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Don’t Let Chronic Back Pain Limit Your Brain Power
December 2nd, 2009
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Chronic back pain is one of the most vexing problems that you can have. Not being able to find comfort in any position and the resulting problems.
You can work on back pain by helping your back get stronger and healthier. Remember pain pills are ok to take if you really need them but they don’t solve the underlying problem.
You can begin to address the problem by noticing your posture and beginning to correct it when it is poor. Massage is good. Getting your back more flexible can also help, check out: Kundalini Yoga. There are also more traditional exercises – there is a good video at the end of this post that you should watch. These are just a couple of ideas to help resolve your back problems.
Don’t Let Chronic Back Pain Limit Your Brain Power
You don’t need to be a scientist to know that chronic back pain can have a negative impact on your life, often bringing with it anxiety and depression. It can affect your ability to work, sleep, and perform other daily activities.
Until recently, it has been assumed that whatever changes occurred in the brain as a result of chronic back pain were only temporary and that the brain would revert to a normal state once the pain stopped.
Recent findings by researchers from Northwestern University have turned this assumption on its head. What they found was that chronic back pain — defined as pain lasting six months or longer — can cause significant and long-lasting damage to the brain, aging it up to 20 times faster than normal.¹
The Northwestern study is consistent with other research on chronic pain and cognitive ability.
Evidence of a link between chronic pain and brain function comes from a study done at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Scientists compared the “prospective” memory — such as remembering to pick up groceries or keep a doctor’s appointment — of 50 subjects with chronic back pain to the memory of 50 subjects who were pain-free.
Investigators used something called the Prospective Memory Questionnaire, a self-rating scale that requires users to record the number of times their prospective memory fails in a given period of time. The scale measures three types of prospective memory: long-term habitual, short-term episodic, and internally cued.
Those with chronic pain had significantly impaired short-term memory compared with subjects who were pain-free. No differences were observed in the other types of prospective memory.
Researchers believe that when pain kicks in, it triggers a region of the brain known as the lateral occipital complex (LOC). When this happens, it overrides a person’s ability to concentrate and accurately recognize images.
You can help preserve your short-term memory — even if you do live with chronic pain — by following these easy tips.
Read out loud
If you want to remember something, saying the words out loud will help burn the information into your brain. If you can turn it into a rhyme, it’s even better.
Write things down
Mental clutter makes it hard to recall data. Use address books, datebooks, and calendars. Jot down notes on more complicated material and reorganize your notes as soon as possible. The physical act of rewriting can help imprint facts into your memory.
Rehearse and review
Go over what you’ve learned the day you learn it, and review it periodically. Researchers call this “spaced rehearsal.” It has proven to be more effective than cramming.
Get your vitamins
Nutrients such as vitamins B, C, and E can nurture brain function. Dietary sources of vitamin B include spinach and other dark leafy greens, strawberries, melons, and black beans. Vitamins C and E improve the flow of oxygen through the brain. Good natural sources are berries, sweet potatoes, red tomatoes, green tea, nuts, citrus fruits, and liver. Omega-3 fatty acids found in cold-water fish such as salmon and tuna are also associated with improved cognitive function.
Surprise your brain
Another way to help your brain perform better is to stimulate it through novelty. For example, brushing your teeth with your left hand (if you’re right-handed) will fire up seldom-used connections on the non-dominant side of your brain. Or try “neurobic” exercise, which forces you to use your faculties in unusual ways — say, getting dressed with your eyes closed, taking a course in a subject you know nothing about, or cooking a recipe in an unfamiliar cuisine.
Reference
1. The Journal of Neuroscience, November 17, 2004; 24(46):10410-10415.
[Ed. Note: Jesse Cannone is a certified fitness trainer, rehabilitation specialist and co-founder of the Healthy Back Institute. For more information on how you can reduce or completely eliminate your pain naturally, click here.]
This article appears courtesy of Early to Rise’s Total Health Breakthroughs which offers alternative health solutions for mind, body and soul.
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Yoga Guru Suneel Singh (Yoga for Good Memory)
September 28th, 2008
Newage yoga Guru Suneel Singh is a classic example of modernity and tradition. While at one time you catch him flexing his body with various types of yoga asanas, at some other time you can see the media-friendly yoga teacher sharing his knowledge on yoga and other topics with the media. Based in Delhi, Suneel Singh is a person who has perfectly integrated age old traditional forms of yoga with newer and other forms of exercise to suit the urban lot. And his reach is quite widespread as he has been successfully conducting preventive health care workshops, focusing on fitness and health care solutions for ailments like Obesity, Diabetes, Neck pain, Arthritis, Stress, Insomnia, Heart problems, mental tension and depression etc. Thousands of people have been benefited by incorporating yoga taught by the Guru himself, which he simply blends into one’s everyday life. He is one of the first yoga gurus in India, who cures his patients by using simple tools like Zodiac Sign, Hasya Yoga and Yoga-Chi in order to treat them in a holistic way, like for instance yoga-chi which is a new thought pattern very similar to Dhyan.
Suneel Singh is a multifaceted personality and has been conducting workshops for corporate-house, various leading modeling institutes, five star hotels, Multinational Companies and Bureaucrats. He has taught various film stars the skills of yoga to maintain a healthy life and fit body. His yoga teachings are also being telecast by channels like AajTak, ZEE NEWS, D.D. National, Star News Channel-7, Sahara National, S1, Total T.V and Sahara NCR. And because of this wide reach several people have been able to avail the benefits of yoga simply being at home. Apart of performing yoga on television, he also has flair to write. His articles have been published in various magazines like Swagat, Asia-spa, outlook, Eternal solution, Arogya Sanjivini, Gati Rang, Grehlakshmi, DASH and Vivaha etc and newspapers like Times of India, Hindustan, Danik Bhaskar, Danik Jagran, Amar Ujala, Rashtriya Sahara, and Midday.
Suneel Singh has inherited yoga form his grandfather, who belonged to Varanasi (UP) and practiced yoga for 7 Decades. He has been teaching yoga from the last 21 years. He was trained in his early school days but later on he has received yoga teachers training course from Mantalai (J&K) in the year 1985 under the guidance of great Guru Swami Dhirender Brahamchari Ji and he has got Gold Medal. He has also done II Degree in Japanese Art Zin Shin Do Rekhi.
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Yoga for Fitness, Wellness, Mental health & a Flexible Body
August 29th, 2008
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Yoga for Fitness, Wellness, Mental health & a Flexible Body
Cass Naumann talks about yoga, the benefits of yoga and yoga meditation & demonstrates different yoga positions and poses.
A yoga workout can lower stress, improve health, increase mental wellness, give one a more flexible & sexy body.
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Cass has years of experience as a fitness instructor teaching yoga, kick boxing, pilates.
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