A Certified Home Health Aide Can Allow A Patient To Remain At Home

By Audrey McGuire

A certified home health aide administers medical care to injured or ill individuals in the privacy of their own dwelling. However, such services are basic in nature and are not intended to replace medical care obtained from a licensed practitioner or physician. The demand for jobs of this type has significantly increased over the last 10 years, which experts expect is a trend that will keep going until 2016.

The goal of the aforementioned care is to help patients stay in their homes. The latter is preferable to most individuals when compared with the need to be placed in a long-term care facility. Home health aides can assist patients to perform their activities of daily living while maintaining their independence.

Certified aides are trained to perform a broad range of services. Some examples include taking the client's vital signs, administering oral medications, helping him or her with dressing and bathing, and assisting the person to ambulate or exercise. Depending on the state regulations in the area where the care is being given, some aides are also allowed to perform massages, change dressings, or operate ventilators.

The aforementioned individuals must perform their duties under the direct supervision of a doctor or licensed or registered nurse. They are not allowed to offer medical advice, or diagnose or treat diseases or conditions. However, if they notice anything unusual concerning the patient, they must report it to a doctor or nurse.

Due to the fact that many patients pay for such care with insurance, it is important for the aide to keep detailed records of the care provided. The agency then uses these records to bill the appropriate party. However, records are still kept on patients who pay for their care with their own money, as each individual must have a file with the health agency. These records are kept private for each patient and the latter are given copies of the care that was provided after each visit.

A written exam and 75 hours of field training is typically necessary in order for a person to become certified in this line of work. The skills learned include lifting techniques, a thorough understanding of every facet of personal care, and good communication skills so that one can work effectively with a network.

When pursuing such care for an individual who is homebound because of disease or disability, it is important to choose an agency carefully. Most home health companies are trustworthy; however, anyone should be screened carefully who will have future access to one's place of residence. To complete this task, one should obtain licensing information from any company he or she is considering, and research the background of the numerous agencies available. The latter is easy to accomplish online.

When a certified home health aide has been selected, the patient and his or her family should evaluate the person's performance for several weeks after the scheduled visits have begun. If the individual is completing his or her duties to the satisfaction of the family and patient, long-term arrangements can be made. If not, the client may need to request a different person. When the steps listed above are followed, it should not be difficult to find the most appropriate person for the job.

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At Last It Is Now Easy To Use Sleeping Pills

By Zebulen Riess

An important new study that appears in the June 8, 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine has found that middle-aged adults suffering from lack of sleep effects are at higher risk of developing high blood pressure. Hypertension contributes to 7 million deaths around the world each and every year. One third of American's are affected.

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In this latest work, University of Chicago researchers collected data such as blood pressure readings as well as other clinical, demographic and health variables on study subjects.

Even when you want to sleep, the cares of the day sometimes keep you from closing your eyes. In fact, according to the National Sleep Foundation, on any given night, slightly more than 1-4 Americans rate the quality of their night's sleep as either "fair" or "poor"

The researchers found that those who slept fewer hours are much more likely to have BP pressure readings than those who slept longer. These sleep-starved adults were also more likely to develop hypertension pressure over time.

After five years of the study, the team noted that each hour less of sleep was associated with a 37% increase in the odds of hypertension - both systolic (top) and diastolic (bottom) numbers were elevated.

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Insomnia is really a extensive expression that entails symptoms of sleeplessness and/or a sleep problem staying longer than just a 7-day period. Insomnia can mean a problem, or simply problems with sleeping.

"Laboratory studies of short-term sleep deprivation have suggested potential mechanisms for a causal link between sleep loss and hypertension."

In addition, experts say that many on-the-job accidents are caused in part by poor decisions and responses made by sleep-deprived workers.

Only a lucky 1% of subjects got more than 8 hours a night. Black men tended to get the fewest hours of sleep. "These two observations suggested the intriguing possibility that the well-documented higher blood pressure in African Americans and men might be partly related to sleep duration," the study authors conclude.

The team believes that sleep deprivation affects the stress response of the body and this can raise the risk of developing hypertension.

If you or your significant other, like a child, a family member or close friend has a problem sleeping, the first step is to identify the problem and to seek treatment as soon as possible. Remember, chronic sleep deprivation, no matter what the cause is dangerous and potentially fatal.

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After being deprived of sleep, many people are ready to answer any question as long as they'll be allowed to sleep. With little or no sleep, people feel sick. Their bodies are sluggish and uncoordinated, and their minds feel mush.

This study encourages anyone who's worried about lack of sleep effects on hypertension to ensure they have a regular sleep pattern, as well as taking some of the other steps experts recommend to keep your blood pressure under control.

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Finally Kicking Up into Handstand at 60!

by Patti Martin

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My yoga career and my introduction to Handstand began in 2006. I was attending a mixed-level weekly Iyengar yoga class (that means that beginners and more advanced students practice together). Within the first three months the teacher taught Handstand. I watched him do it, and then made an honest effort to repeat the actions and swing my legs up to the wall. Instead, I got one foot about one foot off the floor, gave a little hop, and landed with a small thud back to the floor. Hmmm…. He came over and offered to help me up. He grabbed a leg and began to lift it, and I cried out, “No, put me down. I am afraid.” He asked what I was afraid of. I said, “Falling on my head.” He said, “Why would you fall on your head?” I said, “My arms are not strong enough. My arms will buckle and I will fall on my head.” He said, “Okay, then we will belt your arms together over the elbows so that your arms cannot bend.” Damn! I could not argue with that. I still was afraid, but I decided to give it a try. With his help, up I went to the wall. It felt quite good! It was exhilarating being upside down bearing my body weight on my arms. He asked if he could walk away and I said yes. Other students were kicking up and coming back down repeatedly, but I knew that since I couldn’t kick up, I better stay there. My first stay was really quite long because I was also afraid to come down. When I did come down I sounded like a ton of bricks dropping to the floor.

Over the next five years I continued to go to classes that sometimes included handstands, and I would very seriously study the directions that a variety of teachers gave. I would say to myself, “Maybe I’ll get up today.” But I never did get up; in fact, I wasn’t even close. Many times teachers would leave me trying repeatedly to kick up until they saw that I was getting exhausted, and then they would come over and hoist me up. Just like my first time I would stay up a long time so that I would not have to kick up again. And I continued to sound like a ton of bricks hitting the floor as I came down.

During this five-year period I also developed “Handstand induced urinary urgency syndrome.” As soon as the teacher announced that we were to do Handstand, I would feel a great urgency to leave the practice room and use the restroom. With any luck the pose would be over by the time I got back, or, if not, at least I would have less time to futilely trying to kick up.

Then a couple of years later one of my teachers taught me to walk up the wall of a narrow hallway so that my feet were well over my head, and then swing my legs to the wall I was facing. I practiced this way for several years. I would enter Handstand this way, and then walk down the wall, move to another open wall, and try to kick-up. But there seemed to be no transferable skills. I was no closer to kicking up on my own.

It was also shown to me that you could lean a bolster against the wall and use the bolster for support of your head and back to kick up. I tried this for a couple of years with no success—I never got up this way.

Then about four years ago a teacher of mine taught us how to begin the process of coming off the wall in Handstand and balancing independently. She had us kick-up (in my case she hoisted me up) and then she instructed us to put our heads to the wall as we brought our legs away. I could do that, and I really loved having my head to the wall. It even helped me come down more lightly. But she made it clear, “Never, kick-up with your head to the wall!” I heard her, but the potential was so tantalizing. 

So I went home to the privacy of my own space, stuck my head and shoulders to the wall and kicked up independently. I was so happy! I promised myself I would do it everyday so I would not lose the skill, and I pretty much did so. However, I could not do it publicly in an Iyengar yoga class, because it was WRONG! I had to hide and be in the Handstand closet. This was the beginning of my sneaky period. I would time my entry until the teacher was as far away as possible, ideally with head turned away, place my head and shoulders to the wall, and use my head as the fulcrum to swing my legs up. I think my main teacher knew I was doing this, but was probably relieved that she did not have to hoist me to the wall. A few times I was caught at this, and was made to return to practice kicking up with my head away from the wall, and I was really hardly any closer than I had been at the beginning.

There were weeks and months where I would work every day on kicking up without my head to the wall, and if I was making progress, it was invisible to me because until your foot hits the wall, it is hard to tell how close or far away you are. My record one rainy winter morning was that I kicked up ineffectually for 45 minutes without success, which by the way made me very cranky all day.

As I struggled on I saw hundreds of other people kicking up for the first time and making it to the wall. Why them and why not me? They were not younger, or thinner, or more fit. They had not practiced more. They just did it. While I was apprenticing as a yoga teacher working under my mentor, one of my jobs was to help people up into Handstand. It was my job to hoist them to the wall. I must say I am very good at it because I know just the help that people need.! I am sure the students all thought I could do it, but I couldn’t.

Then last year my dear friend Susan Allen, who has also struggled with Handstand, taught me the technique that I use in this video.

Suddenly Handstand was accessible and fun for me. My 2016 New Year’s resolution was no more cheat-y Handstands—no more using my head as a pivot point. Instead, Susan showed me how to use a stack of Shoulderstand foams wrapped in mats to give enough height for my feet that my hips were held high enough that I could kick up and reach the wall. (About two years before I stood on a low end table and kicked up to the wall; not only did I not make it to the wall but I also nearly broke my leg as I fell down out of control and slammed my foot down into the end table breaking the table and almost my leg!)

I started with four foams as shown in the video on January 1st and slowly from January through June of 2016 I worked my way down from four foams to three, to two, to one. But then I stalled, and still could not kick off the floor to the wall. And you should know, that it was not a steady descent down the foams. I had good days and bad days I regressed for weeks and then progressed again. But in any case, a few months ago I was stalled at one foam. 

So it was still true that in class I needed to be helped up because I would no longer put my head to the wall. However, now I was “close” and also I was landing with control thanks to my foam works.

Then one day I was out taking a walk and I saw that someone had left a refrigerator shipping box on the sidewalk, and inside the box, was a large flat rectangular piece of foam about 1/3 the height of the Shoulderstand foams. What a treasure! I brought it home, wrapped it in a mat, and kicked up. Yes, it was the missing link! I was at the 1/3 foam for about seven weeks, and then one morning at about 6:30 a.m. I tried kicking up from the floor, and I DID IT! I DID IT! I KICKED UP OFF THE FLOOR LIKE A REGULAR YOGINI! HURRAH! Even though it was 6:30 a.m. I texted Susan right away and she texted me back ASAP. We celebrated! Thanks to the Susan Allen foam technique I had after 10 years kicked up into Handstand.

So to celebrate my 60th birthday, with Susan’s permission I am posting this video to share Susan’s technique. There is one Handstand for each decade I have been privileged to experience. For those of you who are reading this who aspire to Handstand, I offer you this method, but more importantly I want to testify that with steady, devoted, focused practice it is amazing what you can accomplish, especially if you have a dear friend like Susan Allen in your corner. I also recommend studying under a certified Iyengar yoga teacher before attempting this.

I want to thank my husband who has listened to my Handstand travails for ten long years, almost on a daily basis. Also, I want to thank my teachers who patiently taught me the mechanics of the pose, over and over and over. And hoisted me up to the wall year after year without complaint. I love you all for supporting me on this journey.

What is next? Well, lucky for me there are infinite ways to improve my Handstand. And also I need to learn to lead with the other leg. I started again using four foams because though I can now regularly kick up from the floor using my right leg, my left leg has “not gotten the memo.” And after that? Well, there is balancing in the middle of the room. I might have to save that for my 70th birthday!

Patti Martin is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher who teaches in workplaces, studios, and public classes 
in San Francisco and the Peninsula. She is a warm, encouraging, and upbeat teacher who inspires confidence in her students to explore their potential. Patti is inclusive and respects differences in students; she patiently nurtures the physical and mental evolution that comes with the practice of yoga. Through Patti’s own practice she has explored where restrictions occur in her body that create pain and imbalance, and has learned how to develop the awareness, strength, and flexibility to open these areas to greater ease and comfort. She shares this knowledge with her students.

Patti regularly studies with top Iyengar teachers in the Bay Area, and frequently attends Iyengar workshops with senior Iyengar teachers visiting the Bay Area from around the world. Patti formerly served on the board of directors for the Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California and is currently serving on the board of directors for the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States. See http://www.pattimartinyoga.com.

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Essential Oil Nasal Inhalers Offering Benefits At Home And On The Road

By Gregory Wilson

Aromatherapy is used in many countries and has been for centuries. The scents of the oils used have properties that can be relaxing, energizing, and healing. Diffusers are devices commonly utilized to spread the aromas in rooms but aren't always practical for when you are on the go. For this purpose and others, essential oil nasal inhalers can be the solution. These are compact and portable items that can be put into a purse, pocket, or wallet. You can choose from a variety of scent sticks based on the intended purpose. These sticks are easily replaced whenever needed.

There are many benefits to using aromatherapy. Scents of oils may be utilized for calming or energizing the body, easing cold symptoms, and more. All of the effects depends on what fragrances are combined together and how they are applied.

Oil diffusers are fairly common tools used by people who enjoy aromatherapy. However, these items can't be used everywhere. It is also more difficult to take them with you while traveling or running errands. However, there is another device that is quite convenient to use wherever you may be.

This item is known as the nasal inhaler. This is a compact product that can fit into a purse, pocket, car glove compartment, and various other small locations. There are a number of these items available and they do range a bit in size. However, most of these objects are quite compact and portable.

Because each fragrance and combination of oils may have a varying effect on the body, it is convenient to carry one for each need. For example, if you have trouble sleeping, you might want one to help relax you. However, you may also wish to have one to clear your sinuses if you have a cold virus. The list goes on. The size of these items is quite convenient for this reason and others.

There are certain kinds of oils used for specific purposes. Peppermint may be used for dual purposes such as relaxation or improving the ability to breathe. Lemon is often appreciated for its ability to energize the body, reduce the feelings of depression, as well as increase the level of concentration. Lavender may have similar uses as well as to help with insomnia.

The sticks that are used in these inhalers come in all sorts of fragrances. You may decide to have just one scent or several different ones. The sticks are easily replaced when the times comes. They are also quite cost efficient even when you use several different essential oil combinations.

Nasal inhalers that have use essential oils can offer convenient solutions for various situations. These items are compact so you can carry them with you wherever you go. There are numerous scents available. This enables you to select the types you need whether for relaxation, energy, and overall better health. You can find those fragrances that reduce the symptoms of cold viruses as well. The scent sticks for the inhalers are replaceable, making the objects quite cost efficient even with regular use.

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Qualities To Look At When Choosing A Back Specialist In Culver City

By Trisha Robinson

As individuals age, health complications such as back pain become more prevalent as an individual goes about his or her daily activities. Consequently, working on demanding activities becomes a daunting task for most adults since bending can trigger back issues. Visiting a qualified Culver City back pain specialist for treatment against such health complications is important, especially at an early stage. Considering the following aspects can help a person acquire the desired treatment from a proficient specialist.

Various medical practitioners have the expertise, training, and experience to treat back problems depending on the gravity of the problem. However, occurrence of back pain should be taken seriously and this requires that a victim visit his or her medical practitioner for further advice or treatment. A general doctor can recommend you to experts who are only concerned with issues relating to the back. Primarily, this is because specialists in back problems can undertake surgical procedures to eliminate the problem.

Looking at the level of training possessed by the prospective expert is a vital factor for consideration before settling for any expert. Primarily, this is because fraudulent or dishonest professionals exist in the medical field and chances of dealing with such experts are high. This case warrants the need to conduct an extensive background check of the expert to ascertain his or her proficiency in the particular field of operation.

Looking for an expert who is a member of a professional board or body within your area or nation is important. Mainly, this is because your welfare is more safeguarded when dealing with such a professional since his or her license can be terminated when he is proven beyond reasonable doubt to have engaged in malpractice. In addition, members of a professional body assure you of excellent treatment since they employ the latest and authorized treatment procedures.

Various experts operate their independent clinics, health centers or consultancy offices. Authorized specialists set up offices or clinics, which are equipped according to the laid down medical standards. Therefore, ensure that you select an expert who operates a clinic that meets all the stipulated regulations and undergoes regular checks from government and local authority officials.

Consider the kind of reputation the prospective specialist has among other experts as well as people around your area of residence. Avoid getting treatment from specialists who have a criminal record or charged with gross misconduct. In addition, experience is a critical attribute when looking for a good specialist for your complication. Experienced professionals are in a position to avoid trivial blunders common with in experienced individuals.

Different specialists are based and operate in distinct locations and states. However, individuals are highly recommended to give priority to only those individuals based and operating with their city. Accessing emergency treatment can be a daunting task especially when the prospective expert operates in another city.

Ensure that you conduct a comparison of fees charged by several professionals prior settling for the desired one. This allows you to gauge your financial capability and budget. On the same note, putting your health first before money is vital.

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A Look At Florida Motels

By Alta Alexander

When people want to travel to the Sunshine State and need a place to stay as soon as possible, they will want to look for lodging as soon as possible. By looking into Florida motels, men and women can make an excellent choice before they go. The entire vacation should be wonderful, and families should be excited to return as soon as they have some free time.

Getting some price quotes beforehand is nearly always the best way to go about things. In fact, when people are more in tune with the room rates, they can choose something that fits their budget. They can ensure that they are not breaking the bank. Many fancy hotels include bars, restaurants, and even fitness rooms that are open at all hours of the day and night.

Individuals will want to look at some maps of their destination city before they go. This way, they can find out exactly where the building is located. Most people will want to keep a map with them at all times so that they can easily navigate through their destination city once they arrive. Some maps will be considerably more detailed than others.

Making reservations is another important issue. In fact, when people book their rooms well in advance, they are much more likely to get better rates. If the hotel of their choice is located in a busy tourist areas during the peak travel season, the rooms are likely to fill up fast. Men and women who know their schedules beforehand should go ahead and make a reservation.

Once individuals have arrived at the hotel, the might very well need a way to get around. While public transportation is fine for some people, others will be interested in renting a car. Rental agencies abound in larger cities, and people can quickly find one and get the vehicle they need to move around the urban area without any issues at all.

Most reputable hotels have lovely suites that people might choose to stay in. These suites have extra rooms so that larger families or couples have more room to spread out while they are staying there. Most suites have nice kitchen areas where guests can cook food and store other products in the refrigerator so that they keep for longer periods of time.

Most good hotels will have housekeeping service on certain days of the week. Maids will come in and spruce up the room and ensure that everything is cleaned up correctly. They will also make the bed and change the sheets. Families who are staying at the hotel for more than one week will want to make sure that their living area is as clean as possible.

In the end, finding a reliable hotel does not have to be all that difficult. When people examine their options and do some research, they can choose a spot that will work for all involved. They can then enjoy their vacation without any issues going forward. When families next get the itch to take a trip, they should know exactly where to stay in the city.

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