As you may guess, I am quite new to this whole ebook marketing lark, so I am more than pleased that my first attempts at article writing and posting to reputable article submission websites are proving fruitful!
I have sucessfully posted articles here so far:
http://www.articlerich.com/Article/Back-Pain-and-Sciatica-/614855
http://www.articlerich.com/Article/Back-Pain-and-Osteoporosis/615698
http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/writing/the-lost-art-of-letter-writing-and-how-to-write-a-letter.html
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-Lost-Art-of-Letter-Writing--and-How-to-Write-any-type-of-Letter/798415
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-Lost-Art-of-Letter-Writing--and-How-to-Write-any-type-of-Letter/798471
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Back-Pain-and-Osteoporosis/798508
Can't believe I am now an actual bona-fide article writer! Woohoo!
The only thing that puzzles me now is.... exactly how do you successfully market ebooks on absolutely zero marketing budget? Any suggestions are greatly recieved!
MNewbold is a prolific writer who loves to write about family matters, health and fitness, food and nutrition, alternative therapies, and general well-being.For a comprehensive guide to manage your back pain by a team of experts in back pain and care, visit http://www.backpaincompendium.com or www.expertbackpain.weebly.com
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Lower Back Pain and Lumbago
Most people will experience back pain at some point in their lives, and probably the most common of back problems affecting the lower back is Lumbago.
Lumbago affects the muscles of the back and the pain experienced can vary greatly from severe pain to just a persistent dull ache. It is thought that the condition can be made worse by damp, cold weather, being overweight, having a poor posture, and excessive muscle strain due to pregnancy. Unfortunately, lumbago has the habit of intensifying with age, so it’s even more important for people to keep fit and healthy as they mature into old age.
Often the first experience of lumbago will be when a person is lifting heavy objects, or from bending and twisting suddenly, resulting in excruciating pain. It does not necessarily mean damage had been done to the spine itself, unless a person has experienced an injury to the back, which is quickly followed by low back pain. Lumbago is basically muscular in origin, so the symptoms can be alleviated or greatly reduced by strengthening the core muscles of the body, losing excess weight, and improving posture.
Most sufferers will turn to pain-killers to help relieve their discomfort in the first instance, but taking a warm bath with a little lavender oil can be really beneficial too. Aromatherapy massage can be a more holistic approach to dealing with recurrent lumbago, incorporating oils that help to relieve pain, such as St John’s wort, vervain, white willow, and comfrey.
Taking regular exercise is beneficial for both mind and body, but with lumbago it would be better to concentrate on exercises that strengthen the core muscles and improve posture, such as pilates, which advocates building and maintaining the back, abdominal and oblique muscles that make up the core. Think of you core as a natural girdle that pulls you in, straightens you up and protects your back.
We tend to slow down as we get older, and become less active than we were when we were younger, so making small changes to your every day routine can go a long way to improving your posture, general fitness and associated muscle strength, and lessening the symptoms of lumbago.
Try walking to work instead of taking the bus, or get off two stops earlier. Take the stairs wherever possible instead of using lifts and escalators. Park you car further away from your workplace so you can add a few minutes extra walking to your day. Go for a stroll at lunch-time instead of sitting at your desk. Buy a dog and walk it twice a day. Get the family
out into the countryside at weekends for a bit of exploring, or join a rambling club. Take up an exercise class, dance class, or join your local gym for some weight-training sessions a couple of times per week.
Whatever you choose to do, have fun doing it and you will be able to cope better with your lumbago.
MNewbold is a prolific writer who loves to write about family matters, health and fitness, food and nutrition, alternative therapies, and general well-being.
For a comprehensive guide to manage your back pain by a team of experts in back pain and care, visit http://www.backpaincompendium.com or www.expertbackpain.weebly.com
Lumbago affects the muscles of the back and the pain experienced can vary greatly from severe pain to just a persistent dull ache. It is thought that the condition can be made worse by damp, cold weather, being overweight, having a poor posture, and excessive muscle strain due to pregnancy. Unfortunately, lumbago has the habit of intensifying with age, so it’s even more important for people to keep fit and healthy as they mature into old age.
Often the first experience of lumbago will be when a person is lifting heavy objects, or from bending and twisting suddenly, resulting in excruciating pain. It does not necessarily mean damage had been done to the spine itself, unless a person has experienced an injury to the back, which is quickly followed by low back pain. Lumbago is basically muscular in origin, so the symptoms can be alleviated or greatly reduced by strengthening the core muscles of the body, losing excess weight, and improving posture.
Most sufferers will turn to pain-killers to help relieve their discomfort in the first instance, but taking a warm bath with a little lavender oil can be really beneficial too. Aromatherapy massage can be a more holistic approach to dealing with recurrent lumbago, incorporating oils that help to relieve pain, such as St John’s wort, vervain, white willow, and comfrey.
Taking regular exercise is beneficial for both mind and body, but with lumbago it would be better to concentrate on exercises that strengthen the core muscles and improve posture, such as pilates, which advocates building and maintaining the back, abdominal and oblique muscles that make up the core. Think of you core as a natural girdle that pulls you in, straightens you up and protects your back.
We tend to slow down as we get older, and become less active than we were when we were younger, so making small changes to your every day routine can go a long way to improving your posture, general fitness and associated muscle strength, and lessening the symptoms of lumbago.
Try walking to work instead of taking the bus, or get off two stops earlier. Take the stairs wherever possible instead of using lifts and escalators. Park you car further away from your workplace so you can add a few minutes extra walking to your day. Go for a stroll at lunch-time instead of sitting at your desk. Buy a dog and walk it twice a day. Get the family
out into the countryside at weekends for a bit of exploring, or join a rambling club. Take up an exercise class, dance class, or join your local gym for some weight-training sessions a couple of times per week.
Whatever you choose to do, have fun doing it and you will be able to cope better with your lumbago.
MNewbold is a prolific writer who loves to write about family matters, health and fitness, food and nutrition, alternative therapies, and general well-being.
For a comprehensive guide to manage your back pain by a team of experts in back pain and care, visit http://www.backpaincompendium.com or www.expertbackpain.weebly.com
Monday, 26 October 2009
Back Pain and Osteoporosis
Those who suffer from osteoporosis will know the ongoing risks and dangers they face everyday. Extra caution and care must be taken by the sufferer to prevent the falls, stumbles, trips and knocks that wouldn’t bother an average healthy person, but can often result in fractures or breaks to the bones of a person with osteoporosis.
With osteoporosis, the bones of the body lose their thickness and strength, resulting in them becoming more brittle and easier to break. It is quite often seen as a disease of the pensioner where shrinkage of the spine occurs, and the person quite literally seems to shrink, sometimes very rapidly. The typical ‘dowager’s hump’ is the excessive curvature of the upper part of the spine resulting from the collapse of the spinal column, which is caused by osteoporosis.
But osteoporosis does not only strike the elderly alone, as people of all ages can develop this condition through different factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, or a much reduced activity level through severe illness or injury, heavy drinking and smoking, eating a diet that is low in calcium, overactive thyroid gland, liver disease, or lack of oestrogen due to the menopause.
Women often suffer more from osteoporosis than men, often due to the rapid reduction of oestrogen during the menopause, and the condition affects more women than strokes, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, and breast cancer. About 40 - 50% of women aged between 50 to 75 suffer from some osteoporosis.
An injury to the spine can be debilitating and extremely painful, so what can be done to help reinforce and protect your spine, and other vulnerable bones and joints?
One obvious answer to help with this condition would be to increase calcium foods in the diet, or to add a calcium supplement in tablet or powder form. But don’t just narrow your thinking to just calcium containing dairy foods alone, such as milk, eggs, cheese and cream. There are other foods like green leafy vegetables, herbs, vitamins and minerals you can include that also contain sources of calcium, and some that complement your efforts by helping your body to absorb more calcium, to slow down the loss, or even keep a grip on to it for longer.
Try to increase, or introduce the following into your diet:Fish bones are a great source of natural calcium. Try to choose fresh or tinned fish where you can eat up the bones too.Magnesium may be beneficial in preventing the progression of osteoporosis. Try taking a supplement, adding brewers yeast, or eating foods rich in magnesium such as soyabeans, sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts, etc..
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, so you will be getting extra by eating oily fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon, which you are eating to get the calcium from the bones as listed above. Vitamin D is not called the sunshine vitamin for nothing, and by far the best way of getting a dose is by taking a long walk in the sunshine. Vitamin D is produced in the skin as a natural reaction to sunlight, and the body gets most of its Vitamin D in this way.
Increasing your intake of boron is beneficial. Boron is a trace mineral, which can be found in plants. Recent research has indicated that post-menopausal women who increase their intake of boron can prevent calcium loss in bones, so consuming an extra serving of organically grow fruit and root vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, beetroot, turnips and parsnips can help keep your bones healthy. (Good quality soil is rich in boron, so make sure you buy organic wherever possible).
If you have fluoride in your drinking water, this can help by stimulating new bone growth.
Tea drinkers may already be aware of the health benefits of this popular beverage, but if you like herbal tea too, you may be pleased to know that a cup of comfrey leaf tea can aid in healing. Calcium containing herbal teas include parsley, kelp, dandelion leaf, horsetail, and nettle.
Adding or increasing these herbal teas can be very beneficial to osteoporosis sufferers.
Low or no-impact exercise is recommended for sufferers of osteoporosis, such as swimming, walking, and gentle stretching. Weight-bearing exercises such as weight training with light resistance machines or dumbells can also help to keep the muscles and tendons strong that support the spine and joints.
With back problems, keeping your core muscles strong and tight is vitally important if you want to protect your spine from further injury, so taking a regular stretch, pilates or light yoga class or course would be a great way of achieving a strong core, while trying to avoid jarring exercises such as jogging and high-impact aerobics which could result in injury.
M Newbold is a prolific writer who loves writing about family matters, health and fitness, food and nutrition, alternative health, natrual remedies, and general well-being.For a comprehensive guide about managing osteoporosis and other back problems by a team of experts in back pain care and management, visit:http://www.expertbackpain.weebly.com orwww.backpaincompendium.com
With osteoporosis, the bones of the body lose their thickness and strength, resulting in them becoming more brittle and easier to break. It is quite often seen as a disease of the pensioner where shrinkage of the spine occurs, and the person quite literally seems to shrink, sometimes very rapidly. The typical ‘dowager’s hump’ is the excessive curvature of the upper part of the spine resulting from the collapse of the spinal column, which is caused by osteoporosis.
But osteoporosis does not only strike the elderly alone, as people of all ages can develop this condition through different factors such as a sedentary lifestyle, or a much reduced activity level through severe illness or injury, heavy drinking and smoking, eating a diet that is low in calcium, overactive thyroid gland, liver disease, or lack of oestrogen due to the menopause.
Women often suffer more from osteoporosis than men, often due to the rapid reduction of oestrogen during the menopause, and the condition affects more women than strokes, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, and breast cancer. About 40 - 50% of women aged between 50 to 75 suffer from some osteoporosis.
An injury to the spine can be debilitating and extremely painful, so what can be done to help reinforce and protect your spine, and other vulnerable bones and joints?
One obvious answer to help with this condition would be to increase calcium foods in the diet, or to add a calcium supplement in tablet or powder form. But don’t just narrow your thinking to just calcium containing dairy foods alone, such as milk, eggs, cheese and cream. There are other foods like green leafy vegetables, herbs, vitamins and minerals you can include that also contain sources of calcium, and some that complement your efforts by helping your body to absorb more calcium, to slow down the loss, or even keep a grip on to it for longer.
Try to increase, or introduce the following into your diet:Fish bones are a great source of natural calcium. Try to choose fresh or tinned fish where you can eat up the bones too.Magnesium may be beneficial in preventing the progression of osteoporosis. Try taking a supplement, adding brewers yeast, or eating foods rich in magnesium such as soyabeans, sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts, etc..
Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, so you will be getting extra by eating oily fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon, which you are eating to get the calcium from the bones as listed above. Vitamin D is not called the sunshine vitamin for nothing, and by far the best way of getting a dose is by taking a long walk in the sunshine. Vitamin D is produced in the skin as a natural reaction to sunlight, and the body gets most of its Vitamin D in this way.
Increasing your intake of boron is beneficial. Boron is a trace mineral, which can be found in plants. Recent research has indicated that post-menopausal women who increase their intake of boron can prevent calcium loss in bones, so consuming an extra serving of organically grow fruit and root vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, beetroot, turnips and parsnips can help keep your bones healthy. (Good quality soil is rich in boron, so make sure you buy organic wherever possible).
If you have fluoride in your drinking water, this can help by stimulating new bone growth.
Tea drinkers may already be aware of the health benefits of this popular beverage, but if you like herbal tea too, you may be pleased to know that a cup of comfrey leaf tea can aid in healing. Calcium containing herbal teas include parsley, kelp, dandelion leaf, horsetail, and nettle.
Adding or increasing these herbal teas can be very beneficial to osteoporosis sufferers.
Low or no-impact exercise is recommended for sufferers of osteoporosis, such as swimming, walking, and gentle stretching. Weight-bearing exercises such as weight training with light resistance machines or dumbells can also help to keep the muscles and tendons strong that support the spine and joints.
With back problems, keeping your core muscles strong and tight is vitally important if you want to protect your spine from further injury, so taking a regular stretch, pilates or light yoga class or course would be a great way of achieving a strong core, while trying to avoid jarring exercises such as jogging and high-impact aerobics which could result in injury.
M Newbold is a prolific writer who loves writing about family matters, health and fitness, food and nutrition, alternative health, natrual remedies, and general well-being.For a comprehensive guide about managing osteoporosis and other back problems by a team of experts in back pain care and management, visit:http://www.expertbackpain.weebly.com orwww.backpaincompendium.com
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