers at ‘Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation (BIR)’, named among the top rehabilitation hospitals in the US in 2007, are on the way to devise a new way for the rehabilitation of the Stroke Patients. This institute is a non profit organization providing rehabilitation services to the survivors of traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, or those suffering from other orthopedic and neurological disorders.
There are around 700,000 cases of heart stroke in a year. These patients are unable to retain their ability to walk as they did before the stroke. However the physical therapists have come up with a new way using a specialized kind of treadmill.
The results of the study would soon appear in the April issue of the ‘Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’.
The “Thrombus Aspiration during Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TAPAS)” study has announced the results during the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with ACC i2 Summit in Chicago. The study was conducted for a year and patients suffering from “ST-Elevation acute Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)” participated in the study. STEM1 is a type of heart attack.
The study talked about a special catheter which can be effectively used to vacuum out the loose scrap of plaque and blood clot that break loose during “Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)”. This helps in increasing the blood flow in the heart muscle of the patients who are experiencing a heart attack. The TAPAS study has analyzed that the clinical outcomes which were clear at 30 days were still found to be good after one year due to deep myocardial perfusion.
“The Journal of Neurology” has recently published a new study which brought up an interesting link between increase in the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia decades later, if you are in your 40s and have belly fat. Dr. Randolph, author of “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” also commented about this new finding and said that ‘Estrogen Dominance’ can be taken as that missing link which seems to be playing important role.
C.W. Randolph, co-author of the newly released best selling book “From Belly Fat to Belly Flat” says that he is not surprised by the results of this study. He further adds that the traditional medical community took long to establish the link and the most unfortunate thing is still many doctors and patients are unable to understand the underlying causes of neurological function, being impaired due to weight gain and storage of fat in the belly area.
Pharmaxis has recently circulated ‘IOC Consensus Statement on Asthma in Elite Athletes’ in which it declared Aridol (mannitol) to get an approval as test by the “International Olympic Committee’s independent Medical Commission”. These athletes are competing in the Beijing Olympics.The IOC Medical Commission focused on finding whether the elite athletes were diagnosed correctly and they were administered the correct therapy for asthma. The commission didn’t test the efficacy of the treatments known as beta-2 agonists however it recommended a bronchial provocation examination like Aridol to diagnose asthma in Olympians.
There has been an increase in the occurrence of respiratory symptoms like recurrent breathlessness, cough, wheezing, chest tightness and excessive mucous production in the athletes, which may suggest prevalence of asthma. However these symptoms could not be singly relied upon to make a diagnosis of asthma in an athlete. Moreover, there is a possibility of the clinical examination to be normal so certain objective tests like spirometry are required to confirm the diagnosis.
