Both Dr Dalton’s researches, which have been going on since 1953, and the more recent studies carried out at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, show that some women who suffer from premenstrual tension have low levels of progesterone in their bodies during the last half of their menstrual cycles. In other words, at the very time [...]
INTERACTING WITH OTHERS
One of the difficulties about being depressed, irritable or angry at school is that, so often, you’re not the only one. We know from Dr Dalton’s researches that groups of females who spend a lot of time together seem to trigger one another’s periods off, so that some of them have periods within [...]
Probably the oldest form of medicine, herbalism – also known as ‘herbal medicine’ – has a history going back at least 3,000 years. First developed in ancient China, herbalism is based on the therapeutic uses of various plant parts – root, bark, stem, flowers, leaf, and even seeds – in different preparations, either for internal [...]
There are essentially two main ways of reducing stress:
To identify the sources of your stress and where possible seek either to reduce or eliminate these; and/or
To find ways to enable you to cope better with those sources of stress you can neither reduce nor avoid.
The most effective way to get your stress level down is [...]
While there is a direct correlation between your sleeping pattern and back pain and sciatica, how well you sleep is also likely to have a major effect on your overall health and stress levels, which in turn may also affect your back problems. Here are some extra facts about sleep that underline the importance of [...]
Although the above seems like a simple enough question that should evoke an equally simple answer, the truth is that, as is so often the case, experts do have widely differing views. What’s more, what is a good and comfortable bed for one person is not necessarily so for the next, as what suits best [...]
How well you sleep and what kind of bed you sleep on can affect your sciatica or back pain in several important ways:
As we’ve already seen, posture affects the spine – and that also applies to the posture you adopt when you’re in bed. It stands to reason that lying for hours on end in [...]
Doctors always know when spring has sprung. They start getting visits from gardeners – both young and old – who, getting back to work in the garden after the winter, have damaged their muscles.
The difficulties arise not just because of the sudden onset of activity in the cold and damp – but also because of [...]
Posture – that is how the various parts of your body are positioned at a given time – will greatly affect how much pressure is exerted upon your spine as well as, perhaps more importantly, how that pressure is exerted. As we’ve seen, the spine is at best a somewhat unstable structure whose design is [...]
Posture – that is how the various parts of your body are positioned at a given time – will greatly affect how much pressure is exerted upon your spine as well as, perhaps more importantly, how that pressure is exerted. As we’ve seen, the spine is at best a somewhat unstable structure whose design is [...]