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For Women, Osteoporosis Leaves Physical and Emotional Scars
To the outside world, Daniella Dayoub Forrest could be mistaken for a professional athlete. Every day, she’s intentional about what she puts into her body and the exercises she performs — and she’s lived this way for close to two decades. But behind the 44-year-old’s difficult workout schedule and strict eating regimen is a diagnosis that led her here. When she was 27, she was snowboarding with friends when she had a minor fall. She says most people would have Healthy
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It Wasn’t Muscle Damage: It Was Four Fractures and Osteoporosis
As told to Liz Sauchelli It had been two weeks since I’d slipped on the front stairs of my home and my back was still in excruciating pain. The emergency room doctor I’d seen after my fall thought I had muscle damage and had sprained my back. He prescribed anti-inflammatories and painkillers without taking an X-ray. At the time, I thought I was in too much pain for it to be a sprain, but I took his word and went Healthy
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The Complex Crisis of Period Poverty
In the 1990s, Laura Strausfeld was a law student at Columbia University in New York. One day, she went to the drug store to buy tampons. Strausfeld picked up a Chapstick at the counter thinking she could pay for it with the leftover change. That wasn’t the case: Tampons were more expensive than she thought because they had a sales tax. Chapstick, however, did not. This got Strausfeld’s lawyer-sense tingling. « The Chapstick was considered to have a medicinal use and Healthy
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Supportive Measure
One of the most used online tools from The Center for Health Design’s website is the Knowledge Repository (KR), a searchable, user-friendly library of healthcare design resources. The KR grew out of frequent requests our research team would receive asking for help in finding credible research citations on a variety of topics. With each request, a member of our team would search our internal database of studies and provide a list of appropriate journal citations. By partnering with the American healthcare
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Bright Ideas
A linguist by education, Kate O’Neill has studied more than a dozen languages. Now, as founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory and consultancy firm committed to improving human experience at scale, she spends most of her time talking “tech” with industry, business, and civic leaders to help build data-led and technology-driven human experiences. On Sunday, Oct. 24, she’ll kick off the 2021 HCD Expo with her keynote presentation, “A Future So Bright.” Here, O’Neill answers a few healthcare
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Naomi Osaka Revealed She Loves This Percussion Massager & It’s 28% off at Nordstrom Right Now
Whether you’re a four-time Grand Slam champion or a novice beginner in your sport of choice, recovery and treating your body with respect is key to any form of athletics. If there’s one person who knows that, it’s definitely Naomi Osaka. The tennis star recently opened up about her wellness regimen and how “crucial” recovery is to her training. One recovery tech/tool brand that she swears by is Hyperice, and their Hypervolt Bluetooth Percussion Massage Device is currently 28 percent shek
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Permissive Parenting: Is It Bad Or Good For Our Children?
Basically, there are four types of parenting styles and permissive parenting is one of them. Every parent has a different style of handling or disciplining their child. Being a parent, we tend to provide happiness to our children. Sometimes, our intentions are not wrong but our parenting style goes off the track. And, whenever you feel like your parenting style is not on the right track, you should change your parenting style. Talking about permissive parenting, it is characterized by calmsage
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Pride Health Center Opens In New York
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi (Bronx, N.Y.) opened Pride Health Center for LGBTQ patients in the Bronx. The new comprehensive health center is located on the first floor of the hospital and offers a variety of services, including primary care, adolescent care, OB/GYN, family planning services, behavioral health, dental services, ophthalmology, hormone therapy, and testing services. Social work support will also be available for patients to assist with continuity of care. healthcare
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Don’t spike us – it’s time to shift the blame
As incidents of drink spiking increase, so does victim blaming. Here we highlight a need for change and share the campaigns doing just that It happened to me at University, on a night out celebrating a friend’s birthday. After ordering my first drink at the bar and a visit to the ladies, my memories of the night come back in disembodied flashes. There’s a flash of me bouncing off of people like a pinball machine, a flash of me smoking happi
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What is Mood Lability? How to Cope With It?
Understanding Emotional Lability What is Mood Lability?What are the Symptoms of Mood Lability?Factors Responsible for Mood LabilityWays to Cope with Mood Lability Have you ever met someone who always has an inappropriate reaction to things? A standard example of such inappropriate behavior is when they go all serious in a funny situation and crack jokes or begin laughing in a serious situation. Sometimes you can have an opposite reaction to a stressful situation because your mind activates the reaction formation calmsage
octobre 19, 2021Like
Child Divorce Counseling: How to Help Your Child
No matter how amicable the divorce is, if children are a part of the picture, divorce is going to affect them. Divorce causes a lot of change in children’s worlds, so it’s important to acknowledge the feelings and emotions they’re experiencing along the way. While you move through the stages of divorce, your child may also need some assistance. Wondering how to help a child deal with a divorce? Whether you seek child divorce counseling, or you’re able to help talk
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Upcoming Webinar Addresses Surface Selection For Infection Control
Healthcare Design will present the webinar “Surface Selection and Its Impact on Health & Wellbeing,” sponsored by Hanex Solid Surfaces by Hyundai L&C USA. The presentation is scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 28. It will be led by Linda Lybert, president/healthcare surface safety expert at Healthcare Surface Consulting LLC (Stevensville, Mont.). Lybert will highlight a method for selecting surfaces that support infection prevention using a checklist of Seven Aspects for Surface Selection that guides architects and designers healthcare