The No. 22 World AIDS Day is coming on December 1, 2009. A survey from China shows that in China more than 2,000 AIDS-infected persons had the experience of discrimination. Many government officials, teachers and even medical workers discriminate against AIDS patients. A lot of works on preventing AIDS and eliminating discrimination against AIDS had been done by government department of health, medical institutions and non-governmental organizations since the first AIDS patients was found in 1985 in China, but 24 years have passed, the public still have strong discrimination to AIDS-infected persons. So it is time for our government officials and medical workers to reflect why there is no right knowledge and attitude to AIDS-infected persons. Read the rest of this entry »
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The therapy most often taught to deal with acute injury uses the acronym RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. While it is important to give an injured body part rest, it is equally important to not rest it too much. The R in RICE should stand for Range of Motion, according to many sports therapists. In fact, the developer and main teacher of Soft Tissue Release, Stuart Taws, uses the acronym MICE (Movement, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) for his method of therapy. Read the rest of this entry »
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