An individual experiences back pain when there is an insult to the muscles, ligaments, or tendons. Inappropriate body posture, lifting of heavy objects more than the sustainable ability of the body, fractures, and lack of exercising or excessive exercising are some of the common causes of back pain, which mostly affects the region of the lower spine. Commonly, back pain…
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Heart Transplant Treatment : Procedure, Costs & Hospitals
The heart is the pumping plant of the human body that pumps the blood throughout the body. Its circulatory system supplies oxygen along with other nutrients to the tissues and also removes carbon dioxide with other wastes. To simply put it, the heart helps in keeping the body tissues active and alive by providing them with nutrition and oxygen, or…
Read moreHow to check for skin cancer
When someone as young, fit and healthy as Hawks star Jarryd Roughead gets diagnosed with skin cancer, it raises more than a few questions. Recently, Carofy Health have received plenty of queries about skin cancer, how to check for it and what to do if you find a suspicious spot. Here are their answers to six of the most commonly asked questions….
Read moreFertility week
A healthy lifestyle is not just important for women trying to conceive. The way men live affects the quality of their sperm in a bunch of ways. And that affects your chances both of being able to conceive and having a healthy child – at birth and throughout their life. So what lifestyle factors are important to your fertility? Here…
Read moreDo we really need to take 10,000 steps every day?
Some people accumulate a lot fewer steps per day – for example, older people, those with a chronic disease, and office workers. And others do a lot more: children, runners, and some blue-collar workers. So the 10,000 goal is not suitable for everyone. Setting a lower individual step goal is fine as long as you try to add about 3,000…
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