Why should people do stretching? Stiffness and tension in the muscles may occur not only because of sports, it can also occur because of bad postures, and also because of stress and bad habits at the desk.

“The main benefit of stretching is flexibility,” said James Sutherlan from Balmain Sports Physiotherapy in Sydney, Australia. Wondering what other benefits we can get?

This is the answer:
1. Keeping muscles supple and long. Especially for people who get older, because aging shortenes the muscles and ligaments.
2. Relaxation. Stretching will relieve muscle tension and stiffness.
3. Preventing the lack of  flexibility as we get older.
4. Reducing the damaged joints, which can result in reducing joint pain.
5. Making better posture and correct the imbalance in the body due to muscle rigidity.
6. Sleep better.
7. Improve energy and blood circulation.
8. Reducing the risk of injury by balancing the body.
9. Relieve muscle pain after exercise.
10. Improve physical appearance.

Guidelines for Stretching
- Stretch everywhere: in front of the television, at work, or in the car.
- Can also do this stretch in pairs or using a tool to modify the stretch.
- Stretch as part of cooling during exercise.
- Stretch for at least 10-30 seconds.
- Do not stretch more than 1 minute.
- Do not hold your breath during the stretch. Conversely, do deep breathing exercises to increase the supply of oxygen to the muscles during the relaxation process.
- Do not do the stretching in a state of muscle pain.
- Do not apply excessive stretch when you’re pregnant because during the condition, the vulnerable ligament could easily be injured.

Have ever you felt the pain in the feet or hands in the morning? If you have, then you must be alert and immediately find ways to overcome them. It may be that you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. This disease can cause permanent disability and even premature death.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that attacks the joint tissue. It is possibly also attack other organs. If it is not treated immediately, there will be joint damage and disability, and even premature death. Rheumatoid arthritis is not an independent disease, but rather a group of diseases. But the cause is still unknown.

The disease is caused by many factors. Can be genetic, could also be due to an unhealthy lifestyle. If any family members who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, chances are the child or offspring suffer the same disease. Unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking may like to increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

It is a general think that all of rheumatic diseases are caused by uric acid. Whereas rheumatic disease because of uric acid (gout arthritis) is only approximately 7 percent of the rheumatic diseases. This disease can attack all people, both children and adults. But the most frequently attacked are young adults to the elderly.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that is widespread and involves all racial and ethnic groups in the world.  It usually starts in children before the age of 16 years. Generally, this disease attacks the joints of the fingers, wrists, shoulders, knees, and feet. At an advanced stage, patients will not be able to perform daily activities and quality of life decreases.

Factors Causes and Symptoms

Autoimmune disease occurs because of interference with the normal functioning of the immune system, so that the immune system attack the body’s own tissue. It could also be due to the failure of antibodies to recognize his own body cells and considered a foreign body so destructive.

Rheumatoid arthritis attacks the joints wrapped in a layer commonly called sinovium and cause inflammation of the joints wrappers. Result sinovitis (inflammation of the sinovium) that chronic damage to joint cartilage, bone, tendons and ligaments in the joints. Inflammation causes sinovium out some substances that undermined cartilage cells, causing damage to bone and may result in the disappearance of the joint surface that would interfere with joint motion. If it is not immediately treated, can occur permanent disability.

Rheumatoid arthritis usually causes problems in several joints in the same time.

In the early stages, this disease usually attacks the small joints such as wrists, hands, ankles, and feet. Next it will attack shoulder joint,  elbows, knees, hips, jaw, and neck. Generally, this disease attacks the joints of the fingers, wrists, shoulders, knees, and feet.  This situation will occur in the morning and will disappear in the afternoon.

Other symptoms include fever, decreased appetite, weight loss, weakness, and less blood. Sometimes the patient does not feel the symptoms.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Diagnosis is usually established from the patient history. Diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis can be said positively when the patient is experiencing as described above for 6 weeks.They will also be carried out laboratory and radiology tests to determine the condition of the patient’s joints.

It can also be carried out joint fluid analysis. The doctor will take joint fluid with a sterile needle, and joint fluid will be analyzed whether there are elevated levels of leukocytes or not.

The goal of treatment is to reduce joint inflammation and prevent or slow joint damage that can cause permanent disability. Besides treatment is also intended to prevent muscle weakness. Early treatment is to improve the comfort and maintain the independence of patients in order not to depend on others.

Previously, the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms start to eliminate the pain such as reducing swelling dab pain. Now, treatment is intended to stop the disease in order not to continue, to prevent loss of joint function, and prevent disability, thus preventing premature death. In the future, treatments directed to reduce the disease despite treatment is stopped.

Treatment of this disease is divided into two, namely treatment with drugs and therapies such as physiotherapy, psychological, and surgery. Lack of drug consuming could occur side effects, the use of fairly complex procedures, slow effects, and the failure rate is quite large.

If the various treatments have been carried out and did not succeed and there is a strong enough reason, it is recommended for surgery. Surgery is an option if the provision of drugs failed to prevent and slow down joint damage. Surgery can restore function to damaged joints.

Headaches can be caused by many things such as stress, a stinging smell or a symptom of certain diseases. But sex can also be a cause of headache, it is called coital cephalgia.

Headache due to Sexual intercourse (coital cephalgia) can occur when a person masturbates or any other type of sexual activities, for some people, a certain sexual positions can cause headaches. This condition is 1 of 360 types of headaches.

In general, men and women have the same level of this type of headache. But men have a headache due to levels of sex in particular. This is due to the fact that men tend to become more active, has excessive orgasm, and masturbates more often than women.

While  in women, it may occur over the age of 40, just beginning an exercise program or have had other headaches such as migraine headache that can cause headaches when having sex. In addition there are also studies that prove that 6 weeks after birth could be one risk factor.

This type of headache is divided into three basic types which are light, medium or fast headache but it goes on and on. There is also an orgasmic headache that can occur suddenly and severe.

Headache caused by sex at first felt only at the base of the skull, but over time can be felt throughout the head. These headaches do not happen every time when having sex, for some people it occurs after years of contact.

As quoted from Womenshealth, Wednesday (10/3/2010) sex can increase blood pressure which in turn can increase the pressure in the head and also cause tightening and muscle tension.

Sex headaches is a combination of blood pressure and muscle tension, in some cases low blood pressure of fluid around the brain and spine.

In some rare cases, sex headaches is an early symptoms of health problems such as meningitis, bleeding within the skull, tumors, stroke and various endocrine disorders.

In women, if pain is more severe, it is usually accompanied by other symptoms such as numbness, weakness, numbness, changes in vision and disorientation.

The treatment needed is not different from other headaches. To prevent this, one can take blood pressure medicine or headache medicine a few hours before having sex and also change sex positions.

Headache during sexual intercourse can increase the anxiety and feelings of calm that would be a problem for the couple, so sometimes counseling assistance is needed.

If various ways have been tried but do not show good results then the pair could only wait. This is because the headache often just disappears by it self after a few weeks or months.

Sex activity now is growing beyond the physical aspect. The study has found that the key to be looked young and vibrant is a healthy sex life and satisfying.

Sex is a physical action that stimulates the body and mind. With proper diet, regular exercise, take vitamins, and healthy sex life, you could  get older with a healthy process. So as confirmed by Carefair.

Young skin is influenced by a healthy body. It is widely known that sex is very effective for  muscles activity, increase heart rate, and even help you sleep better after having sex. Having regular sex is also very good for increasing stamina, muscle, and liver.

One of the most important reasons to have sex regularly, is to lower stress levels. We know that stress can effect you in various ways, including your skin elasticity. How often stress produces a bad effect on your skin? With the stress level decreases, your skin will appear healthy and fresh.

Sex is not limited to the energetic young age of 20-30s. Having a regular sex life and health should also be a focal point for the middle age. Studies show that physical and mental health should be improved and maintained by people aged 50 years, also the older.

Lack of sexual activity makes you more vulnerable to diseases, such as joint pain, heart attack, and even prostate cancer. Sex health benefits, including releasing toxins or substances causing cancer, heart health, and reduce the chances of heart disease.

For middle-aged or older, you may want to add a multivitamin to keep your sex life. Additional benefits of certain vitamins and minerals is very important in keeping your sexual performance in bed.

For an example vitamin B could  maintain energy levels and stamina, increase iron and improve the immune system, vitamin E carries oxygen to the muscles and liver, and the fight against radical antioxidant flavonoids and maintain lung function properly.

After thousands of years of various studies, the mysterious side of the human brain is starting to unfold . There are several facts that previously might not have thought of.

The brain is one of the most amazing organ in the human body, because it can control the central nervous system to work normally.

The human brain is complex and consists of about 100 billion nerve (neuron) and there are so many things going on in the brain with a variety of different areas. Therefore the brain is one of the vital organs in human life.

As quoted from HowStuffWorks, Friday (5/3/2010) Here are some facts about the human brain which are not yet widely known:

1. The brain remains active even though the head is not attached to the bodey.
Based on the observations of several stories, it is known that the human brain can remain active for a few seconds after the head is cut off. But doctors believe that this is a reflection of muscle twitching.

Dr Harold Hillman, a former director of the Unity Laboratory of Applied Neural Biology at the University of Surrey said that the death occurred because of the separation of the brain with the spinal cord, but it is painful so many countries do not enforce this method.

2. The brain can learn subconsciously message.
The brain can learn the message that comes from a person unconscious so that later will affect the behavior of the person. Many companies use this as a campaign event in order to influence someone to buy its products.

3. Drugs can cause holes in the brain.
One study says the use of drugs like marijuana can remove  some memory, while for drugs such as cocaine or ecstasy can cause holes in the brain. Actually the only thing that can cause holes in the brain is the result of trauma or physical impact.

In addition to a study from New Scientist that the use of drugs long term can cause abnormal growth of the brain that are permanent, it is difficult to change the behavior of an addict.

4. The colour of Human brain is gray.
Some parts of the body has its own color to blood, tissue, bone or other fluids. But if the human brain preserved in a jar while still beating mostly gra.

While the black component is called the substantia nigra, which is a black neuromelanin, which is a special pigment similar to skin and hair color and a border of the basal ganglia.

5. The human brain is the biggest brain.
Some animals can use his brain to do things done by humans. But in fact the human brain big size compared to the brains of any animal. The average weight of adult human brain of 1.361 pounds, the weight is almost the same as dolphins animals regarded as intelligent animals.

But the weight of the brain compared to body size, so that the human brain still the greatest. Also intelligence is also associated with various components in the brain, and mammals have the largest cerebral cortex responsible for memory function, communication and thinking.